Vienna white
Vienna white: flour-fine soft limestone, the raw material of traditional lime paint. Good coverage and adhesion, a vapour-permeable surface, mixable with any pigment.
- Particle size
- flour-fine grind
- Raw material
- soft limestone from Zebegény (88–93% CaCO₃)
- Packaging
- 5 kg · 4×5 kg · 40 kg
What made our grandmothers’ walls so white?
Vienna white is the raw material of traditional lime painting: soft limestone from the Zebegény quarry, ground flour-fine. Mixed with water it dissolves into a paste immediately and gives a wall paint with good covering and adhesive power; thanks to its high coverage and binding strength the surface stays durable. It can be mixed with any pigment, used as a filler in wall paints and as a glazing agent in oil paints.
Lime painting is not nostalgia. It has returned to renovation work over the past decades — especially on old houses with adobe and brick walls — precisely because it is vapour-permeable and does not seal off the moisture movement of the wall the way a film of dispersion paint does. This material always did that; today that is exactly what is asked of it again.
Properties
- good adhesion on plaster, brick and adobe walls
- high coverage, fast setting
- vapour-permeable, does not seal the moisture movement of the wall
- an alkaline binder compatible with every pigment
- 100% natural, Hungarian product — free of chemical additives
Also suitable for making glue-bound paints and knife fillers (mountain chalk).
The actual mixing ratio, the number of coats needed and the surface preparation all depend on the condition of the wall in question — we are glad to help you work out the quantity.
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Tell us what you need it for and in what quantity — we call you back with the exact ex-works price.