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Stone
and earth, simple and natural elements, an inheritance out of time, but
how many individual know-hows forgotten… In this world where
all
is money, I found the price of the natural stone and the cast stone so
high and so absurd, along the same lines as the prices of the housing,
that I had no other choice than to circumvent the problême.
After
having developed and tested this original concept as an amateur, during
several years, for the restoration of my own old house, I said myself
that others in the same situation could be happy of being able to use
it. I felt a great pride in front of the beauty and the realism of my
stones. I wish that this knowledge and this know-how be able to push
the beauty and the nobility of the stone at the range of those who
place at a high level the value of the effort and the manual
skill.
The drafting of the documents and the plans, the photographic harvest, the creation and the administration of an Internet site and the translation involve an important work and a large time investment. The large Internet sites can live from advertising, not the small ones. However, the webmasters, not more than the authors or the volunteers, cannot live of love and clear water. I know it because I tried it, and during many years. It is very difficult to be voluntary and altruistic in a materialist and individualist society, because one is literally made exploit. I think equitable sharing is more effective to induce a solidarity progress. I could not “have given” the Cut Limestone Moulder's Guide because I would not have had courage to conceive it. It's for all these reasons that I decided to sell the Cut Limestone Moulder's Guide, while trying to fix its price to the most equitable level. The
material in question on this site and in “the cut limestone
moulder's manual”, namely the “limestone
concrete” or
“limestone mortar” has been used for several years
in
architecture. It was in particular exploited massively, in substitution
of the conventional concrete, in the construction of several great
architectural works, because of its physical and aesthetic properties.
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See the CRIT site (Centre
de
Ressources et d'Informations Techniques)
However, the guide which is
proposed on
this site is not the work of a professional but of an amateur. It is
simply the fruit of a personal experiment seriously undertaken during
nearly 3 years in restoration of an old house (*).
The methods, techniques, data and proportions which it describes are
not scientifically and industrially tested. The user must carry out
tests and make his own experiment. In case of doubt, he will have to
refer to a professional of the building or architecture.devoted to the innovative techniques in the building. The reader is thus informed that he uses this work under his own and whole responsibility. Any accident, damage or disaster resulting from the use of this guide would in no manner engage the responsibility of the author of the guide and of this site. When
a creator and an author diffuses a knowledge and a know-how, it's
obviously so that to be exploited by others, and he hopes then on the
solidarity and the honesty of each one. So that this site can continue
to exist, and by solidarity, not only with me but also with those who
will be happy to find this guide on Internet,
you
don't have the right to diffuse, entirely or partially, by some means
that it is, the files, the hard copies and the access codes of the
guide and of the plans which you bought or simply downloaded.
If you wish to give somebody the knowledge and the information, rather give him the address of the site:
www.my-caststone-dream.eu
Loup de Saintonge. (*) Research and development engineer, but in an other field than the building, I applied the rules of horse-sens that are commonly used to check and to validate a new concept. In particular, I carried out experiments and tests to check the hardness and the resistance of the stone according to the proportions. I carried out aging of reconstituted stones, in exterior, posed on wet ground, subjected to the sun, the rain and the freeze, without noting of particular degradation, after nearly 4 years. In addition, the first stones which I made are facing stones, surrounds, lintels and sills of doors. Some on a western wall, have been subjected for 3 years to the sun and the rain. There also, no noted degradation. |
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