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Strawbale Archive for June 2002
241 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:43:05 2002

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Re: SB: Fly ash



Thanx John and Mark.




> Hello Guy,
>
> GuyW wrote:
> > Can you give us the title of that stucco book?
>
> Sure:
>   Stucco Handbook For Builders.
>   by: Herbert Nordmeyer
> It is a pdf file.
>
> I found it on the Internet a while back.
> I have no idea where I got it.  I search high and
> low for it using google and couldn't find it again.  Sorry.
>
> During my search I found this:
>
>
http://www.stocorp.com/othersections.nsf/htmlmedia/Stuccotroubleshooting.pdf
/$file/stuccotroubleshooting.pdf
>
> (that long URL may get wrapped in the email, you may have to
> cut and paste it back together)
>
> In that document, it talks about the causes of map cracking:
>    Excess water or lime
>    Poor aggregate/cement ratio (i.e. not enough aggregate)
>    Poor aggregate gradation
>    Rapid loss of moisture
>
> The first point supports John Salmen's email about lime.
>
> It would be fun to do some experiments with different
> mix ratios to see this effect in action.
>
> cheers,
> John


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