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CREATE THE PERFECT BASECOAT: The perfect stucco finish starts with a great basecoat. For spreading perfectly smooth basecoats of Venetian plaster, marmorino, stucco, masonry mortars, cement, drywall mud, and tile grouting.
MARMORINO ESSENTIAL: The #1 most popular use for our Flamingo Sponge Float is smoothing the first coat of matte marmorino or tadelakt. These high-end finishes are applied with a steel trowel then smoothed with a wet sponge. Matte plaster is on-trend and this tool should be in your toolkit to get the right look.
APPLY TOPCOATS AND SEALERS: Use the sponge trowel anywhere you might use a sponge or rag and give your wrists a break with our handle grip. We love to use a sponge trowel to apply most clear sealers and metallic waxes to Venetian plaster. Just remember that unsealed plaster is porous so use a clear sealer first before adding a color wash or mica powders.
SHOW OFF YOUR STYLE: Bold pink handle because plaster finishing is not just a job. You create unbelievable walls. You're a badass and you love what you do! Wash them, reuse them, cherish your tools.
FANTASTIC QUALITY, BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT: We've been manufacturing and testing the highest quality stucco tools in Italy for over 50 years. We guarantee you'll love our plaster and masonry floats and promise they will be free of defects so you can focus on what you were meant to do, creating killer walls.

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The Flamingo Sponge Float weighs just 8-ounces and is designed for precise smoothing and topcoat application.

When using the tools for smoothing, we typically recommend applying the plaster with your steel trowel, then before the material has had time to dry completely, soak the sponge trowel with water and run it across the surface.

It's also great for applying clear sealers, like soap de Marseille, beeswax, paste wax, Venetian plaster wax, dead flat varnish, or even decorative color washes or metallic waxes. If you're applying a clear sealer, remember try not to let any excess material collect and remove excess with the blade of your stainless steel or pvc trowel. If excess sealer is allowed to collect on the surface and dry, it could cause a cloudy appearance or drip marks or lines. Try not to leave any obvious straight lines in your application and apply the coating in random, scalloped motions if necessary in order to avoid lines.

If you're applying a color wash or metallic wax, we recommend applying a clear sealer first, and allowing it to dry and/or buff before applying your decorative wax with our sponge float because the porosity of the unsealed plaster will cause it to get took dark too fast. Sealing it first will give you more working time.