Plastering over brick fireplaces with Lime plaster.
Plastering brick or block fireplaces.
In this video, we explain and demonstrate how to transform a brick fireplace with lime plasters.

Below are all the basic tools we use and recommend on Amazon's website.
https://www.stuccoplastering.com/tools/
Live long and plaster hats, shirts, and other cool stuff on Jason's channel. https://www.livelongandplaster.com/
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.

For immediate bids, send pictures to Jay or myself at our sites below.
https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ Kirk’s website.
https://www.GiordanoPlastering.com/ Jason’s Website.

As a rule, Ole Kirk “won’t” spread this Ekoplast 50 without adding or using the calcium formate as an accelerator, as Ole Kirk does not have the patience to sit around and wait.
I wait for no plaster or stucco to set. Thus, We dictate the dry time using accelerators.
But I suggest the average person apply a basecoat, then apply a finish coat on a separate or later day.

Ekoplast 50 is a Heatinsulating Plaster, Lightweight/Microglass Polymer Modified, Mold and Mildew Resistant, Class 1 Fireproof, Exterior or Interior, Sound Dampening, and has a few other benefits. However, it’s produced and used primarily in Europe; thus, it may cost more as it has to be shipped to the USA.

First, if you do this, clean the bricks. Note that no bonding agent, cement board, or even stucco netting or wiring is necessary; that would be counterproductive.
Nothing adheres longer or tighter than a natural mechanical bond.

If the bricks or blocks are painted, apply a bonding agent like Larson's "WeldCrete" or "Quikrete." This is called a chemical bond, which also permanently adheres new stucco to painted surfaces.

That means the bricks are porous when a wet cementitious product is applied or spread; it bonds instantly and permanently.
If interested in this Ekoplaster50 plaster, call my pal, Hickman, at (760) 8018239

Alternative products are below.
Folks, we like to provide options if you can’t find this material or feel it dries or sets too slowly. View this video as another alternative.
Stucco bricks with Quikrete Greencore cement stucco.    • Stucco over concrete blocks bricks  

In this video, we demonstrate how to apply Portland stucco over block walls; this system and the ones below can also apply a basecoat to any fireplace.    • Stucco over Concrete Blocks  

How to plaster an interior fireplace with Structolite.    • Stucco a fireplace with color.