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NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
It worked! We've had a few heating/cooling cycles now and the crack stays gone. There's a few hairline cracks in the surface but those are just from the heat drying the limewash out too fast and a second coat (applied when cold) should get rid of them too.
Thanks to whoever suggested this. Can't remember who, maybe @valentinzi?
#Chimney #Crack #Repair #DIY #Lime #Limewash #Homestead #Sauna
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It worked! We've had a few heating/cooling cycles now and the crack stays gone. There's a few hairline cracks in the surface but those are just from the heat drying the limewash out too fast and a second coat (applied when cold) should get rid of them too.
Thanks to whoever suggested this. Can't remember who, maybe @valentinzi?
#Chimney #Crack #Repair #DIY #Lime #Limewash #Homestead #Sauna
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It worked! We've had a few heating/cooling cycles now and the crack stays gone. There's a few hairline cracks in the surface but those are just from the heat drying the limewash out too fast and a second coat (applied when cold) should get rid of them too.
Thanks to whoever suggested this. Can't remember who, maybe @valentinzi?
#Chimney #Crack #Repair #DIY #Lime #Limewash #Homestead #Sauna
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It worked! We've had a few heating/cooling cycles now and the crack stays gone. There's a few hairline cracks in the surface but those are just from the heat drying the limewash out too fast and a second coat (applied when cold) should get rid of them too.
Thanks to whoever suggested this. Can't remember who, maybe @valentinzi?
#Chimney #Crack #Repair #DIY #Lime #Limewash #Homestead #Sauna
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It worked! We've had a few heating/cooling cycles now and the crack stays gone. There's a few hairline cracks in the surface but those are just from the heat drying the limewash out too fast and a second coat (applied when cold) should get rid of them too.
Thanks to whoever suggested this. Can't remember who, maybe @valentinzi?
#Chimney #Crack #Repair #DIY #Lime #Limewash #Homestead #Sauna
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Limewash is an interesting material. It's not paint, you just throw a bunch of slaked lime into water and keep it there. The longer you keep it under water, the finer it gets.
When you need it, dredge out a quantity of the stuff with enough liquid so it's like creamy yoghurt.
Best applied with a thick brush, likes to splash everywhere and is caustic enough to etch an aluminium ladder, so protect yourself.
It goes on looking thin but hardens by absorbing atmospheric CO2 (yup, carbon capture, or recapture at least) and turns whiter as it does.
Unlike cement and many modern paints, it is moisture permeable and so lets the log "breathe" and not rot underneath.
It's also antibacterial, so used to be applied regularly in animal barns.
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Limewash is an interesting material. It's not paint, you just throw a bunch of slaked lime into water and keep it there. The longer you keep it under water, the finer it gets.
When you need it, dredge out a quantity of the stuff with enough liquid so it's like creamy yoghurt.
Best applied with a thick brush, likes to splash everywhere and is caustic enough to etch an aluminium ladder, so protect yourself.
It goes on looking thin but hardens by absorbing atmospheric CO2 (yup, carbon capture, or recapture at least) and turns whiter as it does.
Unlike cement and many modern paints, it is moisture permeable and so lets the log "breathe" and not rot underneath.
It's also antibacterial, so used to be applied regularly in animal barns.
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Limewash is an interesting material. It's not paint, you just throw a bunch of slaked lime into water and keep it there. The longer you keep it under water, the finer it gets.
When you need it, dredge out a quantity of the stuff with enough liquid so it's like creamy yoghurt.
Best applied with a thick brush, likes to splash everywhere and is caustic enough to etch an aluminium ladder, so protect yourself.
It goes on looking thin but hardens by absorbing atmospheric CO2 (yup, carbon capture, or recapture at least) and turns whiter as it does.
Unlike cement and many modern paints, it is moisture permeable and so lets the log "breathe" and not rot underneath.
It's also antibacterial, so used to be applied regularly in animal barns.
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Limewash is an interesting material. It's not paint, you just throw a bunch of slaked lime into water and keep it there. The longer you keep it under water, the finer it gets.
When you need it, dredge out a quantity of the stuff with enough liquid so it's like creamy yoghurt.
Best applied with a thick brush, likes to splash everywhere and is caustic enough to etch an aluminium ladder, so protect yourself.
It goes on looking thin but hardens by absorbing atmospheric CO2 (yup, carbon capture, or recapture at least) and turns whiter as it does.
Unlike cement and many modern paints, it is moisture permeable and so lets the log "breathe" and not rot underneath.
It's also antibacterial, so used to be applied regularly in animal barns.
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Limewash is an interesting material. It's not paint, you just throw a bunch of slaked lime into water and keep it there. The longer you keep it under water, the finer it gets.
When you need it, dredge out a quantity of the stuff with enough liquid so it's like creamy yoghurt.
Best applied with a thick brush, likes to splash everywhere and is caustic enough to etch an aluminium ladder, so protect yourself.
It goes on looking thin but hardens by absorbing atmospheric CO2 (yup, carbon capture, or recapture at least) and turns whiter as it does.
Unlike cement and many modern paints, it is moisture permeable and so lets the log "breathe" and not rot underneath.
It's also antibacterial, so used to be applied regularly in animal barns.
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Too hot outside, so tackled some work in the kitchen.
The wall where we tore out a rotten old shelf looked ugly. The logs are in reasonable shape for their age but the limewash was due for renewal about half a century ago, mostly flaked off and mixed with a few spills.
There were also gaps where the logs had shrunken from drying.
Last winter we gathered some sphagnum moss in the forest and dried it in the sauna.
Great material, as evidenced by the original moss still being intact after 90 years. Nature's spray foam, minus the cancer.
I used a piece of scrap metal to push it in, which worked well, bit like caulking a wooden boat, although it took the entire bag of moss as it compresses a lot.
#Homestead #DIY #Renovation #LogHouse #Moss #Repair #Limewash
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Too hot outside, so tackled some work in the kitchen.
The wall where we tore out a rotten old shelf looked ugly. The logs are in reasonable shape for their age but the limewash was due for renewal about half a century ago, mostly flaked off and mixed with a few spills.
There were also gaps where the logs had shrunken from drying.
Last winter we gathered some sphagnum moss in the forest and dried it in the sauna.
Great material, as evidenced by the original moss still being intact after 90 years. Nature's spray foam, minus the cancer.
I used a piece of scrap metal to push it in, which worked well, bit like caulking a wooden boat, although it took the entire bag of moss as it compresses a lot.
#Homestead #DIY #Renovation #LogHouse #Moss #Repair #Limewash
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Too hot outside, so tackled some work in the kitchen.
The wall where we tore out a rotten old shelf looked ugly. The logs are in reasonable shape for their age but the limewash was due for renewal about half a century ago, mostly flaked off and mixed with a few spills.
There were also gaps where the logs had shrunken from drying.
Last winter we gathered some sphagnum moss in the forest and dried it in the sauna.
Great material, as evidenced by the original moss still being intact after 90 years. Nature's spray foam, minus the cancer.
I used a piece of scrap metal to push it in, which worked well, bit like caulking a wooden boat, although it took the entire bag of moss as it compresses a lot.
#Homestead #DIY #Renovation #LogHouse #Moss #Repair #Limewash
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Too hot outside, so tackled some work in the kitchen.
The wall where we tore out a rotten old shelf looked ugly. The logs are in reasonable shape for their age but the limewash was due for renewal about half a century ago, mostly flaked off and mixed with a few spills.
There were also gaps where the logs had shrunken from drying.
Last winter we gathered some sphagnum moss in the forest and dried it in the sauna.
Great material, as evidenced by the original moss still being intact after 90 years. Nature's spray foam, minus the cancer.
I used a piece of scrap metal to push it in, which worked well, bit like caulking a wooden boat, although it took the entire bag of moss as it compresses a lot.
#Homestead #DIY #Renovation #LogHouse #Moss #Repair #Limewash
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Too hot outside, so tackled some work in the kitchen.
The wall where we tore out a rotten old shelf looked ugly. The logs are in reasonable shape for their age but the limewash was due for renewal about half a century ago, mostly flaked off and mixed with a few spills.
There were also gaps where the logs had shrunken from drying.
Last winter we gathered some sphagnum moss in the forest and dried it in the sauna.
Great material, as evidenced by the original moss still being intact after 90 years. Nature's spray foam, minus the cancer.
I used a piece of scrap metal to push it in, which worked well, bit like caulking a wooden boat, although it took the entire bag of moss as it compresses a lot.
#Homestead #DIY #Renovation #LogHouse #Moss #Repair #Limewash
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I'm off to put some more #Limewash on a brick wall.
First I'll mix the powder and water while wearing a N95 mask, glasses and gloves and long sleeves.
Then a wash before I rub a little vegetable oil on hands, forearms, knees and forehead. Keep the glasses and long sleeves.
The gloves I'll change if I get limewash inside. I'm no master limewasher.ETA completion is 2 hours.
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I'm off to put some more #Limewash on a brick wall.
First I'll mix the powder and water while wearing a N95 mask, glasses and gloves and long sleeves.
Then a wash before I rub a little vegetable oil on hands, forearms, knees and forehead. Keep the glasses and long sleeves.
The gloves I'll change if I get limewash inside. I'm no master limewasher.ETA completion is 2 hours.
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I'm off to put some more #Limewash on a brick wall.
First I'll mix the powder and water while wearing a N95 mask, glasses and gloves and long sleeves.
Then a wash before I rub a little vegetable oil on hands, forearms, knees and forehead. Keep the glasses and long sleeves.
The gloves I'll change if I get limewash inside. I'm no master limewasher.ETA completion is 2 hours.
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I'm off to put some more #Limewash on a brick wall.
First I'll mix the powder and water while wearing a N95 mask, glasses and gloves and long sleeves.
Then a wash before I rub a little vegetable oil on hands, forearms, knees and forehead. Keep the glasses and long sleeves.
The gloves I'll change if I get limewash inside. I'm no master limewasher.ETA completion is 2 hours.
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I'm off to put some more #Limewash on a brick wall.
First I'll mix the powder and water while wearing a N95 mask, glasses and gloves and long sleeves.
Then a wash before I rub a little vegetable oil on hands, forearms, knees and forehead. Keep the glasses and long sleeves.
The gloves I'll change if I get limewash inside. I'm no master limewasher.ETA completion is 2 hours.
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Been using #Limewash and a no cement, no sand #LimePlaster to change walls and a room into something lighter and fresher.
Since read technical documents and I did the lime plaster wrong.
But in this climate on these bricks, it's worked so far.
And whitewash over old acrylic render maybe shouldn't have worked but has.Here in a lower moisture environment limewash/limeplaster is very forgiving.
Except for eyes - ouch, ouch ouch.
And sratched and abraided skin - mild burns that healed slowly. -
Been using #Limewash and a no cement, no sand #LimePlaster to change walls and a room into something lighter and fresher.
Since read technical documents and I did the lime plaster wrong.
But in this climate on these bricks, it's worked so far.
And whitewash over old acrylic render maybe shouldn't have worked but has.Here in a lower moisture environment limewash/limeplaster is very forgiving.
Except for eyes - ouch, ouch ouch.
And sratched and abraided skin - mild burns that healed slowly. -
Been using #Limewash and a no cement, no sand #LimePlaster to change walls and a room into something lighter and fresher.
Since read technical documents and I did the lime plaster wrong.
But in this climate on these bricks, it's worked so far.
And whitewash over old acrylic render maybe shouldn't have worked but has.Here in a lower moisture environment limewash/limeplaster is very forgiving.
Except for eyes - ouch, ouch ouch.
And sratched and abraided skin - mild burns that healed slowly. -
Been using #Limewash and a no cement, no sand #LimePlaster to change walls and a room into something lighter and fresher.
Since read technical documents and I did the lime plaster wrong.
But in this climate on these bricks, it's worked so far.
And whitewash over old acrylic render maybe shouldn't have worked but has.Here in a lower moisture environment limewash/limeplaster is very forgiving.
Except for eyes - ouch, ouch ouch.
And sratched and abraided skin - mild burns that healed slowly. -
Been using #Limewash and a no cement, no sand #LimePlaster to change walls and a room into something lighter and fresher.
Since read technical documents and I did the lime plaster wrong.
But in this climate on these bricks, it's worked so far.
And whitewash over old acrylic render maybe shouldn't have worked but has.Here in a lower moisture environment limewash/limeplaster is very forgiving.
Except for eyes - ouch, ouch ouch.
And sratched and abraided skin - mild burns that healed slowly. -
Searching the web, looking for a recoat time for #Limewash.
Being lied to by #AIGenerated website content about multiple things limewash and whitewash.
This garbage is being posted by businesses to boost their profitability.
There is freedom of speech on politics and opinions and then there is disseminating factually incorrect technical information.
One of these needs to be criminalised.
(Found a technical bulletin from 2021 with a recoat time of 4hrs at 25 degrees C and 50% rel humidity)
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Searching the web, looking for a recoat time for #Limewash.
Being lied to by #AIGenerated website content about multiple things limewash and whitewash.
This garbage is being posted by businesses to boost their profitability.
There is freedom of speech on politics and opinions and then there is disseminating factually incorrect technical information.
One of these needs to be criminalised.
(Found a technical bulletin from 2021 with a recoat time of 4hrs at 25 degrees C and 50% rel humidity)
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Searching the web, looking for a recoat time for #Limewash.
Being lied to by #AIGenerated website content about multiple things limewash and whitewash.
This garbage is being posted by businesses to boost their profitability.
There is freedom of speech on politics and opinions and then there is disseminating factually incorrect technical information.
One of these needs to be criminalised.
(Found a technical bulletin from 2021 with a recoat time of 4hrs at 25 degrees C and 50% rel humidity)
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Searching the web, looking for a recoat time for #Limewash.
Being lied to by #AIGenerated website content about multiple things limewash and whitewash.
This garbage is being posted by businesses to boost their profitability.
There is freedom of speech on politics and opinions and then there is disseminating factually incorrect technical information.
One of these needs to be criminalised.
(Found a technical bulletin from 2021 with a recoat time of 4hrs at 25 degrees C and 50% rel humidity)
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Searching the web, looking for a recoat time for #Limewash.
Being lied to by #AIGenerated website content about multiple things limewash and whitewash.
This garbage is being posted by businesses to boost their profitability.
There is freedom of speech on politics and opinions and then there is disseminating factually incorrect technical information.
One of these needs to be criminalised.
(Found a technical bulletin from 2021 with a recoat time of 4hrs at 25 degrees C and 50% rel humidity)
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I put on about 6 litres of DIY recipe whitewash today.
Trying to even up the coverage on a rough surfaced and deeply pointed 1970s brick wall.Seeing now I should have mixed up a thick lime putty and filled all the deeper crevasses first thing - getting limewash into them takes too long. So putty next
Still hopeful that it'll take just one more coat after the putty. And then it'll all look like wedding cake icing.
PS. I learnt to wear goggles doing the first coat Ouch.
#Whitewash #Limewash -
I put on about 6 litres of DIY recipe whitewash today.
Trying to even up the coverage on a rough surfaced and deeply pointed 1970s brick wall.Seeing now I should have mixed up a thick lime putty and filled all the deeper crevasses first thing - getting limewash into them takes too long. So putty next
Still hopeful that it'll take just one more coat after the putty. And then it'll all look like wedding cake icing.
PS. I learnt to wear goggles doing the first coat Ouch.
#Whitewash #Limewash -
I put on about 6 litres of DIY recipe whitewash today.
Trying to even up the coverage on a rough surfaced and deeply pointed 1970s brick wall.Seeing now I should have mixed up a thick lime putty and filled all the deeper crevasses first thing - getting limewash into them takes too long. So putty next
Still hopeful that it'll take just one more coat after the putty. And then it'll all look like wedding cake icing.
PS. I learnt to wear goggles doing the first coat Ouch.
#Whitewash #Limewash -
I put on about 6 litres of DIY recipe whitewash today.
Trying to even up the coverage on a rough surfaced and deeply pointed 1970s brick wall.Seeing now I should have mixed up a thick lime putty and filled all the deeper crevasses first thing - getting limewash into them takes too long. So putty next
Still hopeful that it'll take just one more coat after the putty. And then it'll all look like wedding cake icing.
PS. I learnt to wear goggles doing the first coat Ouch.
#Whitewash #Limewash -
I put on about 6 litres of DIY recipe whitewash today.
Trying to even up the coverage on a rough surfaced and deeply pointed 1970s brick wall.Seeing now I should have mixed up a thick lime putty and filled all the deeper crevasses first thing - getting limewash into them takes too long. So putty next
Still hopeful that it'll take just one more coat after the putty. And then it'll all look like wedding cake icing.
PS. I learnt to wear goggles doing the first coat Ouch.
#Whitewash #Limewash -
@architecture
Splashed #Limewash / #Whitewash on a window.And also wondered about using it in hot weather.Whitewash has been extensively used to reduce heat coming into greenhouses. And would doubtless function that way for domestic dwellings.
Pros
More effective / reflective than yoghurt?
Cheaper over large areas?Cons
More risk to eyes/skin when applying / removing.
Prob more mess on and off. -
@architecture
Splashed #Limewash / #Whitewash on a window.And also wondered about using it in hot weather.Whitewash has been extensively used to reduce heat coming into greenhouses. And would doubtless function that way for domestic dwellings.
Pros
More effective / reflective than yoghurt?
Cheaper over large areas?Cons
More risk to eyes/skin when applying / removing.
Prob more mess on and off. -
@architecture
Splashed #Limewash / #Whitewash on a window.And also wondered about using it in hot weather.Whitewash has been extensively used to reduce heat coming into greenhouses. And would doubtless function that way for domestic dwellings.
Pros
More effective / reflective than yoghurt?
Cheaper over large areas?Cons
More risk to eyes/skin when applying / removing.
Prob more mess on and off. -
@architecture
Splashed #Limewash / #Whitewash on a window.And also wondered about using it in hot weather.Whitewash has been extensively used to reduce heat coming into greenhouses. And would doubtless function that way for domestic dwellings.
Pros
More effective / reflective than yoghurt?
Cheaper over large areas?Cons
More risk to eyes/skin when applying / removing.
Prob more mess on and off. -
@architecture
Splashed #Limewash / #Whitewash on a window.And also wondered about using it in hot weather.Whitewash has been extensively used to reduce heat coming into greenhouses. And would doubtless function that way for domestic dwellings.
Pros
More effective / reflective than yoghurt?
Cheaper over large areas?Cons
More risk to eyes/skin when applying / removing.
Prob more mess on and off. -
Early tourists to Wales often remarked upon and complained about the lime washed cottages, finding the white blinding, but many of the pigments used were softer shades, as the ruins of many still testify.
#welshcottages
#limewash -
Early tourists to Wales often remarked upon and complained about the lime washed cottages, finding the white blinding, but many of the pigments used were softer shades, as the ruins of many still testify.
#welshcottages
#limewash -
Early tourists to Wales often remarked upon and complained about the lime washed cottages, finding the white blinding, but many of the pigments used were softer shades, as the ruins of many still testify.
#welshcottages
#limewash -
Early tourists to Wales often remarked upon and complained about the lime washed cottages, finding the white blinding, but many of the pigments used were softer shades, as the ruins of many still testify.
#welshcottages
#limewash