Venetian Plastering A Wall | Beginners GUIDE TO Polished Plastering 

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

Great to see you do this Blaine

Great videos as always Blaine. Nice one

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 😁👌🏻

Master class! 👏

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

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!

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.

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

Nice work 🙌

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

Videos are getting better and better

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

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

Doing good mate definitely getting there

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!!!!

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. 👍🏼

The wall looks 👌 just like u in the dressing gown 👍🏻

Excelente video 👍 👏 👌🏻

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

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

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.

This is a skill I hope to pick up soon myself. One thing I'm curious about is what prep is required before applying the first coat

Great video Blaine. Looking to get into this myself any idea on how I can start this ?

More tutorials on that Italian stucco pliz

Looks Great 😎👍 you can do another color like.A Gold or a lite brown ❤️Love that Shine ⭐️

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

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

Came out nice though 👏👍

Can you do grey venetian plaster, from what I've read this might show off the products textures and patterns best. Looks good, thanks for learning!

Hi Blaine, mate, you've tempted me to give it a go!😅

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

Hiya, so when polishing the plaster at the end, can you use a flexible blade type like a Nela Gold Trowel for the polished finish ? ( I'm not a plasterer)

pavan anima burnishing trowel is the beast you need bro👍

Hi, great video... I'm looking into doing this myself having been a plasterer since the 80's. But as I'm getting older, this seems a good way to slow down as I approach my older years. My Question I can't find an answer to is How much product would I need per metre? Looking at some websites, it says 1 kilo per Sq m, but it looks like it goes a long way for that to be the case?

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.

I've always wanted to try this where do you buy the product from ???

Hi Bud Where do you buy your tools and materials from Great vid BTW

Can you use an ox ultra flex to polish?

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

U'll get a better Finish if u do a 1st Base of IT WHITE. , then 2 coats of color Bro. And you can DEFINITELY patch Venetian 👍

Hi! I just started and my plaster is peeling off when I burnish. Any tips?

What brand is that you are using? Would you recommend it?

Hi, what supplier are you using for your plaster/dye, cheers

1960s California. Finally made it in UK. You can charge a fortune for it. Well done

Where did you get the material from

Where do you buy that plaster pls?

Hello fella any chance of letting me know where to buy some cheers

Where did you learn to do this ?

What materials are you using? Try grassello rather than acrylic for a cleaner look. Acrylic gives a synthetic look in my opinion. Take a look at some of my work ✌🏽

What about the colour is it available

Hi, don't suppose you could tell me what brand you used and is it any good? Thanks

Where did you purchase this from? Thankyou

What boards do you practice on mate???

what about the primer before?

have you used clay plaster

Can you teach me more please

When I’ve seen this done before they always finished off with a coat of wax and buff that up

Half way through you said 3 coat's lol 👍🙏

nice explanation...but its a novelty,like the wallpaper that looks like marble...just a phase and will outdate itself

Movement rather than texture with the polished stuff

so you dont use water for polishing this kind of plaster

Tape them angles mate then you get clean 3dges mate

Why 3 coats,,,and why white for the base coat, unless your after ultra flat marble gloss finish with super fine you dont need 3 coats from what ive seen.

Get exotic trowels

Good effort but you need to completely forget general plastering in your technique, your working in straight lines that's a no no there are no straight lines in nature if you used a darker colour on that wall it will show up every movement, you are working from dry to wet that's a no no you need to work from wet to dry! Also make sure you tape the edges first then just before you burnish take the tape off so you dont drag any dry gear into the wall and scratch it. You need to use a lint free and coulor free cloth for polishing. Keep practising the penny will drop the more you do it. Good luck bro.

DId u put any WAX on your wall Bro 🤔 Normally you would wax before Buffing ✊👍

Why use yellow 🙄

Blaine makes more cash from RU-vid than he does with trowel

Sorry dude, you lost all credibility in your video when you said "if you are new to Venetian plastering like me"