Lime Plastering the BIGGEST Room in Our House (8 Days Work) - Portugal Property Renovation 

This is one of the most comprehensive stone house hemp-crete insulation projects undertaken and will be used by those wanting to do something similar in the future, no doubt. Excellent workmanship indeed.

I think you’ve got the hang of it now. Those walls are looking great.🎉

Rounded edges look soft and inviting, almost cushiony, while the exposed stones resemble bear prints in snow. Bravo!

Hi. I might be able to help on your inside corners. Take a 3-4 inch trowel, put your mix in the corners from top to bottom and then run your corner trowel from top to bottom in one motion holding the bottom of the trowel out just a little bit. Don't use the corner trowel for installing just for shaping. If it looks good leave it until it drys , if not run the trowel again, don't worry about the outer edge yet. After it drys take a flat trowel and feather edge the outer edge. Don't be scared to go thick in the corners and maybe a little wetter. That's what I do for drywall. Hope this helps. GL. Cheers from Canada.

What a fantastic job you've done on a very difficult surface wall. I agree, leave the features stone colour!

Do you sometimes just take a look at everything you have accomplished and heave a satisfying sigh of joy and relief??? 🥰❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦

Love the ‘rustic charm’ of the walls. I could not help but think of all the potters/ ceramic artists that would be impressed by these walls.

I think you have got it, I love the way your house is evolving. It is going to be stunning, I hope you both take the time out to enjoy the fruits of your labour 👏👏👏

You can really see the house coming to shape now the walls are being done. She will be a beautiful, comfortable home.

Someday if you ever get “done”, you’ll absolutely marvel at yourselves and ALL the WORK you did!!

In baking the order you put things together and blend them is extremely important.... You will get an entirely different product... I went to culinary school and the science of baking is absolute. So it makes total sense that you got a different product when the order was changed...

You're both perfectionists can't wait to see you living in this so beloved home 💗

You can make a HEMP purse out of a sow's ear! Keep up the Hard work ! You EQUITY Slaves.... Turning your challenge into a work of ART!

I admire your work and determination. I saw that you are having some difficulty spreading the product. The dough seems to have little water in it and is therefore hard, making it difficult to spread. It also dries faster and when you apply the sponge it also becomes more difficult. Sorry for my English, I got help from Google😊 .Keep going.

As you don’t have a 4 year apprenticeship under your belt. I think you have done a great job.

You two have my favorite Portugal youtube channel. This music is super soothing.

Love the curved edges rather than the 90˚ sharp edges on corners. They are far more organic and pleasing to the eye. The knowledge you pass on is invaluable for those of us with the work ahead of us.

I know how you feel about the self criticism when you are trying to get the best job possible. When it's done others will marvel at it's beauty but you know where the imperfections are. Don't worry, that fades quickly and you will love it.

Good morning, Kylie and Guy. Good job on the plastering, Kyle! I’m amazed at your patience👏👏👏👏👏

So pleased you got some positive feedback- I was really hoping you would. You’ve done a brilliant job and worked so hard. I think it’s normal that when you learn new skills to do your own job … that the best time to start would be when you’ve finished and learned everything…. but you seem to be getting great results despite that. Well done guy 👏🏻

You are getting really good at plastering! You'll be a master plasterer by the time the house is finished! Love it!

What a wonderful thing is plaster. Mind you I certainly see why people forced their aesthetic responses out of the way to make that ghastly stippling on ceilings acceptable. The sheer magnitude of the task makes those mental gymnastics reasonable. As well, for ceilings the bent back and arms raised work must be so much harder and must be torture on the body.You are such an indomitable couple ,so admirable.Your house is going to be absolutely sound for many many years to come.❤

I think your plastering skills are REALLY quite good now Guy. I'm really impressed. Well done.

so first, can't believe I watched a half hour of a guy plastering and really enjoyed it. :) Second, bit of trivia - orchestral conductors usually live very long lives and it's because the act of conducting is very good cardio. I kept thinking of that with all the plastering you're doing, so there's that :) Thank you for sharing your journey.

Just saying what everyone has said already Guy…. Really impressive 8 day project …. and the results are brilliant !!! 👏👏👏👏 Durban SA🇿🇦

Your perseverance is remarkable! The walls look great! I do hope you will be cooking and relaxing in this room very soon. You both deserve to enjoy it. I love Kylie's "bye" at the end.

I am wondering if, in the future, the door you plastered around will become a window? Great job, as always!🇨🇦 🍻

It's always so encouraging to watch your videos. I love how you show the step by step process. It's always a slow go to complete projects and it's encouraging to see how you do it. We often rush through but you take it one step at a time and that helps show us that we are not behind.

It all looks fantastic and a credit to you. If walls had feelings, they would feel cherished 🥰

Guy, the kitchen looks great! I think you've found your niche. A professional would be proud of your work. The home is going to be amazing

Hey guys, not sure if it's been suggested yet as I don't have the patience to read more than a few comments down 😂 When you are going to do the limewash and need to cover the exposed stones, you cover it with plastic and then carefully use painters tape around the edges to secure the plastic and also define your lines. If the stone isn't as delicate, you can use masking tape, which is generally cheaper, instead, and then the painters tape on the outer edges only. This method is used for masking in various mediums and I think it would work just as well with what you are doing vs. spending extra time trying to work around it or using excessive painters tape to block it. Also, if you want to try it, as it would work awesome, secure a piece of denim (old jeans) to the top of the sponge float. The denim will keep the sponge from breaking down and it will give you a finer float finish. Fingers crossed you can move in before the end of the year!

Radiused corners ..WILL TEST YOU.., you guys have tackled a rehab..and your devotion to aesthetics , structure , materials , method and LEARNIG ALL.. BRAVO..! Scrubbing rubbing polishing..oh my

Great job. I love the natural colour. The detail around the stones is beautiful.

What a beautiful finish!

Just a thought have u tried wetting the corner float, ur doing brilliant tho

Agree re: mix order - I learnt it's always best to mix the lime ( even if it's just a lime putty that you're letting down with water), and give it 10-15 mins to fatten, then add the hemp next, and give another 5-10 mins mixing before adding any pozzolan or extras like sand. It feels ridiculous waiting around for the first mix of the day, but it soon gets into a rhythm and there's always plenty of tidying up & cleaning to do while waiting! Walls are looking good, I think you're going to be really pleased with them once you've had a day or two away from it.

Having attempted plastering myself I can appreciate how difficult it is but you have done a grand job so give yourslef a pat on the back!

The comparison of an unfinished work to a completed wall is amazing. Liked how you had close up working on the wall with the large sponge float interesting to see the difference as you work. Thanks

My goodness, that's been a long hard project. Looks really great! Well done.

This was a soothing morning meditation to watch. The music. The timelapse. The satisfaction of the end results. Thank you for sharing.

It's good to get the biggest one out of the way. Having got your hand in, hopefully the remainder will go easier and quicker.

Guy, you seem a little down about your performance. It looks great. Keep up the good work.

Aim for Valentine’s Day and what a treat it will be to move in a smidge sooner… say February 8 (my birthday 😉) Looks FABULOUS!!!

Bare hand plastering looks tiring but in the end, beautiful. Well done lady, well done. 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Use a desert spoon for the internal corners, wet it first. 👍🏻

Considering you 're not a pro I think that turned out very well indeed. The curves and finishing are excellent . You're getting there!!

Thank you for this great post, with yet another job very well done. One foot in front of the other, as they say. Your home's going to look and feel absolutely amazing! That's such a wonderful reward after all of this hard work It looks like another holiday may be due. Take care, Kylie and Guy!

The walls look great! Please remember that you will be the most critical of your work than anyone who comes to visit. The imperfections give it more character, in my opinion. You are definitely "getting the hang of it".

Just beautifully done. Truly. Now Royal ice the Christmas cake Guy, it'll be a doddle.😂🥳🥳🥳

Very relaxing to watch, for me anyway, job well done. She’s got a rustic feel and looks great on the farm, fits right in. Job well done guys. Kitchen, bedroom, I’d be moving in. ❤👏👏

The detail around the stones and those lovely curved corners. Beautiful work. Just wondering what the holes in the wall are for? Love seeing the progress.

Maybe try wetting the corner trowel, maybe the water will it glide better?

It would be kind of fun to have the gorgeous exposed stone have one of those clusters like a cat's paw print. Just whismy. You both have mastered adding charm to your home! I love it!

You almost have ASMR down pat!. Looks great. You are getting better.

The plaster seemed much too dry when you were working on the corner - but don't listen to me. I have experience only in using a corner trowel to apply drywall mud. The learning curve for that tool took longer than I expected, but saved me a lot of time after I figured it out. It went on best working from bottom up. It's looking good, I'm happy to hear you say, "that was fun".

I love how much work you put into details. The walls are looking really nice. Have you ever thought of putting in big Windows with wooden frames instead of doors in the Rooms downstairs? I think it would look lovely and you have more light. An alternative, If you can live without doors on the side of the house were the street is. Have a good week. ❤

You are both such troopers. You remind us of how important it is to take your time and be patient. I’m painting my quite big home, both inside and out at the age of 70 and you are a good reminder to me to just relax and take my time and enjoy it along the way.

If you use a large paint brush 6-10 inch and use it to flick water on the job then use the large trowel to smooth the job little easier than wetting the trowel 😁

it looks amazing; don't punish yourself. Full of character and just perfect. Use Distemper inside the house better than limewash.

Losing muck off your trowel... I feel your pain. The struggle is real.

I love the stone features….breaks the white walls up and provides history.❤️🇨🇦

What a transformation. Goes to show you what the love of a project and hard work can do. Great job.

On the time you said, as long it’s pass the final inspection 😮. Good luck. From here it’s definitely very good. Wow! You pass, you can do more😊 ha ha

Keep up the good work "GUY" 💪👍. Enjoy watching you.get it done✅.

You could try using a corner paint brush to put the plaster on. Looks similar to the one you are using, but has a pad on it. You could also try the trowels used for grout to add the plaster to the walls. They are a tad spongy.

rustic charm? Your walls are positively silky compared to the 'rustic charm' in our home. We cement washed the walls over clay bricks using a large whitewashing brush. then we painted the walls with good quality paint. Your walls are looking excellent - really smooth. Well done!!

The finish is looking fabulous. Learning from experience is the best way to learn... just wonderful. Love the nooks...

I think you should probably apply some kind of stone sealer on the exposed stones, easier to dust off and clean

Mate!! is looking extremely well!!! congratulations!! well deserved wine/beer....

I didn’t know I would enjoy watching someone plaster this much. It’s very calming to me, and you’re doing such a great job. Thanks for sharing, from Idaho, USA.

Hey, Guy, Another thought I had about you base coat(s) with the hemp in them. I agree, hemp first makes sense, but I suspect it's more that the hemp gets wet, and so being wet then ATTRACTS the lime in the mix, thus making it more 'buttery'. Or 'creamy', as I think you said. Another thought I had, despite your statement that you want the walls to have a 'rustic charm', it's nice if you can control some things better, and one of those is the outer corner edges of reveals and doorways. What my old Greek and Italian plasterers used to use was a length of 4x1 or 6x1 face-nailed to the wall, when FIRST doing the first few layers of the hemp based render/plaster. They mostly did this for either cement-based or lime-based sand renders (i.e. no hemp) but it made it so easy to then get a properly vertical corner, nice and plumb, and the wall of the reveal relatively flat and also plumb. I noticed some of your corner edges are a bit...wobbly.... I also know how OCD Kylie can be about things being plumb and straight.... So maybe there's room for improvement on the edges, and this might be the trick to assist? Essentially, you use masonry nails (or these days probably masonry screws) to attach the board lightly, such that it is easy to remove. Run your spirit level over it and pack it out or reposition it till you are happy with the fit. Obviously, with some sto ne walls, you might end up with plaster an inch thick at the top down to nothing at the bottom, but this up to yo and your 'easthetic' as to how far you push this. Once the vertically placed board is fixed you can then place plaster on the reveal, and ahave a 'screeding edge' effectively to screed to. Once the initial 'set' has gone off, remove the guide board and then trim the edge of the plaster back to say 45 deg. Then when you do the face wall, you simpoly use the screeded, cut back edge as your guide, and do as you have been doing. The trick to starting in the inside corner and pulling the float out and around the outer corner edge as you were doing is the correct technique. Keep the float clean and moist!! Pun intended.... All the best Mark in Oz

Hey, Guy! Your skills with the steel float and hob are DEFINITELY improving. Been watching as you develop your technique. Probably, by the time you've finished the house, you'll be an expert plasterere, and never want to look at a float ever again!! lol Cuppla quick points: 1) the inside angle float: - I don't know if you've tried this, but keeping the float wet and clean is crucial to get it to 'flow' down the inside corners. Similar to what you were doing with the large plastic flat. Clean and wet. Give that a try maybe..?? 2) the same applies for the steel float when you are doing the later coats without the hemp in them. From what I can recal of my old plasterers I used to employ during Victorian terrace house restorations in Sydney in the eighties (Greeks and Italians) the trick is that the very surfce of the plaster is effectively a slurry, and what you are doing is pushing the slurry back and forth, the steel float scraping the top of any edges or humps, which then add to the 'slurry' and get pushed across the surface, filling in the micro holes and depressions. The trick is to move the flat QUICKLY and with as little pressure as possible to distibute the slurry. As the wet slurry hits a dryer patch of render, the water in bonds with the lime kin the surfce and the slurry suddenly thickens, and stayd stuck to the wall. If the slurry dries out too much, it sticks and draaaaaggggsss, making mess and potentially ripping off the plaster. So the TRICK is to balance the water content of the slurry. Too much water, it runs everywhere and you have no control. Too little and it sticks everywhere and you get big runs, dags and gouges as it 'catches'. What my old Greek plasterer used to do was use a sponge or a brush (maybe your pressure bottle?) and just **lightly** spray the wall ahead of the float's path. Not enough so the wall was dripping water. More like the first raindrops on a sheet of newspaper, if that image helps...? Obvioulsy, you eventually learn what the right look and feel of the slurry is - for you - and work with it like that. Hope that helps..??

Congratulations Guy on passing inspection.😊

Man, you got the patience of Job on the plastering, and I never heard you mention the Deity once…. A saint

That's a damn fine job sir

Good day Guy. Watching you do the outside corners (I know you didn#t ask for advice but I wanted to share this anyway - it might help someone else...) I discovered a method of achieving a good degree of uniformity on the corner by using a damp (tea-)cloth (as the linen was a sturdy material which didnt tear). The cloth was basically held with both hands and pulled in both lateral directions whilst staying still in the bend hence compacting the plaster and forming it at the same time. I found the sponge mothod bought a degree of roughness to the surface which then needed more additional coats to achieve the degree of smoothness that I wanted. The great thing about this method was that I could create fairly large radii without having to worry (to much) about the uniformity. It came on its own - analogue to the strech tension applied. Accidentally rubbing your skin on a rough surface may be good for peeling but its not for me.

Ive just watched the perfect OVERNIGHT LIMEWASH/PAINT, ONE COAT. Done by a young woman in her Portuguese homestead. Her name, MAYA FELIZ.

It looks so nice. You always make me laugh at least once with your commentary. Hope to see y'all cooking in there soon.

You should be able to use vinegar to wash off those stones. It's good for dissolving cement, and I presume lime is similarly alkaline in nature. (Given it's used to increase the PH of acidic soil.)

I envy you for your patience and persistence and that is absolutely understandable.. you have done a fantastic job.. I love your approach to the fact that you are not a professional, but you are a skillful to do the job, yes, it is good enough... and, you know, the stones you guys left out look super pretty .. we love them this way.. thank you.. 😘

Great craftsmanship. A real labour of love. Well done. Amazing!!!

The plaster looks really good. It has a lot of character to it without looking run down or new. Bravo again. I hope you get in the house before winter actually turns bad. Can't wait to see another video. Please guys, do something fun for yourselves. Is there a local near by? lol enjoy.

One nice thing as I think about your project it reminds me of the toy Etch a Sketch, where if you want a do over, you simple shake it and do over again.

It looks as if that corner finishing thingy is doing the trick!

You guys work so hard.I love the way you take time to tell us exactly how you do it.Its looking great.You guys are amazing.i love how you work together Ed from Michigan

You passed inspection! After days and days of work, you're now entitled to open a bottle of your wine and celebrate. Maybe two. It will be a race to be able to move in before the New Year, but I think it can happen.

Practice makes perfect and your practice is showing. Well done!

Try making an outside corner profile from wood to help keep corners even. Just a thought.

The sponge works wonderfully

By George I think you're getting the hang of it now! ;-) The finish is damn near perfect considering you're aiming for "rustic". Maybe my idea of rustic is just effin' rough!!! Cheers

Gyy your making it look easier and easier with each coat. Great work.

What an amazing job you two are doing. Perfection!

I love the way the stone looks like its poking through a layer of snow.

On baths we always used a teaspoon to get the smooth line when resealing, so you could try a tablespoon in the inverted corners to smooth the mix out?

Hard, painstaking work Guy. Great job.😊❤

Fantastic ❤!!

Looking Great!!

Looks fabulous 👍👍

Looking great!

Great job !!