Applying plaster is easy with the right tools!
Rodney Volkmar built this 130 foot strawbale wall. The first coat was applied in less than six hours. The crew took turns mixing, spraying and troweling to help the project move along quickly.
Note that the wall was built with a layer of tar paper and chicken wire on top. This helps to shed water off to the sides instead of soaking into the bales.
Pamela Volkmar uses the stucco sprayer to spray the straw bale stucco fence, while David trowels.
A sakcrete mason’s mix was used to save mixing and application time with the (stucco) plaster sprayer. A mortar mixer is the preferred machine for mixing plaster and stucco. You can recognize a mortar mixer by the rotating paddles. This will give a smoother mix with less water. A concrete mixer can also be used but will be more work and not mix as nice. You can spot a concrete mixer because the outside drum rotates.
The finished strawbale wall was stained with natural pigments to look great!
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Stucco & Mortar Sprayers
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If you want to learn how to stucco, or want to apply stucco or mortar to a wall or strawbales, you will like this stucco sprayer for spraying traditional plaster, lime and natural earth plaster, and stucco and mortar mixes.
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