Talk:Plasterwork

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, now in the public domain.

This article is essentially a copy of the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article on Plasterwork. It contains a lot of technical details that may no longer be accurate or relevant. It should probably be rewritten to remove out-dated references and add current information, or perhaps merged into the Plaster article. -- Davnor 18:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I do not agree about merging. Plaster and plasterwork are two different things.

A good idea is to include information about plastering tools.

  • I think all aspecs of plastering should be left in place to give a description of the history and then new material added and merged to the modern day. Ronmartens

This idea, that the 11th edition of Brittanica needs updating, changing or editing must be once and for all erased.

A craft such as plastering or plasterwork (stucco) has not changed or improved since the late 19th century, it has declined and been mostly replaced by plasterboard that is finished with one-coat plaster.

Not only has plastering declined and been replaced by plasterboard, and stucco by polystyrene, encyclopdias have too.

The best encyclopedia in the world is the 1911 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Since that time all subsequent editions are worse, and articles shorter and contain less information according to:

www.1911encylopedia.org/LoveToKnow_1911:Explanation.

So the basic idea in this comment (which needs to be erased, not refuted) - that everything - crafts and all written information gets better as time goes by is wrong. Leave well alone. If you want to do oil painting like the Dutch masters, you do not use modern pigments, you need 16th century technology. Likewise for plastering and plasterwork, it has not improved since the Renaissance.

No, there are no out of date references that need removing. Plastering was around with the Romans.

No one has bettered the techniques for making Japanese Samurai swords either. They do not need updating either.

You will save a lot of people a lot of time by striking out this ignorant comment. It is creating a lot of unnecessary work for people having to refute it again and again.

17:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)