Plaster Sand is a very fine grade of sand. This product is used for plastering and creating renders both internally and externally. For use with concrete, use Ballast Sand to improve the strength of the concrete ready for use with foundations of certain structures.

What is washed plaster sand?

Washed Plaster Sand is natural medium textured sand consisting of a range of granular sizes within the plaster sand specifications. Washed Plaster Sand Cutsheet. PRODUCT USES: Washed Plaster Sand can be used anywhere clean fine textured sand is specified; such as in plaster or concrete mixes.

Why Dust Free Plaster Sand?

• Surface area of micro fine dust is more, approximately 1 kg dust has 400 sq. Meter surface area. More dust, more surface area & more surface area means increase in water cement ratio.
• Mortar with micro fine dust shrinks after setting and develops cracks in plaster.
• Generally plaster mortar is manually mixed. Whenever crush sand made from black stone is used color of dust & cement resembles & makes wrong impression of homogeneous mix. For homogeneous mix concrete mixer have to be used but, may not be feasible every time.
• Cost effective.
• Dust free crushed plaster sand gives very good strength compare to river sand.
• Dust free sand increases workability in manual plaster.
• No impurities such as coal, bones, seeds, shells & other decaying organic materials are present in machine made plaster sand. This increases 30 % strength of the plaster. No admixture is required.

To sum up the whole discussion, we can say that this sand is useful to build different places. It is mostly used all over the world because of its power and usage. Therefore, you can rely on it without any tension.