How to skim coat cement plaster or render plaster over cinder block walls

White Stucco over block retaining walls.
White stucco by Hansons or by Eisenwall.

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youtu.be/dw34VLYFC1Y/ Plastering block walls with cement.
youtu.be/LW9Dwxl2W4c/ Stucco over concrete walls removed from board lines.
youtu.be/MbZHkJCJuZ8/ Stucco your brick walls with green-core cement.
youtu.be/d3sHR8KD16c/ Stucco acrylic going old stucco finish.

If you mix a white stucco such as Lehigh's White cement with tan sand, the color is Tan. This will never have to be painted again.
That's correct. The color lasts hundreds of years as it's integrated into the finish like a brick.
One never needs to scrape primer and paint bricks, and they retain their color for hundreds of years.
Think about that saving?😉

Home Depot, Loews, and other smaller hardware stores carry their user-friendly version called "rapid set Stucco," where you, as homeowners, add water. The mix is the same for 3 to 5 minutes and then applied for patchwork.

FYI, this video was filmed in 2012. So the methods of application we are using here have been used for over a hundred years and will continue to be applied this way forever.