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Default Lime or cement mortar?

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Tim Lamb writes:
When this farmhouse was rebuilt, the builders added a couple of shovels
of lime to the mix to *whiten* the end result.


You can buy white cement, if you are just concerned about colour
matching (probably need to go to a good builder's merchant.
Sand can have a lot of pigment in it too -- that varies enormously.

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