On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:04:22 +0100, "Doctor Evil"
wrote:

These days you will not get away without a rigid foundation

True

so why all this
lime mortar, that is good for old building that move on poor foundations

True

but pretty inappropriate, and expensive, for a modern building.

Why do you consider it inappropriate? There is nothing inherently
wrong with using lime for modern rigid building

At the moment its expensive compared to concrete. Delivered to site in
silos the cost of lime mortar is (from memory) four times the price of
concrete.

If lime becomes more widely used there will be increasing economies of
scale and also lime takes much less energy to produce than does
concrete which will definitely be in its favour as oil prices
increase, which they will.

Anna


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