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Hello Andy,<br>
<br>
I would like to receive your pdf on your traditional plaster.<br>
I only once used cow manure (in India) and was very happy with the
result. But they were very free roaming indian cows ;-)<br>
<br>
Bye,<br>
André <br>
France<br>
<br>
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Le 19/04/2011 15:12, Andy Horn a écrit :
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;">Hi
all<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;">I
am busy with 3 large straw bale public
building, coating in a thick dipping of earth plaster and
well worked in to the
bales, which we are protecting with 2 top coats of lime,
sand, cow dung and
clay water plaster using a recipe I learnt from an old
builder Herbert whom was
taught it by his grandfather for the plastering of the
adobe buildings of his old
Moravian mission town.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;">We
are having a bit of difficulty getting
sufficient supplies of fresh cow dung near our site in
Johannesburg, however we
have located a nearby feedlot, where the stuff is readily
available only thing
is that I are wondering if this kind of cow dung would
still be suitable ….as
I imagine it would have less fibre than cow dung sourced
from free ranging
cattle. Apparently the cows at the feeding station are fed
on about 10%
hay/grass and 90% grain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;">What
Herbert our old heritage builder tells
us is that it should be fine so long as they are fed some
fibre and that indeed
he has made use of such cow dung before and one cannot
even tell the difference.
For him the more important thing is that the cow dung is
fresh …i.e. no
more than 3 days old. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;">So
anyhow I was wondering if any of you
lot out there have any with experience in using feed-lot
cow dung for their
plasters and if you have come up against similar issues in
terms of what the cows
get to eat affecting the quality of the cow dung before
and if you have any
opinions/experience with this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;">Incidentally
the plaster mix that we get
with this receipt is particularly good. It is both very
strong and extremely durable
as well as being particularly forgiving and really easy to
work with as lime
plasters typically go. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="green" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;">So
if any of you are interested I could
email you a pdf document directly ( please respond to me
separately on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za">andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za</a>
….do not reply to the whole mailing group) that I have
written up on the
process…as I am not sure I can mail it to this address
direct….unless
you want me upload it somewhere. Joyce I would be more
than happy for you
to print it up in a forthcoming “Last Straw” magazine too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang="EN-US">cheers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang="EN-US">Andy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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