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Definitions of roughcast in various dictionaries:
noun - a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
noun - a rough preliminary model
verb - shape roughly
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Roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel, and often pebbles or shells. The materials are mixed into a slurry and are then thrown at the working surface with a trowel or scoop. The idea is to maintain an even spread, free from lumps, ridges or runs and without missing any background. * Roughcasting incorporates the stones in the mix, whereas pebbledashing adds them on top. * According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (19101911), roughcast used to be a widespread exterior coating given to the walls of common dwellings and outbuildings, but it is now frequently employed for decorative effect on country houses, especially those built using timber framing (half timber). Variety can be obtained on the surface of the wall by small pebbles of different colours, and in the Tudor period fragments of glass were sometimes embedded.Though it is an occasional home-design fad, its ge |