[Strawbale] Mixing S Type Lime in a Mortar Mixer

[Rob Tom]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:41:29 -0400, Debbie Johnson-Jackson  
<strawfly207 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 	Does anyone have experience, proportions and/or pointers for mixing
> S Type lime in a mortar mixer?
> We would like to mix and slake all the lime we will need to do our
> lime plastering.

Debbie;

Don't know about Type S lime or mortar mixers but when slaking lime, the  
dry material is best be seived onto the surface of the water,  allowing  
the water to absorb the dry material (actually it's the other way around,  
technically) before adding any more.

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