[Cob] How warm must it be to work?

[Joseph R Dupont]

Well  I made up some paperpulp kitty litter slurry and troweled it on an
old interior basement wall.
It was a rough wall that was once on the outsid eof my house. No it is on
the inside of an addition.
The mixture went on really nice and stuck very nicely.
I'll be interested as to how it will look tomorrow.  It would seem a very
cheap way of giving a finished look
to cinder block are near zero expense. I assume you could do this with
papercrete.
Thank's for the encouragement.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:36:00 -0400 Joseph R Dupont <joedupont at juno.com>
writes:
> thank you thank you .. thank you..
> 
> Joe
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:51:54 -0700 (PDT) "Shannon C. Dealy"
> <dealy at deatech.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Joseph R Dupont wrote:
> > 
> > > What is the deal with kitty litter. Is it clay or not?
> > > If it is could you mix it with paperpulp and  make some kind of 
> 
> > adobe?
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Not sure what this has to do with the oven discussion, but most if 
> 
> > not all
> > "clumping" cat litters are nothing but ground up, dried, bentonite 
> 
> > clay
> > (in some cases with additives, though if you look for the more 
> > generic
> > brands, they are often pure clay -- check the label).  I'm not
> > sure about the make up of other types of cat litters, probably
> > best to check the label.  Bentonite can be very useful as an 
> > additive for
> > certain types of mixtures (like paints and plasters), but it 
> expands 
> > and
> > contracts massively when it gets wet/dries, so cracking is 
> > inevitable if
> > it is a significant part of the mix (a little goes a long ways).  
> 
> > I've
> > been using it as an emulsifier in some experiemental floor mixes.  
> 
> > The big
> > advantages of cat litter are that it is ground up so it mixes 
> > readily, and
> > you can buy small quantities (10 to 50 lbs) at your local grocery 
> 
> > store.
> > 
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