StuccoAir lime (CL)
Stuc vénitien
The same gesture taken to a polish: a very fine marble flour, worked with the iron until the gloss of marble comes up.
Stucco lustro lining the Small Ballroom of Dresden’s Residenzschloss: marble that is not marble, polished until it throws the chandelier back.
Photo SchiDD · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
At a glance
- Water
- Splashes
- Outside
- Indoors
- Floor
- Walls only
- Upkeep
- Periodic
- Vapour
- Vapour-open
What it is made of
Lime putty and very fine marble flour, pigments; 2–3 extremely thin coats, waxed at the end.
Application
The support
A perfectly smooth ground — every bump shows in the shine. Fine lime render, or a sanded filling primer over plaster.
Tools
Round-cornered Venetian spatula, steel trowel, wool cloth for the wax.
Steps
- 1Two or three very thin coats, laid in short crossed strokes, varying the pigment load.
- 2Burnishing: run the spatula flat, pressing, until the surface turns to a mirror.
- 3Wax, then buff with the cloth.
Drying
A few hours between coats; wax once fully dry.
The trade’s general sequence, at about 20 °C. Where a producer publishes its own data sheet, that sheet wins.
Price
2 products from 2 producers
Cheapest pot
18.59 €
1 kg
Per kilo, from
5.78 €
Per m², from
not published
| Product | From | €/kg · €/L | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stuc vénitien en pâteBiologement | 18.59 € | 12.32 €/kg | — |
| DECO – Estuco de cal en pastaCom-Cal | 37.69 € | 5.78 €/kg | — |
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
The gloss is brought back with wax; it scratches, and it dislikes repeated splashing.
- Demands · Periodic
- Vapour-open