Plaster and Plastering; Mortars and Cements, How to Make, and How to Use : Being a Complete Guide for the Plasterer in the Preparation and Application of All Kinds of Plaster, Stucco, Portland Cement, Hydraulic Cements, Lime of Tiel, Rosendale and Other Ce

Excerpt from Plaster and Plastering; Mortars and Cements, How to Make, and How to Use: Being a Complete Guide for the Plasterer in the Preparation and Application of All Kinds of Plaster, Stucco, Portland Cement, Hydraulic Cements, Lime of Tiel, Rosendale and Other Cements, With Useful and Practical Information on the Chemistry

There are very few manuals written for the plasterer, indeed, book makers, as a rule, seem to think that plasterers need no instructions; this, however, is a mistake; the art of plastering requires just as much skill and knowledge as the art of carpentry or masonry, and the field for improvement is just as extensive and as rich in results, if well cultivated, as in other and more pre tentions pursuits.

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