[Greenbuilding] Hot Tub Building

[Clarke Olsen]

     With any concrete work, it is advisable to avoid cold joints 
(separate layers not curing
     at the same time). Forget "chicken wire", what you want is expanded 
wire lath.
     Clarke Olsen

On Aug 11, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Speireag Alden wrote:

> Sgrìobh Ken Beiser:
>
>> The ferro-cement is
>> actually easier and can be pretty free form.  Not really that much 
>> concrete
>> when push comes to shove.  The idea is to make a form and stretch 
>> chicken
>> wire over it in multiple layers tied together and then pull the form 
>> and
>> "plaster" from the inside and out at the same time.
>
>      How do you accomplish that, the inside-and-out at the same time?
> I've heard of ferrocement, but I always had the impression that it
> was done in multiple layers, permitting the first to cure enough that
> it provided a substrate for the second.
>
> -Speireag.