Hi,Tadelact is a very interesting wall finish, especially for wet environments like bathrooms etc.. It originates from Morocco. As I understand it, it is a lime finish where the end coat is polished while still wet with a burnisher. They use then a smooth round stone and some vegetable soap made from oil usually olive ( logic in Morocco ) The polishing makes the pores to be very dense and than the reaction lime and soap makes it also waterproof. They put pigments in the putty to get different colours. It is labour intensive, the rubbing or polishing goes slowly. I also understand it as a variation on marmolino or so where lime is polished while still wet. This gives then the smooth surface with a nice shine to it. What I have seen is that the end-result is always kind of cloudy and the walls not straight ( due to rubbing with a small handhold stone in circular movements )
Is there anybody who could tell the ingredients more exactly?Or would there be another system where the walls could be polished with something bigger to keep them more straight? The look is very beautiful... and I would really like to find such a wall finishing that goes faster and efficient. If somebody wants to get it "off the shelf " it is sold commercially and is easy to get via the internet. But for me the fun is grater to make it yourself, and I am sure it must be very simple to make from materials locally.
Hope somebody can help. Greetings to all... michel On 7-nov-05, at 01:55, Stewart Hargrave wrote:
Several posts have mentioned this lately. What is tadelakt?
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Stewart H.
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