SB: RE: Mud Daubing

["David Wagner" <dwagner@sa.kevric.com>]

I have evil expansive clay notorious in this area for busting up
cement slabs and black from old organic matter ground into it over
many years of cattle grazing done before the land was subdivided in
the 1940s.  As a material, some of it is dense and workable enough to
form into ashtrays.  Since it hasn't rained in far too long, the
cracked-dry-riverbed look (1" cracks) is obvious under the
dormant-to-dying grass.

I don't think it would remain friendly if plastered on a wall and
exposed to horizontally blown rain then dryed at 100F as happens
occasionally, but does this clay soil seem suitable for the daubing
techniques described if the wall is to be plastered in lime stucco?

Appreciating the Pointers

-David

P.S.  Please pardon the prior double post.


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