Venetian Plastering A Wall | Beginners GUIDE TO Polished Plastering

This is a game changer! I've plastered my first wall in Venetian plaster and I'll show you exactly how I did it! But it's tricky...

I've been practising for about 2 months now and I finally had an opportunity to test out my Venetian plastering skills on a full wall. Now, I'm not saying I'm a pro...I've got a hell of a long way to go.

But I've got to a point now where I know the basics. I know how the product works and I'm actually getting a half decent finish! Which is why I want to show you the full process on how it works and outline the main differences between this and traditional plastering.

They are 2 totally different beasts!!

And I want to show you what it's all about. So get involved!

If you liked this video then please like and subscribe because I'll be sharing my journey as I go. I really want to master this skill and I'll be showing you everything. So make sure not to miss it!!

Thanks for watching.

I'll see you on the next one.

Cheers.
Blaine Gray,
Plastering For Beginners.

[krispal]

Hi, thanks for uploading a video. If I may I 'd like to share my experience with polished plaster. I've done only 12-15 venetian plaster jobs, so I wouldn't call myself an expert.
1. Technique. Quartz primer firstly, 3 coats of plaster with polishing, a wax to enhance the colour and protect the plaster.
2. Advice. Covering entire room might be overwhelming for some people, even financially.
Timeless, natural colours: white, grey, stone are always safer if you plan to sell a house.
Polished plaster looks the best if it is a feature of the room: a part or entire wall with fireplace, pillars, round columns ( my hardest job ), window, door or lights surroundings, etc.
3. Artistic fun: do not be afraid to experiment: use vertical or diagonal strokes only, 90% white plaster with 10% grey plaster lines or strokes . I have always created a design on a board before it was apply on a wall. Ones I was asked to create a "crazy paving" with strokes of various directions and that was a real artistic fun.
4. Conclusion. Polished plaster is the job I miss the most. Unfortunately it isn't popular in typical houses and many people even haven't heard or seen it.
You have done a great job. Wish you all the best.
Thanks

[HappyTyke]

Hi, I've been plastering for about 33 years, I did some Venetian plastering in August last year on a bar we'd been working on, I'd never done it before and was pretty worried about making a mess, but it actually turned out pretty good, and I really enjoyed it. It's a skill in itself, very different to standard plastering, but there's so much to learn, and so many different techniques. I'm looking at joining a course in the near future. Expensive but I think it will pay for itself. I've already been offered some work, but just need to improve my skills a lot.
Excellent video by the way, it's good to watch someone else learning from scratch. Cheers.

[howtoassembleyourfurniture]

Great job! I am a beginner and working on my first wall after a dozen+ sample boards. I've watched a lot of high polish venetian plaster demo videos. The majority of them are using sample boards so they don't address how to blend subsequent areas of the final coat into previous areas, which have already been burnished or slightly burnished. The few that do show portions of a whole wall being done are shown from a distance and don't mention or show the transitions very well. Your video is the best I have found and most suited to my experience, although I don't even have the plastering experience. Thank You!
It looks like you do a burnish (at least a preliminary one) right over the edge of a third coat section. Then as you move on to the adjacent section, you cross over onto the previously burnished area for what looks to be as much as six inches? Of course I can't tell how much material you are leaving there. Then you give that section a pre-burnish and go back to the previous section to do a final burnish. Would you say that is about correct? Do you stop before you get to the overlap area? Do you avoid the overlap area altogether until you come back to do the final burnish?
From what I have watched and read and witnessed myself, applying product (FirmoLux Grassello Authentic Venetian Plaster) over burnished areas usually results in disaster (peeling). I have the first coat on my wall and I can see the edges of my sections. I am terrified to proceed because I am very slow (I think that is the main reason I am not blending well even on unburnished areas). On a test panel, I can blend a fresh 3rd coat to a burnished area if I leave the edge of it unburnished. Sometimes it leaves a little foggy area that might buff out with wax. But controlling that over a six or eight foot long edge seems impossible!
So have you continued to work with this process? Have you had the peeling problem? Do you have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

[cogliostronecro]

Great work man! I really want to see you do a black wall.

[tuurkishman]

That wall looked top notch, for a first time thats some skill 👌

[squidlings]

I likes it. I'd never even heard of venitian plaster but now I wants it. 😊

[jigsclarkeguitar]

Hi mate
Do u add the ink to it or does it come aready the colour in the tub?

[potter]

Try applying a wax when polishing at the end Blaine, this is what is used by venetian plasterers to give aided water protection and a super marble finish. I think it is bees wax but not sure there are a few rypes people use.

[ranjitpatel]

Thank you from Leicester I'm going to have a go.

[shodan]

Wow just then I think I got plastering down they come out with another level can't wait to try

[antolinsoldadocamps]

Great to see you learning, I am learning myself now. How do you mix the pigment?

[epmonster]

I love seeing venetian plaster, never tried it myself but it looks amazing. Definitely following this journey with you mate, keep up the great content 😁👌🏻

[MarkMichalowski]

Loving this series, Blaine!
On a sorta-related note... after skimming the hall and stairs and landing in the house I've just moved out of (took me forever, first plastering job ever but it turned out waaay better than I'd have expected!), I thought I'd experiment on a section of wall with plastering _white emulsion paint_ !
I know, sounds mental - but it gave a glossy, mirror-like finish (and it was _matt_ emulsion!), a bit like Venetian plaster. It looked a bit of a mess, with squirly grey marks in it from the trowel, but with your eyes shut it felt lovely!

[jonathanclayton]

Great videos as always Blaine. Nice one

[Harkendown]

Very interesting, and exciting. What is the final thickness?

[briancody]

Love your videos 👍 could you recommend the best training centre in the UK to learn how to do this for a living?

[anthonyconti]

Been looking forward to this ! Looks like you got it down mate !! 👌

[elliottdebell]

Nice dude! I went down this rabbit whole a few years back. Defiantly will be following on your journey and will hopefully to inspire me to finish my walls I had planned. 👍🏼

[Starbuck]

hi Blain, good job on the wall. Just a little advice prep the wall before applying the venetian plaster with the right primer and base coat then the colour can go on and also masking tape around the edges from the beginning.

[samuelwatkins]

Wicked videos! You got any videos on dot dabbing plaster boards?