Shanghai plaster is a kind of granolithic cement plaster that emerged in Hong Kong around the mid 1920s, and soon became one of the most popular material choices for modern buildings among oversees Chinese in the South China Sea in the 1930s.
Singapore is no exception and we can find hundreds of Shanghai plaster facades, from shophouses to Court houses.
Most Shanghai plaster façades have been covered by several layers of paint trough out the years and the trend pushed by NHB (National Heritage Board of Singapore) is now to uncover the original Shanghai plaster. RENUGLASS was appointed and worked closely with our client, the main contractor S-Team Services Pte Ltd, to do so on a typical Shophouse along south bridge road. We used Guard Industry bio degradable, slow action paint stripper: Guard Remover VG. This paint stripping technique is designed to prevent any damage to the original substrate. It feels great to turn back the wheels of time and strip the Shanghai plaster from the film forming paint that was suffocating it for so many decades.
A second step would be to repair the Shanghai plaster where needed, consolidate it if needed and protect it with ProtectGuard CE, our water and oil repellent Impregnation.
Commentaires