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Matt[_7_]

wrote:
I have made lime paint from lawn lime, some mineral oil and water,back
when my dog chewed on his house (1970s) and I wanted something safer.
That was decades ago and lime spills on the concrete are pretty
permanent, In Greece, they paint brick buildings with quicklime. The
big difference is here in the States lime is dolomitic, which means it
has a lot of magnesium, not just calcium. (In Greece, they use lime to
stiffen fruit preserves.) Would this work instead of repointing the
bricks?

I am concerned because I took a PDH (engineering continuing ed) on
waterproofing five years ago and they taught us the main lesson was to
show the water the way out rather than stop it. They showed us one guy
who had put roof tar/asphalt on the inside of the wall surrounding the
roof and when the waterproofers poked the roof wall with a stick it
spouted water like Moses got.

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