Plaster Over Tumbled Marble

Marble with its soft cool touch and lustrous veining makes an elegant wall finish for bathrooms fireplace surrounds and kitchen backsplashes.

Plaster over tumbled marble.

As you can see there is some subtle texturing and even more subtle color variation. With chalk paint you can cover marble in one or two coats with little to no sanding beforehand. The only thing you would be achieving would be to change the colour of the marble but you would end up with a very ugly backsplash. We specialize in creating custom handprinted tumbled stone coasters and personalized marble coasters for wineries golf clubs resorts weddings and corporations.

Standard plaster is more susceptible to damage from imbalanced pool chemistry which can result in slight shading scaling staining etching cracking or delaminating in extreme cases. Then immediately wipe away any plaster that gets on surfaces you are not plastering. Tumbled marble has a specific unique texture which is unlike any other. Just watch as i fill out over 3inches worth of cement plastering old.

There is no doubt that painting over marble can be challenging but only if you do it the old fashioned way with hours of preliminary sanding. When you paint it it will still look like tumbled marble because of the texture but the finish on it will not be authentic. I applied 3 layers of the plaster with the venetian plaster spatulas sold at lowes. There are hardeners called pozzolans which can be added to the plaster mix.

I got valspar the lowe s brand which is not truly venetian plaster but a faux venetian plaster. Artisans would blend lime plaster with marble dust and pigments to create the compound venetian plaster then trowel it onto walls or ceilings in multiple thin layers with short overlapping. Authentic venetian plaster is a blend of aged lime putty and marble powder that dates to at least the 1500s. How to remove marble tiles from sheetrock.

The picture above shows what the venetian plaster looks like. Venetian plaster is both a type of plaster and the name of a faux finishing technique. Otherwise it may crack. High resolution jpg rgb for photos and eps or pdf for logos.

Plastering over old stone walls me using my new tyzack trowel with some sand and cement. If using traditional venetian plaster hang tarps over your surface so that it will dry slowly and evenly.