roughcasts

Pebbled wall coatings

Roughcast is a coarse plaster finish for exterior walls, made by mixing lime or cement with gravel or pebbles and throwing it against the surface.

The verb means to coat with this material or, more figuratively, to shape something in rough preliminary form: The sculptor roughcasted the figure before refining details.

Roughcasts is the plural or third-person singular.

application

plastering

Coating walls with morite

spraying · troweling · coating · skimming · dash · mortar · cement · lime · aggregate · sand

surface

exterior

Outer portion

  • facadeDeceptive outward appearance
  • claddingOuter protective layer
  • wallsVertical enclosing structures

finish · coating · masonry · external · weatherproofing · pebbled · grainy · coarse · uneven · bumpy

restoration

repair

Restore to working order

matching · restoration · resurfacing · weathered · cracked · damaged · repointing · maintenance · cleaning · sealing

Opposites
surface texture

roughcastssmooth finish

Surface without texture

skim coat · Venetian plaster · smooth coat · satin finish

finish quality/refinement

roughcastsdressed stone

Hewn and smoothed masonry

ashlar

Family

roughcast, roughcasting, roughcasted

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G