Examples of 'lime mortar' in a sentence

Meaning of "lime mortar"

Lime mortar is a type of building material or binding agent used in construction. It is made from a mixture of lime, sand, and water. Lime mortar has been used for centuries in traditional masonry, especially for historic buildings or conservation projects. It provides flexibility, breathability, and durability to structures. Lime mortar is also valued for its environmental sustainability and compatibility with historic materials
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  • A soft form of mortar made from sand and slaked lime, largely replaced by cement mortar in modern building methods.

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Lime mortar was used for plastering walls.
The binding material used is lime mortar.
Brick and lime mortar are used here.
The walls are plastered with lime mortar.
A lime mortar joined the bricks together.
The masonry is linked with lime mortar.
Both concrete and lime mortar have been used.
It was built of large stones and lime mortar.
Lime mortar helps to keep a building dry inside.
You place them in a lime mortar bed.
Trass or air lime mortar is almost always chosen.
Repointing a stone wall with lime mortar.
Lime mortar was used to bind stones in these old constructions.
It is constructed of fired brick bonded with lime mortar.
Dyed lime mortar.

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The floor of the dockyard is made of lime mortar.
These sardobs used to be built of lime mortar and bricks with a covering dome.
The monument is built of rubble with lime mortar.
The flexibility of the lime mortar is particularly important when renovating older buildings.
Its walls are made of stone and lime mortar.
The lime mortar matched nearly perfectly with medieval mortar in existing churches on the coast.
Kiln baked bricks and lime mortar was used.
Historically masonry was constructed with no mortar or with lime mortar.
A specimen growing in lime mortar on a wall.
Eroded stone replaced and cement pointing changed to lime mortar.
Therefore, a straight lime mortar joint should be repointed in kind.
This would produce an extremely fine lime mortar.
You need to use the old stuff, lime mortar and a French binding agent.
Natural lime is known as natural hydraulic lime mortar.
Right, lime mortar.
The bottoms of the gourds are filled with lime mortar.
The earliest other known use of lime mortar dates to about 4000 BC in Ancient Egypt.
This building is built with stone linked with lime mortar.
The structure is built of brick and lime mortar on four terraces.
The adobe wall at the ground floor was plastered with lime mortar.
The church is built of stone fracture in lime mortar and plastered inside.
The sides and top are edged with flat bricks and lime mortar.
The wall is built in sandstone laid in lime mortar mixed with brick.
It is made of ceramic pipes fitted one above another and joined by lime mortar.
You need to use the old stuff, lime mortar and a French.
Blue Lias was burnt locally to provide a source of lime for making lime mortar.
Pinguet gave him a board soiled with lime mortar and plaster.
Hydraulic lime is a variety of lime, a slaked lime used to make lime mortar.
In the 1970s some firms started to produce pure lime mortar and pre-mixed lime paint.
The main binding material for construction was Lime mortar.
The cement used between the blocks was of lime mortar and sand.
He began a reconstruction effort, using stone and lime mortar.
To build a strong wall with bricks, they used lime mortar.
The walls were twelve cubits wide, made of burned brick jointed with lime mortar.
Statumen, Two or three courses of flat stones set in lime mortar.

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