[Strawbale] Natural Hydraulic lime vs. Hydrated lime?

[Rob Tom]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:29:14 -0500, David Elfstrom <listbox at elfstrom.com>  
wrote:

> You want Natural Hydraulic Lime. Almost certainly the one you saw in the
> feed store's catalog was hydrated lime.

> Raftercat5 at aol.com wrote:

>> We thought
>> we found a source locally, an animal feed store.   I think it was  
>> hydrated
>> lime that was listed in the store's book that we can  order.


Raftercat;

The hydrated lime that you saw in the feed store catalogue will almost  
certainly be agricultural lime (ie low grade, for amending soil) and  
unsuitable for plastering (ie too many impurities left in it from the  
calcining process.

For plastering quality hydrated lime, you'd need to visit a plastering  
contractors' supply house. (ie check you local Yellow Pages directory).


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Rob Tom
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