How to Make Lime Cement DIY with traditional principles
We made a temporary lime kiln to burn some lime and make it into lime mortar as part of a lime mortar course for traditional Scottish stone restoration. This video shows the steps to build your own kiln using concrete blocks, 2 buckets of coal and a bucket of limestone.
The second video shows how we turned it into lime mortar and waterproof white wash!
This video was recorded while I was on "Introduction to Masonry Repairs in Traditional Buildings (P1)" by the Scottish Lime Centre.
This is part 2 of the Kiln
• Lime Kiln 2
Then we looked at making lime mortar
• Lime Mortar Experiment (Masonry Repair Pt 1)
You can also use it to make waterproof whitewash. It’s excellent for protecting external walls and buildings.
• How to make Waterproof Limewash The Tradit...
These techniques could be very useful for developing countries where cement is very expensive compared to labour costs. The solution is to take a night to build a kiln and make your own lime cement. We have been doing this in Scotland for hundreds of years. It’s what’s protected our buildings from the weather.
Every farm had their own little kiln so they could make their own lime cement, mortar and paint within 24 hours.
I did this all as a traditional lime work course at the Scottish Lime Centre.
http://www.scotlime.org