CHARACTERISTICS AND UTILIZATIONS
The Marmorino Venezia Travertino is a mixture of particular and selectioned dusts and marble grits with other mineral ingredients with prevalence lime and other different additives which facilitate and garantee an excellent anchorage to the support.
It is the caracteristic "Marmorino" already used some centuries ago in the villas and in the most important palaces, today proposed again by the IMPEX COLOR in the present version, using the ancient formulas, but made with modem technics.
The Marmorino Venezia Travertino can be used both inside and outside: for its particular mineral composition, the Marmorino Venezia Travertino has a good resistance both to the humidity and to the moulds.
It has an excellent perspiration, even if it has a sufficient waterproofness.
PREPARATION OF THE PRODUCT
Mix the Marmorino Venezia Travertino with about 35% of water, using a low speed mixer; let the mixture rest for 30 minutes at least.
APPLICATION
After treating carefully the substrate, apply a first coat of matenal with a steel float, and paying attention to spread uniformly and plane the product, without blurs, lines, surmounts etc. After about 12 hours (according to the absorption and the environmental temperature), apply a second coat of Marmorino Venezia Travertino with the same previous procceding, and before it begins to get dry, polish with the steelfloat making progressively more and more pressure.
This phase is important because it is in this moment that you succed in compacting and polishing the Marmorino Venezia. Further advice: during the summer season or with very absorbing plasters you should wet the walls before the application of the first and also the second coat to avoid the lines of the float, during the application of the first coat, and to put in evidence the grains of marble, pass with the sponge float before it dries.
Protect, in case of outside works, the wall for three days at least (particularly during the periods of high humidity).
The Marmorino Venezia Travertino has natural colours, it is the type of marble which gives a tone. Inside the Marmorino Venezia Travertino can be treated with transparent wares to get brightness and protection.
Outside to reduce the wet effect you can apply, after at least 10 days, a protective based on siloxanic type.
TECHNICAL DATA
Yield: 1,7 Kgimq.
Tins: 18 Kg. and 5 Kg.
Specific Weight: 1,1 about at 20°C.
Exsiccation: 2 hours to the tonch, 24 hours in depth