Tips whitewashed ceiling in the kitchen

This is the most traditional version of the finish ceiling. In the past it was almost the only, but not the best.Appeared recently new materials allow to obtain better coverage than the Cretaceous. Moreover, it is more durable - urgent repairs will have to do only if you flood the neighbors above. If extreme situations there will be no ceiling serve without repairs for 5-7 years or more. To begin repairing the ceiling should be to eliminate cracks. Zamazhte their putty, align all the bumps and hollows, and let the surface dry. Then prepare the mortar.It can add laundry soap or salt. Soap - a good disinfectant that removes bacteria and preventing the breeding of insects. Salt increases the resistance of paint.
To prepare the solution of the first prescription nastrogayte finely chop or a piece of soap, shaving pour into a container and pour boiling water. After complete dissolution of their add 1-2 tablespoons of linseed oil. Then, in another vessel extinguish 2 kg of lime in 5 liters of water and pour there suds. Mix all ingredients, add so much water to 10-gallon bucket was filled.

The second option is more common solution preparation. To whitewash cook it the following recipe: pan and dissolve 1.5 kg of lime in 4 liters of cold water. Be careful, because when slaked lime emits large amounts of heat and sprayed. Then in a saucepan in 1 liter of boiling water solution of 5 tablespoons of salt to complete disappearance of the crystals and cool. Cooled saline solution pour in the lime, add water to obtain 10 liters of the mixture, stir well and strain through several layers of gauze. If you want to ready solution before you start, you can add 300 g of a dyestuff: chlorine monoxide, soot, peroxide of manganese, iron ocher, ultramarine, ocher, etc.
Prepare the ceiling to deliver a solution: wipe it with a damp cloth to remove all dust. Then moisten the surface with clean water, causing its usual pit brush.
After that, the same pit with a brush dipped already in mortar, okraste surface of the ceiling. When whitewash little dries, apply another layer of mortar.
Whitewashed surface of the ceiling after staining can detect various defects. Some of them appear in the process of painting, others - only after you have sustained any first layer. Thus, if the surface during the painting since there are traces of the brush pile, then mortar is not enough liquid. You can fix this very simply by adding a solution of a certain amount of water until the mass of normal density.

If after whitewashing the ceiling on the surface will remain small grains, the reason is that before starting the solution was poorly protsezhen or grinding pigment additives is too large. This shortcoming can be eliminated strained solution 1-2 times through several layers of gauze and clearing the entire surface of the newly deposited wash and dust particles.

The cause of the grains may also be that you are not thoroughly cleaned the ceiling before the whitewash.

Ready-to-use whitening

The industry also produces ready-to-eat whitewash. It is packed in plastic jerry cans or metal cans and is a thick plastic mass, made on the basis of synthetic binder (carboxymethylcellulose, dispersion PVA), pigments and additives waterproof.
Before use the ready whitewash dilute with an equal volume of water and stir. Apply it with a brush, brush or with Spray gun in 1-3 layers, periodically prosushivaya within 2-3 hours. Consumption whitewashing - 100-120 g per 1 m2. In addition to being ready to whitewash does not require additional training before use, it has increased strength compared with conventional chalk.