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Old 05-02-2008, 08:34 PM
PeterW PeterW is offline
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Default Re: UK Suppliers for Fireclay (again...)

Hi George

How's things...? Nice to see you've got things on the go - when did you start...?

On the Ciment Fondu thing, I'm a bit surprised you need 100kg ! That would indicate needing around 400kg of Sand, which would be a lot of mortar ! The page hereCiment FonduŽ gives you and idea of the mix.

Interestingly, ciment fondu is banned for building use in some countries - it becomes porous over a period of time and weakens. Not sure if I'd want to trust my dome to that !

There have been a few queries about what to put in instead of the fireclay - a standard mortar mix may work, but as I've still got the dome to do, I'm probably not the one to say !

Need to catch up for a beer sometime

Cheers

Peter
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