Do you add your plaster to water, or do you add water to your plaster?

[Cacique Caribe]

Which one you choose can make all the difference:

 

Dan
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[Tony Hughes]

Always add plaster to water is what the books and manufacturers tell you and I’ve certainly found that works for me.

The only time I mix water into plaster is when I use it as a filler – in small quantities I can judge when it is about right better than adding plaster to a fixed amount of water.

Don’t use Plaster of Paris a lot but other types of plaster work the same way.

 

 

 

[Mike Headden]

I use so little I buy ready mixed.

There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

[Tony Hughes]

You can’t ‘ready mix’ plaster of paris. I only use that method for filling plaster gaps, it is useless as a general filler.

 

 

[Andrew Beasley]

Normally add water to the plaster (Hydrocal is my preferred powder though) and then add powder / water as needed.

I cannot remember the last time I mixed more than half a small mugs worth though…

 

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