Cob: Foundation S-lime stabilizing

[Charmaine R Taylor]

Kim, visit the two sites below.  traditionally 2-8%  volume dry hydrate 
lime  when mixed with clay soil  ( by volume) will stabilize it.  around 
muddy building sites bagged lime is spread and trucks and cars run over 
it in the course of daily activity, and this solves the problem.

The state of TX, Australian housing development builders and large US  
plants with  heavy equipment weighing thousands of tons ( like an 
electric power plant) have  mixed in lime to the soils to make it more 
load bearing. The entire Dallas airport runway system was lime 
stabilized in the 1970's to bear large planes.

NLA sells booklets, and I also carry documents of lime:soil stabilizing 
at the webstore.

National Lime Association at http://www.lime.org
Has many low cost booklets on technical aspects of lime.

Lime Online italy at http://www.limeonline.it
Has many good articles in English

Ms. Charmaine  Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com    http://www.papercrete.com
PO Box 375, Cutten (Eureka) CA 95534
  tms at northcoast.com