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A Tale of Three Sands or What Type of Sand makes for Strong Mortars?

September 8, 2013July 29, 2019 preservationscience
These three aggregates have very different structural capacities for making mortar

The right qualities of sand are crucial in lime mortar making and differ some from brickwork versus plaster and stucco. The increasing inclusion of crushed rock in sand mixes presents particular problems.

Posted in Mortars, Plaster and StuccoTagged aggregate grading, crushed rock mortar, lime-sand mortar, mortar making, mortar packing density, particle shape in mortar

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