Does anyone have at the top of their head or in a handy reference book the formula for browncoat or hardcoat plasters? How many parts portland cement, lime, sand, etc.
I was breaking tile off of the kitchen wall in my 1927 cottage in Baltimore, and some topcoat and browncoat came with it. I’m thinking it would be easier to just replaster the 2 sq. ft. area than try to piece in some drywall or cement board.
Does browncoat have to have hair (kind of hard to come by these days)? Any substitute?
Any web links with this kind of information? Google didn’t turn up anything that I could see. I also tried searching this forum on “browncoat” but didn’t find a formula.
Is this how you’d do the job? Any retail products that you’d recommend instead?
Thanks for taking the time to help me.
-Kevin Zembower
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Stop by the house and I have some extra Struct-O-Lite and Diamond Imperial I can give you for the brown and finish coats, respectively. That's what most people use around here. Just add water. Kinda like using a Betty Crocker Cake Mix instead of "from scratch" but it works.
Thanks for your kind offer. I checked your profile, but I'm not sure where your location of "WNC" is. If it's western North Carolina, I'll stop by the next time I'm down your way.
Thanks for the two brand names. I haven't see them at Home Depot or Lowes, but I'll go looking for them.
Thanks again for your help.
-Kevin
>I haven't see them at Home Depot or Lowes, but I'll go looking for them.
You'll have better luck at a drywall supplier or other material supplier. Bags are a little big for just a 2' area. And other guys here may have better ideas on patching plaster--in fact, use the infamous Prospero search engine to look up plaster, and you'll see a bunch of threads on repairing it. I have that stuff around from whole new walls rather than patches.
Yeah, WNC is western NC.