PaintAir lime (CL)
Peinture à la chaux
The same material as a badigeon, sold ready-mixed and rolled on: more opaque, more even, and less alive.
Mykonos: facades whitened again every year, in a tradition that was the tradition of lime.
Photo Julian Lupyan · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
At a glance
- Water
- Steam only
- Outside
- Sheltered
- Floor
- Walls only
- Upkeep
- Periodic
- Vapour
- Vapour-open
What it is made of
Lime putty, mineral fillers, pigments and workability additives, batched at the factory for two coats without dilution.
Application
The support
A sound, cohesive support. On plaster or plasterboard, a mineral bonding primer; over old acrylic paint, the primer the maker prescribes.
Tools
Medium-pile roller or wide brush, tray, masking tape.
Steps
- 1Stir the tin thoroughly: the fillers settle.
- 2First coat, lightly thinned if the data sheet says so.
- 3Second coat neat, crossing, without overloading.
Drying
12–24 h between coats; gentle washing possible after a few weeks.
The trade’s general sequence, at about 20 °C. Where a producer publishes its own data sheet, that sheet wins.
Price
4 products from 2 producers
Cheapest pot
10.60 €
1 L
Per kilo, from
not published
Per litre, from
5.54 €
Per m², from
4.78 €
| Product | From | €/kg · €/L | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pintura de Cal InteriorCom-Cal | 10.60 € | 5.54 €/L | — |
| Pintura de Cal ExteriorCom-Cal | 14.40 € | 6.48 €/L | — |
| Peinture à la chaux pour intérieur & extérieurOrnaretti | 69.00 € | — | 4.78 € |
| Veladura de calCom-Cal | 116.46 € | 11.65 €/L | — |
Material prices incl. VAT as published by this catalogue’s producers, samples excluded. Labour is never included, and a price per m² only exists where the producer publishes a coverage.
Upkeep
A damp cloth on a fresh mark; it does not really wash, and it is touched up by recoating.
- Demands · Periodic
- Vapour-open