The Kremer website http://www.kremer-pigmente.de/englisch/homee.htm , in the newsletter section, is claiming they have a reproduction of the brush which was used for painting lime and calcimite up to 100 years ago. It is made from vegetable fibers and designed to hold the watery mixtures better than today's brushes. In know of no further information. Is this a brush widely available in Europe? I assume it is a painter's brush, not an artists brush

A french mason would have some good stories and tales. Much of Paris exterior work was actual gypsum plaster - not lime mortar. It was cheaper and faster to slap on some new plaster every couple of years, rather than do a full mortar and cement stucco. The European mortar workers are a whole different world from Canada and the USA.

Did you actually contact Lime.org. This is free booklet they used to publish -the recipes will be stark without the old black and white drawings etc. If it is no longer available, give me a fax number by private post. Scans are time consuming in email.

Harry has also offered some improvements to the recipes, for example you can use skim milk instead of casein and water, which I will also include. He also kindly advises that formaldehyde is no longer available.

I'm sure he won't mind me mentioning that there is a new lime paint going to hit the market that is anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, yet non-toxic to any higher life forms. He says that it will kill germs but not worms for example. It is interesting that it works by blocking the lime from absorbing CO2. Straight lime is highly anti-germ, until it recarbonates, and then it is as the same as limestone or marble.

Lets share recipes and maybe write a new booklet on whitewash and cold water paints. It is about time someone promoted something which is beautiful and of benefit to the environment. It is still the only paint to use in damp areas such as basements, etc.

Ilia - this booklet is eight 8 1/2" pages, folded in half. Any way you can use it on this site? I could scan.

I'm restoring a 200 yr old springhouse on our farm and just whitewashed one of the walls following the recommendations of the Danish web page on whitewashing techniques. I love the way it turned out and the fact that it is quickly acquiring some "character" of its own (i.e. pollen-laden rainwater running off the tarp causing a lovely yellow stain on my day-old wash job.)

Curt Mason
White House Farm (named for the white color achieved through 200 yr old whitewashing)
Summit Point, wv,, <http://www.geocities.com/cmasonnos/whitehousefarm.html>

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Secondly, unlike every other website I've used, when I fill out text massages such as this one on your site, and then click on preview, when I go back to make changes, you do not remember what I've typed in already and I have to rewrite the whole d*%$## thing. , so I'm not a happy camper about that either.

Hope this clarifies things for you.

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So you keep calling me a "guest", when in
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Do as outlined above and sorry for the inconvinience - with our upgrade registered users have lots of new options so we had to consolidate them in one place.

>Secondly, unlike every other website I've used,
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>on your site, and then click on preview, when I
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>the whole d*%$## thing. , so I'm not a
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Thanks for the prompt reply. HOwever, as with the Preview page, this procedure does not remember what I did. I followed you instructions to the letter, but each time i clicked UPDATE, it went back to the original settings, not the ones I had just changed, such as automatic login.

Maybe I'll come back here in a couple of months after you get some of these nagging bugs solved. I must respectfully disagree: This software does NOT rock,, nor roll, nor do anything but frustrate the user.

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