When Geronimo and Freddy started rendering the internal walls of my room, we were very excited. What had been for so long an unfinished adobe brick and stone space, began to look more like a room in a home.
The contours of the archways took on form as did the rounded curves of the walls.When cracks started appearing in the drying render we were alarmed, but were assured that it was normal.
The problem was that, normally, the walls would be finished in gesso (plaster) and the cracks would be filled. We were going to put another skim coat of fine earth render on top and this needed a firm base. .
The whole lot had to be chipped off. We had to find a way to work out together how to render the walls so that they would not crack and would stand the test of time.
We found some fine clay near the river bed below our property, and after bringing it up to the land, we conducted some tests using different mixes and seeing how they looked with a coat of lime wash.
We used the best result on the inside of the dome. Ed waited anxiously for it to dry, hoping for no cracks this time.
It was perfect, and the inside of the dome ceiling looked fantastic.
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