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I have been told you can improve this white wash recipe by adding about a tablespoon of powdered alum per gallon of whitewash. This supposedly will improve it's "sticking" characteristics, i.e., makes it more resistant to rubbing off.
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You don't have to start with a plain or neutral wall to whitewash your walls. With the variety of prepared products as well as step by step instructions for creating your own paint, you can do this yourself, covering all sorts of surfaces.
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Roger W seeks a recipe for whitewash. This is from the 1888 Farmer's and; Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia, reprinted by The Crossing Press, 1977. ... If you want the whitewash for exterior use, the book suggests slaking with water in which one pound of rice has been boiled. And if you want a shiny, glazed whitewash,
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Whitewash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whitewash , or calcimine , kalsomine , or calsomine is a very low cost type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and chalk (whiting). Various other additives have also been used. ...
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Recipes and ideas to make your own household items ... Here is a recipe to make whitewash. A cheap coating that must be reapplied frequently. Excellent for farm buildings because the lime is germicidal. ... For interior use only.
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Whitewash is made from lime; for this purpose the lime should be in hard lumps, not such as has been long exposed to the air and become air-slaked. The U.S. Lighthouse Board recipe for making whitewash says that we may slake half a bushel of lime in boiling water, keeping it covered during the process to keep in the steam;
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I don't have a glass GH so have never used whitewash on it but if this stuff performs as advertised, the old timer's would have loved it. ... I want to whitewash some of the glass on my greenhouse. I read you could use white paint mixed with water. What is the ratio of paint to water to use? ... RE: whitewash recipe...
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