SB: RE: Re: manure plaster

["Dane S. Judd" <dsjudd@entelchile.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert W. Tom <ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>
To: <strawbale@crest.org>; <rtc@overland.net>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:18 PM
Subject: SB: Re: manure plaster


> In so-called "less developed" cultures ...........the dung of ruminants
has long been recognised as an admixture which
> enhances workability, adhesion and durability.

According to a cookbook about the Indian (as in the country of India)
cuisine, the women still apply cow dung each day to the kitchen floors (the
men are not permitted by the women to enter the kitchens).  This is applied
by hand each evening and allowed to dry during the night.  It is done even
in the houses of the highest socio-economic levels.


> It's not really "manure plaster" ... it's earthen plaster with a manure
> admixture, and as is always the case with admixtures, it doesn't take much
to
> achieve the desired enhancements while the addition of too much will
likely
> result in a weakening of the finished plaster.
>

What sort of earth is required if one is mixing it with cow-patties?  Is the
clay content still important?  How much lime putty (roughly) would be
required?

> So how's that for a heap ?


I have always suspected that you are full of it.


Dane
Valparaíso, Chile
starting rafters tomorrow.






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