plaster and brick work

[springbulb81]

Once the brick work of building a house is complete and want to cover the brickwork in plaster to paint a different colour. what that kind of plasster called?

also if you're building on a slope, how do you make the brick work level?

[buildersmate]

It isn't plaster, it is usually render, which is a mix of soft sand and cement powder. Older buildings have lime render on them. Plaster has no cement in it.
The second question is presumably a joke one. In case it is not, you dig the foundations deeper at one end than the other, setting the concrete to be level, then build the wall level onto that.

[springbulb81]

sorry yes I see how you could think that was a silly question, I didn't mean it quite like that.

doesn't it take an extremely long time to get the whole foundation to be completey level?

[springbulb81]

that is also a silly question, concrete will be level once its poured regardless of slope. apologies!

[persianlady]

Springbulb.... I hope you are going to employ a to builder to build this house and not do it yourself. LOL

[EDLEE]

Questions are never silly, tho some answers are.

And concrete doesn't level itself, otherwise they couldn't build roads up or down hills, only around.

Stepped footings are often used on slopes, but brick should always be laid level unless aesthetics demands otherwise.
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[springbulb81]

good point! how do they lay concrete on a sloping road?