[Cob] Mosaics in the shower

[Jill Hogan]

  Using gloves we pick the leaves and then cut them up into a barrel. 
Wetop it up with water and leave the leaves brewing for three weeks at 
least. We then sive the leaves out and slake our lime int  the prickly 
pear water. We get a lovely creamy render mix that very rarely cracks. I 
also use this mixture watered down and with salt added for a paint over 
my buildings. As we live in the semi desert with intense heat in summer 
we get massive expansion and contraction so paint the buildings every 
year, just before the rainy season in winter,  I am in South Africa in 
what we call the Karoo.

On 2010/08/16 10:22 PM, Ron Becker wrote:
> Please let us know how it holds up. And sometime let us know how you 
> went about harvesting the cactus. We have lot's of that here in New 
> Mexico. It's a big part of the animal food chain. People too. The 
> fruit is sweet, people make jelly and wine with it. Probably where you 
> are too. Are you not in Africa somewhere? You [ and everyone on the 
> planet ] might want to take a look at this link.
>
> http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html
>
>
> Just when you got your mind around the implications of peak oil. There 
> is this from...  From the Wilderness:
> [Some months ago, concerned by a Paris statement made by Professor 
> Kenneth Deffeyes of Princeton regarding his concern about the impact 
> of Peak Oil and Gas on fertilizer production, I tasked FTW's 
> Contributing Editor for Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer to start looking 
> into what natural gas shortages would do to fertilizer production 
> costs. His investigation led him to look at the totality of food 
> production in the US. Because the US and Canada feed much of the 
> world, the answers have global implications.]
>
> It's hard to mix cob when there is no water. So it is extremely 
> relevant to our passion for mud. It is long and dark and important 
> that more people are aware of how these well known forces in nature 
> can feed off each other to create the perfect debacle. It just takes 
> just a little more heat to get things rolling.
>
>
> Ron
> Living and playing outside the box.
>
> http://www.myspace.com/ron45becker
>
> On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Jill Hogan wrote:
>
>>  Ron thanks so much will cover again and agin with  prickly pear 
>> juice, have it fermenting at the moment
>>
>> On 2010/08/16 08:32 PM, Ron Becker wrote:
>>> More prickly pear juice. If you want to keep it natural, you could 
>>> try a mix of maybe kaolin clay and marble dust or the like as grog 
>>> to set it in, would give you a fairly light color.  altho you might 
>>> have to work from bottom to top and allow some drying time to keep 
>>> it from slumping. Not sure how sticky that mix would be. There are 
>>> many glues that are from natural sources that might help in reducing 
>>> the setup time. A person with better answers is Carol Crews in Toas. 
>>> Great lady. Just search her name on the web she is very nice to talk 
>>> to.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>> Living and playing outside the box.
>>>
>>> http://www.myspace.com/ron45becker
>>>
>>> On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Jill Hogan wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi we want to put mosaics in the shower of Little Cottage. Two 
>>>> walls are cob and one is wattle and daub. All three are cover with 
>>>> a lime render. We add prickly pear juice to the render which acts 
>>>> as waterproofing. What do we use to set the mosaics to the wall and 
>>>> do we need to seal them and if we do with what do we seal them. 
>>>> Appreciate any advice on this.
>>>> Many thanks
>>>> Jill
>>>> You can see the little cottage on www.mat.org.za
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