Plasterer

The trade of plasterer nominates a person who mixes the plaster and applies is manually or mechanically The manufacture of the natural plaster, dehydration partial of the gypsum (hydrated calcium sulfate), during its cooking at relatively low temperature (approximately 200°C) gives rise to a white powder. The natural plaster After extraction, the gypsum is crushed, crushed and dried. or plasters artificial, coming from thermo plant desulphurization is the elimination of sulfur dioxide in the gas rejections. With this intention, wet lime is used. It results the formation from it from gypsum crystals which will be used with manufacture of the synthetic plaster in the construction industry as building.

The plasterer , is a semi-skilled worker in the brickwork or the coating, the installation of the hanging ceilings or the partitions prefabricated in dry plaster works. He only works or equips some on building sites new, of restoration or repair. If he works in a small company, the plasterer will carry out most of the time the whole of work which concerns its trade.

Many companies widen their range by posing partitions of all types of materials: metal, wood, plastic… Pose door frames, painting, work of thermo isolation or phonic is natural prolongations of the basic activities of the companies of plaster works and plates of Plâtre.

There exist derived or complementary trades:

Plasterer-bricklayer (which builds the brick party-walls, and extends the Enduit S of Plâtre)
Ceiling light-plasterer called also plasterer of ceilings in Belgium and Switzerland (which coated plaster ceilings, with or without construction of the ceilings)
Plasterer-painter (which cumulates these two trades)

Because of great painfulness of this profession, and with the strong increase in the use of the plasterboards, this trade evolves more and more to the new profession of Plaquiste. Old designation: Alibastreur

There in addition exists a speciality which draws on the craft industry from art, that of plasterer-staffeur , which in addition to the work of the coating, is able to create or restore mouldings, rosettes and other cornices in Staff.

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