How do I make Lime Mortar - for Ziggy!

Blimey, there was a thread title I couldn't ignore

You could make a stack of pallets & layers of chalk, you need to get it to about 900c to drive the CO2 off.

You need to be able to contain it, a pit was traditionally dug in the side of a chalk hill, fire built in the bottom & fuel & chalk added from above.

The resulting lump lime, calcium oxide, is extremly reactive, when water is poured on it, it will boil in 3 seconds, with an extremly violent explosive gloppingness.

This is done in a lime pit, dug into the ground or built above ground, you need to contain it while its turning into calcium hydroxide.

Very hot, needs stirring & takes 3 months to slake properly.

Thats your basic lime putty, you mix that 3 to 1 with aggregate & thats your lime mortar.

Anything after that then "Follys & Ruins R Us"

I could make you something brand new that looks a thousand years old, every garden should have a "Ruin"

 

I'll be round, might have to do it on day rates though

I've built ruins that have fooled the mighty