Wall Plastering Machine; Importance of Wall Plastering
Wall plastering is compulsory work in buildings. The process used to obtain smooth surfaces of walls after laying the blocks. Normally, builders use the manual method to plaster walls after the raising of the wall through laying of blocks and concrete pillars. The use of Wall Plastering Machine has never been in use before now.
The important of wall plastering is that Plastered walls are resistance to water soaking of wall during rainfall. The highly concreted cement concrete use in plastering provides a form of coating for the building wall against water, dews, and other unfavorable conditions that could affect the integrity of the building wall. It acts as a shield in addition to creating smooth surface.
Materials Needed for Wall Plastering
For plastering of the wall to occur, a suitable mixture of cement with plastering sand will be made while the builder applies it to the wall using hand towel and guiding/smoothing wood.
This is the conventional/traditional way of plastering a building. It is quite a tedious job that could take days or weeks, to complete depending on the size of the building. That is the task the wall plastering machine has come to handle.
Challenges of manual wall plastering method
The problem of manual wall plastering method is not limited to its difficulty alone, rather other issues such as lack of smoothness, and cracks afterwards are part of the problems. It takes an expert in wall plastering jobs to execute excellent jobs in wall plastering.
Considering the challenges in manual plastering, the engineers recently developed a sophisticated wall plastering machine that is able to address the problems faced in manual plastering.
Features of the Wall Plastering Machine
This appears to be one of the simplest machine yet highly sophisticated when it comes to functionalities. In a practical video test made available to EngineeringAll.com the machine was able to exhibit the following features:
Vertical and horizontal movements of its entire body with ease.
Execute precise and accurate concrete plastering on a wall of clay pot blocks.
Minimized waste of concrete mixture by applying and finishing the right quantity at a time.
Extends its plastering arms in any direction on the wall to ensure every area is covered by the plastering concrete.
The machine can plaster the entire walls of a three-bathroom bungalow within 24hours under standby work based on its plastering speed.
Based on design, the machine has two beams positioned vertically which serves as the anchoring support for the locomotive plastering unit that moves up and down to execute the plastering operations.
The base provides the rigid support required to keep the entire component stable while working. It is made of thick and strong metal with significant uniform flat area.
The video below shows how the plastering machine operates.
Expectations from Future Wall Plastering Machine
Considering the features of the machine shown above in the video, it has actually raised lots of hope for possible more sophisticated wall plastering machines in the future.
Such machine means the ability to get large area of walls plastered in a matter of minutes. The idea will help the future building projects in terms of plastering a full six floors building could be a matter of few days or even hours.
Features of future plastering machines are expected to have wider plastering coverage per rolling, wider base, automatic rolling and operations, and lots. Such features may not presently be found in the modern wall plastering machines and if they exist their effectiveness may not be good enough to meet the expected performance as the ones possibly coming out n the future.
