Our limecrete floor is down and has dried out nicely. Now it’s time to use a completely different type of lime to start filling in the holes in the stone walls of our Portuguese farmhouse. In this video we’ll show you how we’ve been hot mixing quicklime (or cal viva in Portuguese) and preparing the walls for plastering.
Since we’ve got a lot of lime work ahead of us, it’s high time Kylie had a go with a trowel and a hawk. I’m sure she’ll pick it up in no time…
For more on our DIY renovation of this beautiful stone house, check out our BUILD playlist.
good job guys. Wondering if you could slake the lime and store and add sand as and when required. Also not sure if you know whether this lime is used on straw bales.
Guys your doing great but have you tried piping the lime putty into the cracks as tho you’re icing a cake ?
Piping bags! 😀
I think I would run a metal detector over those walls before I close them in. Just saying?
no! i think you should most DEFINATELY put the cardboard on the new floors also!!! way to hard to try to keep the stuff from falling onto the floor, just easier if you have the cardboard there anyway – even in the middle, in case you step in the stuff closer to the wall and track it across the room HEHE. Just my thought on matter HEHE.
awesome. as per!
with that mortar and trowel, fling-it into those deep crevasses! 🙂
I've got a schist building but put together with clay so will I need to chip out the clay first?
Olá
Gosto de ver o vosso esforço eu também desde 2013 que ando a fazer obras na minha casa no Alentejo devagar porque é tudo muito caro aprecio a vossa persistência eu sou portuguesa e já me deparei com alguns vigaristas imagino vocês que não são portugueses .
😭Um abraço Célia.
You have so much work to do that you may want a pump sprayer.
Great video
We have actually melted a bucket when mixing some hot lime mortar. We learned a lot from the book by Nigel Copsey.
I thought the holes in the walls were for wooden scaffolding
I think that it must feel like you're building house up now instead of pulling things down…which must feel fantastic.
You two are so knowledgeable ,keep up great work! Your progress seems to be moving right along.
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You are also developing key dentistry skills. One to think about for the future?
I’ve also seen those little nooks in the stone walls as a spot to put your candle.
Before you know it, it will be finished.
Sloooow
You can get smaller trowels to push the lime mix into the cracks better when you have smaller cracks…. see indie projects barn vonversion… they did the pointing on that after ther rebuilt the walls.
the longer the lime/sand/water mix is stored, the better!
I needed for my walls 25kg/m2…all the wholes took a lot!