Carolyn Roberts the strawbale builder and book author was hospitalized with severe lime burns to her hands because during a full lime training session with Bill Steen, the bale guru...he never once advised using gloves she told me. So like most she assumed it was safe.. because she got no serious warning. He assumed people would use common sense and not stick bare hands in any building material, Therein lies my concern. And that was hydrated lime, not hot lime.
http://www.amazon.com/House-Straw-Odyssey-Natural-Building/dp/1890132306/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353876298&sr=1-19&keywords=straw+bale+home
I will tolerate any amount of cheeky derision and silly bitch slapping if one person on this list, or who reads it in future, is helped.
Quick lime/hot lime is dangerous for the casual user. Thats why you can't get access easily in the US.
The US lime industry has perfected the burning and making of lime for building and plaster use.. no black coal bits, no popping and pitting of unslaked lime later, no bad feeble lime is sold.
I am certain the Brit home made kiln produced a feebly reactive hot lime... it only boils and heats up during slaking. a refined, pure highly reactive lime would have behaved far differently if handled like that. nuff said?
Maybe someone can troll the youtubes for the latests papercrete vids.. and share here, they are popping up all the time.
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Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
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