replastering

Part of the wallpaper had already been stripped, part of the replastering was finished.

For some buildings the restoration work involved little more than replastering the facade while for others it involved demolition and rebuilding.

Some decorators have put them on poles likes flags or hung them like art, which can require rewiring and replastering of walls.

The clip documents the annual replastering of the great Mosque of Djenne, the largest adobe building in the world.

And all residents will be given another $2,500 for the repainting and replastering of walls and refinishing of floors.

"Passers-by help with the replastering or they get pelted with banco - even the President," smiled Yaya, pointing out the crumbling faýade of the main mosque.

An evocative film of the annual replastering of the great Mosque of Djenne, the largest adobe building in the world, is an inspired bonus: a vision of an architectural monument as love object.

He also suggests that damp-proofers have an incentive to carry out more replastering than is strictly necessary as it allows them to finish the job without having to wait for walls to dry out, resulting in faster payment.

The chemical injection has absolutely no effect on the moisture content of walls (a fact published by the Building Research Establishment as long ago as 1978), and the cement-based replastering is bound to make walls damper.

If the afflicted wall is shared by two houses owned by two neighbors, both neighbors must help to remove the afflicted stones, scrape and place the new stones, but only the owner of the house whose interior was afflicted performs the replastering.

If their tracks aren't covered by a broker (some scramble to tip a super or hire a cleaning crew to straighten up), messy sellers may have to put money into escrow to cover the cost of cleaning and removal or even the replastering of ungainly holes.

He accepts the need for replastering when significant amounts of ground salts have built up in the existing plaster, however he then goes on to say that replastering is often carried out to make up for an unreliable chemical DPC.