Data sheet

Moulex is a lime plaster, traditionally made from plaster and fat lime.

Moulex is designed for the fabrication of staff pieces for exterior. In particular, it is used to cast ornemental pieces for restauration of ancient facade (in studio or on building site), stripes, cornices, framings, badges, etc...
Same techniques used as those for traditional staff, in studio for fabrication or for installation on building site. For detail, check on our specifications.
Moulex versions also exist for stuc-pierre and stuc-brick.

Moulex combines the traditional staff smoothness with the lime and plaster "skin" qualities and holding.
Like interior casting plaster, Moulex contains no sand nor contracts during the setting. Hence, it is possible to reproduce faithfully the finest details (moulding corners, rosettes...).
It allows high-fidelity reproduction.
What is more, issued from the plaster and lime coating tradition, Moulex can be applied in exterior, without paint, simply protected by zinc work.
It is then often custom-colored in the bulk and simply put on as such. The skin quality and durability of the works so realized is incomparable, because after setting, Moulex re-carbonates itself to the air and forms a calcite surface conferring it resistance and hardness.
Like all lime plaster, Moulex has an exceptional capacity for the drying and sanitisation of ancient walls. Because of its unequaled breathing abilities it protects all the habitat elements from water (wood, plaster coating, adobe, rammed earth, ... ) and insures salubrity.
Hence, it is particularly recommended for porous structure walls (cut stone, plaster-lime, or sablon-mortar coated masonry, wood panels..).

Moulex is ready to be installed right after casting with a very smooth "cast-bottom skin". It also can be re-cut or sanded on surface to obtain a skin closer to stone or brick texture (compulsory for pieces subjected to weathering).
Moulex can be delivered pre-mixed in any color.
It exists in short version ( studio casting) or long version ( casting on building site).
A specific version is suitable for our Stuc Pierre process.

Streamlet-caused damages can be prevented using zinc works for any projections of more than 2cm/ 3/4 inch. In the case of projections less than ¾ in., the horizontal parts will offer a strong glacis.
Particularly, the protections of walls exposed to dominant winds should be looked after.
Degradations by resurgence, for instance pilasters, are avoided by a 20 in. tall base wall.

In any case, it is essential to carefully purge the former ornamentation (dig up with a pickax ).The support must be clean, exempt of soot, bistre or efflorescence.
The support must be worked again, even, if necessary, enmeshed similarly to the original.
All non-visible wood material must be enmeshed before coating as well as all heterogeneities on the support (mesh and galvanized points).

Moulex handling procedure is relevant of the staff tradition (contact us for any questions).
Because of a lime-based composition, caution is given that gloves and glasses should be used.
Moulex is mixed manually with a stick or mixer in a rubber container to the satisfying consistency.
The cast can be in plaster or preferably in elastomer.
The piece must be at least 2.5 cm / 1in. thick (1 cm/ 3/8 inch for interior use). Fiber can be used.
Setting time varies from 20 mns to 1 hr, on demand.
During drying time, white efflorescences (lime) can appear : they will disappear with a simple brushing.

Moulex installation is comparable to that of the staff tradition.
Recommended laying in the case of colored pieces in the bulk is a stone-joint of 1cm/ 3/8 inch. Joint material are made in “Enduit deMontmorency” coating, tinted (ask us the Moulex color-matched complement) or white (PFD 0).
In the case of installation with "sharp joints" ask us the limestone patina Aquaforte of the same Moulex color.
In exterior, hull cast pieces must be filled after installation with PG 15 or PG 30.

10 kg/m² per cm of thickness (15 pd/sqft per in. of thick.).

4 month, kept dry in a dry and closed room.

Available in 25 kg 2 ply (paper and polyethylene) lined bags.
Original or tinted on order.