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Whitewashing

  • 19-05-2020 6:59am
    #1
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,718 ✭✭✭✭


    I want to whitewash the inside of a few old stone sheds but it’s something I’ve never done.

    Anyone suggest a recipe ??

    Was talking to my mother and she said my grandfather used to mix some cement in to toughen it. Is that a thing ?? Would it take away from the whiteness ?


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  • #2
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,584 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Put it into you tube. I am going doing a bit in a few weeks but I am looking on his to make the old mustard colour.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #3
    valtra2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭valtra2


    Lime and white cement. Cxxt of a job. Just finished around the yard here.


  • #4
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,457 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    My FIL used to add bluestone/copper sulphate as well as cement. I think the copper sulphate was to make it whiter. I don't remember how much he added but he used to mix it in a wheelbarrow.


  • #5
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,753 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Base price wrote: »
    My FIL used to add bluestone/copper sulphate as well as cement. I think the copper sulphate was to make it whiter. I don't remember how much he added but he used to mix it in a wheelbarrow.

    I think it gave a blue tint to it. Might have been some disinfectant properties with the copper sulphate too, as it was used for potato blight.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #6
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,718 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    valtra2 wrote: »
    Lime and white cement. Cxxt of a job. Just finished around the yard here.

    What sort of ratios have you used. ?


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  • #7
    Boardnashea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭Boardnashea


    I think the copper sulphate just gives it the extra Daz Blue Whiteness. Same stuff as goes on the spuds - must be good to control a bit of mould.


  • #8
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    The blue was to give the blue undertones to bring out a whiter than white look. Remember reading it in one of Alice Taylors books :D
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  • #9
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,457 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Boardnashea wrote: »
    I think the copper sulphate just gives it the extra Daz Blue Whiteness. Same stuff as goes on the spuds - must be good to control a bit of mould.
    I remember my Mam using bag blue when washing sheets.


  • #10
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Mixed it in a blue plastic barrel once, using the PTO pressure washer.
    You'd need one of those adjustable nozzles, opened out to a low ish pressure fan pattern, and no filter on the suction hose
    When you get it well mixed and runny, they're a great job for applying it, have a 5 bay shed done inside in twenty minutes .


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