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   rez | Aug 07, 2006 07:10pm | #1

   Greetings whale,

   This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.

   Perhaps it will catch someone's attention that can help you with advice.

   Cheers

   "The old Quaker Meeting house is almost 300 years old and as my sawzall made its way into the pegged ancient wood, a smell emerged that told me about dried, cracked things. The ancient Quakers sitting in the well worn pocket of their silence on the darkened pine benches were whispering something to me across the years.  Something about why I was here, why we're here.  Lord but it was hot. I reached in to clear anything out of what was the sill, nothing but the hardened mud, lime and sand mortar, dust and shadows."  -- Jer

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   dedubya | Aug 07, 2006 08:14pm | #2

   Whale, this is what I would do, have done, got paid,customer

    satisfied! bottom line.I would use type "S"

   mortar mix to make  a parge coat finish,that would be

   good for about a 3/4" thick or less coating on your rock

   wall , if not thick enough, build it up in 1/2" coats with

    the first being the scratch coat. I use a plastisizer in my mix

   to help with workablity and to give the mortar some weatherproofing.

   I use a universal mix of 11 squarepoint shovelfuls of sand to a half

   bag of mortar, I get the plastisizer from -Quickpoint mortar gun co.-

    they sell it as their pump aid.I also use just a plastering trowell

   or a pool trowel a 4X10 size fits my hand nicely ,others may get

   real technical but this is what works for me.

   also dampen the wall before applying the mud, and remove any

   loose dust, mortar chuncks , ant carcuses what have ya from the area.   D.W.

   
   

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   Edited 8/7/2006 1:18 pm ET by dedubya

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   whaleninc2000 | Aug 08, 2006 01:22am | #3

   Thanks dedubya.

   JW