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Plaster and soot mottling on this Portuguese building almost made it look like a 3D print, but nope - just a weird color/texture.
When it came to something that had an interesting texture to post in Macro Mondays this week, with the theme of ‘Textures’, I had to look no further than the end of my arm! There, in all its pristine glory was a lovely white plaster cast!
Taking a macro shot of it, with difficulty, I might add, I was amazed by the mixture of textures that go to make up the cast. Plaster Bandage is made from a special woven cloth, uniformly impregnated with the finest quality, fast-setting plaster of Paris or by its real name Calcium Sulphate. After the process of applying wet casting material has been completed, the cast will start to dry in about 10 to 15 minutes. Eventually becoming solid and encasing the fractured bones!
Blurred, but still my best (most complete) shot of Barbara Hepworth' sculpture (plaster, 1958). Seen in the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St. Ives, Cornwall. When I say "complete" I mean to be as close as possible to the sculptor's ability to let the sea speak through her. The weather and light that day were very poor and I also was not well enough to keep the camera still. Yet, the formidable power of the sculpture will hopefully get through.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Digging through previously unpublished shots, such as this from April 2018, is just a sticking plaster on a gaping street photography wound. I wish it was safe for me to be out there now, perhaps one day in the distant future it may be so again. Stay safe everyone.
A late afternoon departure helps silhouette the 111's profile as it begins its 26 mile trek to the Fish Creek quarry rolling north over one of many dry wash crossings.
Shortly after arriving in town and its crew tying down handbrakes on the 24 loads, and spotted the lone water tank car, USG No. 111 would rest in the evening sun where it’ll sit it out until the next call to duty.
Walking the Nakasendo highway in the Kiso Valley (Japan) from Magome and Tsumago. Two beautiful restored and preserved Edo-period way stations.
Magome and Tsumago have put their history to use, and are known for their preserved feudal-era wooden and plaster buildings, inns and hot springs. In the early 1970s, both towns closed their main streets to cars and, restored several dozen old houses and, as much as possible, hid their power lines. A trail connecting the two towns makes for an easy hike between them (3 or 4 hours, depends if you take pictures ;-))
Spotted this arty still life, with two Jizo-statues, in Tsumago. I don't know the significance of the four wooden pillars. Always happy to hear if you do know it!
In Plaster City, California the United States Gypsum Company operates the last narrow gauge freight railway in North America. The 3 foot gauge railway runs from the USG wallboard plant to a quarry North of town on a 27 mile line. The railroad transports limestone from the quarry to the plant and also supplements the water supply at the quarry with a water car. USG operates two MLW/Bombardier DL-535EW locomotives (numbers 111 and 112) which were built in 1982 for the Whitepass and Yukon Railway who never took delivery of them. Four units were built total, with 113 having been wrecked and the 114 getting delivered to the Whitepass & Yukon with a 14 year delay in 1994. 114 was later sold to the Durango and Silverton Railway.
Here USG 111 departs the Plaster City wallboard plant with the usual train of hoppers to be loaded at the quarry 27 miles East of town and a water tank to supplement the water supply out there. During my last visit there had been no morning train due to trackwork, but this time around the plant was much busier and both a morning and afternoon (and probably a night crew as well) ran this day. Plaster City, CA
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Example of an older, asbestos plaster wall system on wood lath. While these plaster materials may look like any typical plaster, that's partly the point of this photo: asbestos-containing plaster might be present in any ordinary-looking plaster material; whether the plaster is troweled-on or spray-applied onto wood or metal lath, on gypsum wallboard panels, onto concrete or applied to any type of substrate. In this particular example, asbestos was found within the thicker, plaster base layer.
For a more conclusive determination about whether or not plaster contains asbestos (or any type of suspect material for that matter), multiple bulk samples of the material, including all layers of a "system", are to be properly collected by a trained, certified, and accredited ("licensed") asbestos inspector, and then tested via specialized, laboratory microscopy method(s) to determine asbestos presence or absence and its respective percentage therein. The testing can be relatively inexpensive, ranging on average between $6-to-$30 USD (or more) per sample, per layer, often depending upon required turn-around time
Another point of interest regarding the plaster system in the above example is that there are actually three layers of plaster: the bottom ("render") thick base-layer; the thin ("floating" or "setting") skim-layer, and a textured finishing layer. Each type of plaster layer, (base-coat, skim-coat, textured surfacing, etc.) has been known to contain asbestos.
The coarse, base plaster in this instance, sometimes referred to as "brown-coat" or "scratch-coat", in addition to asbestos, also contains small aggregate and animal hair fibers (likely bovine, equine, porcine, caprine, or cervine). These constituents are more visible in the inset image.
Although not in this particular case, sometimes the white, finish layer or "skim-coat" may contain asbestos. Or, even the textured finish, stucco-style spackling may contain asbestos as well.
Particular attention to different types of plasters, possibly applied in different building areas, such as: mechanical rooms, boiler rooms, fan rooms, auditoriums, stages, arenas, churches/temples (or other places of worship), cafeterias, theaters, air plenums, utility areas, electrical rooms/vaults, workshops, stairwells, corridors, decorative applications, lobbies, elevator shafts, radiator shielding, instrumental-music band/choir rooms, library/media centers, etc.; are all unique functional spaces that should be especially considered when evaluating the potential for differing types of homogenous area plaster applications.
Further yet, ceiling plaster may contain asbestos and wall plaster may not, despite being in the same functional space and having similar appearance/texture.
Of further importance in distinguishing different types of plasters that may exist in a building is knowing the renovation history of the structure, and also if additions were constructed or patching was installed that contain plaster(s) applied at later date(s). Each plaster from differing dates of construction or patches should be assessed separately.
There are also examples of asbestos inspection surveys in multi-floor buildings where asbestos (> 1% content) was found in wall/ceiling plasters on certain floors, but not others (trace to < 1%).
Keep in mind that if ACM (>1%) is identified in one layer of a plaster application, then the entire plaster "system" is treated as an ACM.
Additionally, don't forget about potential lead or cadmium-based paint or respirable silica dust exposure issues when dealing with older painted plaster materials during demolition or renovation activities.
It’s quitttin’ time, the engineer lightens his load dumping out his cooler before helping his conductor tighten handbrakes before heading home for the day.
Marquette Rail Z151 and CSX N956 both wait at Plaster Creek for a light into the yard. N956 had just gotten their power from the house and was getting ready to back down the main to their train. GLLX #3003 and a pair of GP38-2s wait on the Sunnyside Lead. In the foreground are the now-removed Maggie's Lead and switch to the old piggy back ramps.
This wall installation by the artist Allan McCollum actually consists of small plaster sculptures painted to look like a frames with a black rectangle in the middle. Apart from being a delightful rhythmic pattern, this work makes you wonder about the reality of art. Seen at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL).
Toledo-Grand Rapids freight Q335 is inbound at Plaster Creek with a restricting indication into Wyoming Yard. The spur to Alro Steel was still connected in this 2007 view.
Additional close-up view of a two-layer asbestos-containing plaster material. Image shows painted skim-coat layer on beige base-coat layer with various animal hairs and conspicuous chrysotile asbestos fiber bundles.
Emphasizing the importance of sampling EACH layer of a suspect materials "system"!
Image of an asbestos-containing plaster wall system, showing the base-coat layer with various animal hairs and chrysotile asbestos fiber bundles protruding from the crumbly plaster material.
Damaged wall section showing several layers of materials, including asbestos plaster base-coat (indicated by arrow).
Outer-most plaster-board system is comprised of more recently applied two-layered plaster on gypsum panel-board (drywall); this is on top of an older (original) 3-layer plaster system on concrete substrate. The initial brown, scratch-coat plaster was tested and found to contain approx. 2% chrysotile asbestos.