Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Hans Vitzthum

Karl J Rauterkus

Josef Mondt

Werner Stelzel

Heinz Lehmann

Absorptive substrates, such as asbestos cement, concrete plaster work, can be impregnated to lock the pores and to consolidate the substrate, especially old and weathered plaster work, with aqueous plastics dispersions, if dispersions are used which have an average particle size of about 0.02 to at most 0.1.mu.m, and preferably from 0.036 to 0.080.mu.m. As opposed to conventional dispersions with larger particle sizes, the penetration of dispersions according to the invention reaches the same values as that of the solvent-based impregnating and priming compositions hitherto used. Aqueous dispersions are easier to handle and permit relatively high solids contents at a moderate viscosity.

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