Building with Lime

A practical introduction

By: Stafford Holmes, Michael Wingate

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The most common raw material for making lime is limestone, which is one of the world's most abundant minerals, widely available in many countries. Lime has many other uses, but this book is specifically about its use in building and construction, for which it has a proven track record through several millennia. Despite this long and successful history, in recent times it has been largely neglected whilst ordinary Portland cement has dominated the market. Building with Lime seeks to rectify this situation. The book is a revised, updated and improved edition of the very successful one of the same title, by the same authors, published by the same organization in 1997. This book is intended as a starting point for those considering lime as a building material, and as a general reference to the broad range of uses for lime in construction. It shows how to make the best use of different types of lime, whether extracted locally or transported from further afield. The book provides information that will assist manufacturers, policy-makers, investors, suppliers, and the builders and owners or users of the buildings themselves to understand the value of lime.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Dedication	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
An approach to using lime	p. 1
Lime: a versatile binder	p. 1
Characteristics of limes	p. 2
Air limes, hydraulic limes, and those in between	p. 4
What limes do in buildings	p. 4
Specifying building limes	p. 6
What lime is and how it is prepared	p. 8
Introduction	p. 8
Preparation	p. 9
Hydraulic limes	p. 12
Pozzolanic additives	p. 14
Magnesian limes	p. 14
Tools and equipment	p. 16
Tools for lime	p. 16
Plant and equipment	p. 17
Setting-out tools	p. 23
Plasterers' tools	p. 28
Masons' tools and additional equipment	p. 42
Limewashes	p. 49
Uses and qualities	p. 49
Preparation of a basic limewash	p. 50
Additives to the basic limewash	p. 53
Applying limewash	p. 56
Performance standards and trial mixes	p. 58
Lime mortars	p. 60
Definition of mortar	p. 60
Performance	p. 60
Basic materials for mortar	p. 63
Additives	p. 65
Mortar preparation	p. 67
Mortar from non-hydraulic (Class A) quicklime	p. 70
Mortar from hydraulic (Class C) quicklime	p. 71
Mix proportions	p. 72
Application of mortar	p. 72
Trial mixes	p. 75
Plain lime plastering for interiors	p. 77
Introduction	p. 77
Tools	p. 77
Backgrounds	p. 77
Materials for lime plastering	p. 83
Plain lime plaster application	p. 88
Texture and finishes	p. 98
Ceilings	p. 99
Gauging with gypsum or plaster of Paris	p. 101
External renders and thrown finishes	p. 103
Introduction	p. 103
Tools	p. 105
Backgrounds	p. 106
Materials	p. 106
External lime render, mixes and applications	p. 110
Thrown finishes	p. 112
Traditional Indian renders	p. 117
Lime gauging, daub and earth finishes	p. 120
Gauging with Portland cement	p. 121
Identification of faults	p. 122
Decorative plasterwork	p. 127
Introduction	p. 127
Run mouldings	p. 127
Cast moulds	p. 134
Pargeting	p. 138
Modelling stucco in situ	p. 140
Depeter	p. 143
Carved and diapered plaster	p. 144
Sgraffito	p. 146
Italian stuccos	p. 148
Stabilization and other mixes incorporating lime	p. 152
Earth stabilization	p. 152
Daub construction	p. 154
Pise de terre or rammed earth	p. 156
Lime-stabilized earth bricks and blocks	p. 157
Lime and cow dung rendering and pargeting	p. 163
Renders and slurries for soil structures	p. 164
Roof finishes	p. 166
Tar and lime coating	p. 167
Calcium silicate bricks and components	p. 168
Substructure: floors, roads and lime concrete	p. 171
Floors and paving	p. 171
Roads	p. 178
Lime concrete	p. 182
Hydraulic mortar and concrete specifications	p. 186
Lime concrete canal lining in India	p. 189
Water mortars for making lime concretes	p. 190
Limestone recognition, testing and standards	p. 193
Field investigation	p. 193
Geological origin of rocks	p. 194
Limestone recognition	p. 195
Field tests for lime	p. 203
Field tests for sand, pozzolans and mortars	p. 216
Field tests for soil stabilization	p. 223
Standard test methods	p. 227
National standards	p. 237
Maintenance guidelines	p. 240
Introduction	p. 240
Structural movement	p. 240
Roof coverings	p. 241
Rainwater goods above ground	p. 241
Drainage below ground	p. 242
Sanitary fittings	p. 242
Maintaining wall finishes	p. 243
Maintaining ceilings and decorative plasterwork	p. 246
Metalwork	p. 249
Floors	p. 249
Roads and paths	p. 250
Vegetation	p. 250
Summary	p. 251
References and bibliography	p. 252
Glossary	p. 259
Appendices	p. 280
Proposed classification of building limes by hydraulicity	p. 280
Pozzolans: natural and artificial	p. 282
Sieve gauge and mesh size conversion table	p. 285
Select list of national standards	p. 286
Minerals associated with common limestone chemicals	p. 290
Chemical analysis of hydraulic limes and natural cements	p. 292
Effects of the addition of pure limes to natural hydraulic limes	p. 293
Suitability of soils for the addition of lime	p. 294
Recommended quantities of gypsum for gauging internal lime plaster	p. 295
Comparative crushing strengths of mortars and associated building materials	p. 296
Properties of bricks and blocks	p. 297
Comparative compressive strengths of traditional British lime mortars with those given in some European standards	p. 299
Conversion tables	p. 300
Index	p. 301
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