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1 - What can I get out with the cut limestone moulder's guide ? 2 - Why the guide is paying ? 3 - Why the limestone concrete isn't very known and used today? 4 - Can the materials used be easily found and at which place? 5 - I'm looking for crushed limestone in vain, do you have an address? 6 - If I don't find fine limestone, may I use other materials? 7 - How can I pay and download the guide? 8 - How long is it necessary to wait for the guide delivery after the payment is done? 9 - How shall I proceed to immediately download the guide ? 10 - What occurs if we have failed the downloading of the guide immediately after the payment ? 11 - I didn't receive the confirmation E-mail for my transaction after the payment on Paypal! 12 - Why do I need Acrobat Reader ? 13 - I do not manage to download the guide on the instant download page, what can I do? 14 - With this guide, is it possible to build the moulds without difficulties? 15 - The codes entered to go to the "Moulder Space" do not work, what can I do? 16 - I do not manage to download the plans on the site, how to make?J Joker - My question is not treated here, how to make? |
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- What can I get out with the cut limestone
moulder's manual ? The
concept which is proposed on this site is new, or at least, this is
the first time that it is formalized to be placed at the disposal of
the private individuals. I say “at least” because
it is possible that
it is already used in secrecy by stone craftsmen or by the cast stone
industry.
This
concept is articulated around 5 basic notions:
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- A material, the mortar or the “limestone
concrete”, already used in
architecture since the beginning of the years 2000 and sometimes in
restoration of old buildings, for the pouring of limestone concrete
slabs.
2 - Some means, the formwork or the moulding carried out with simple tools and very common materials, in the range of any handyman. 3 - A new possibility, that to cast stones directly on the wall, thanks to “in situ" formwork, to repair old stones or to save time and sweat. 4 - A method, a release from the mould and a surface hand-work carried out at fixed times in the limestone mortar cure process, determined according to the desired final aspect of the stone. 5 - A result, elements made of reconstituted limestone, very near and as beautiful as the natural stone, with equal or higher mechanical and physical qualities, usable in interior as in exterior. The
guide reveals a whole knowledge and a know-how to allow each one to
exploit the concept as well as possible. The technique, the materials,
the proportions, the methods and the easy ways are detailed in a simple
way, with many photographs and illustrations as support, to allow any
handyman to easily cast beautiful stones. The guide purchase also gives
the access to a protected part of the site where plans of moulds can be
downloaded and where many technical advices and informations are
regularly updated.
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- Why the manual is paying? Quite
simply because if it weren't, I would not have had
courage to write it, the site would not exist, the concept would not be
formalized today and people who realy need it could not benefit from
it. More seriously, I passed and I spend a lot of time on this site. I
wished to share this knowledge, a little by revolt against the real
speculation and the prices of the stone, a little to valorize the
manual skill of people who don't have a large wallet, but also for
finally equitably gaining a little money with this f..... computer,
before somebody steal me the idea…
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- Why the limestone concrete isn't very
known and used today? At
first sight, because the infrastructures of the industry of concrete
manufacturing are full used for the conventional gray
siliceous concrete and because if they had to answer to white limestone
concrete orders, they would have to entirely clean their installations
and their spindle moulders. That would be too expensive. The use of
the limestone concrete is thus limited for the moment to great
aesthetic architectural monuments, with the installation of relatively
expensive specific provisioning networks.
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- Can the materials used be easily found
and at which place? 5 - I'm looking for crushed limestone in vain, do you have an address? To
make some limestone
mortar, you will need a very
traditional hydraulic binder that you can find in all the
materials stores. You will also need some white crushed limestone 0-6
(or
0-4) also called “fine limestone aggregate”
(the limestone grains
are sized from 0 to 6mm). This aggregate is extracted from the
limestone
quarries. It is used in large quantities for the road industry, in
foundation and earthwork, and for the realisation of private paths. It
can be found directly in limestone quarries, where it is delivered by
truck
in large quantities, or at the materials wholesalers places or the
material deposits for building, civil engineering and roadway, as well
as sand
or gravel. There are limestone quarries on all the planet, however, the
quality of this material is very variable, and it can't be found as
much easily in all the regions of the world and of France. It can
 be
found easily where the limestone dominates over the granite or the
sands. In
the other areas, it will be necessary to look for it a little more and
to visit a great number of materials deposits. You
will understand that I cannot guarantee that you will find it
close to where you live. Simply, if you already saw in your area some
white crushed limestone on road, building sites or
“white” paths,
then you are likely able to find it at the wholesalers. The ideal
limestone is soft and of white or cream colour, with
possibly ochres traces. There are very hard gray limestones
which seem less well adapted for this application, although…
Even if
you are in a granitic or sandy area, it is not rare that a granite or
sand quarry proposes also limestone to its customers (to make
profitable
a rotation of truck, the manager of a Breton granite quarry who
delivers
in Provence can bring back limestone to the return). Here two links that will help you to find the quarries which exist in your neighbourhood: National
French data base of the stones and careers of the
historic buildings
http://monumat.brgm.fr/recherche_carriere.asp Sites
of the DRIRE (Regional Directions of the Industry of Research and
Environment of France) where is proposed the lists of the
authorized quarries, department by department:
http://www.drire.gouv.fr/ Other addresses are
proposed in the "Moulder
Space" on the
page “information and advices". Consult them and especially,
communicate the addresses
you found so that they could be used by others.
I can only advise you to telephone or visit the wholesalers, deposits and quarries in your neighbourhood and “to touch” the limestone they propose. The price of the crusht limestone 0-6 is at around 15€ or 20€ the ton, in the south of France. Its density is close to 1.5 tons/m3. Even if the deposits and the quarries have the habit to the deliveries by truck for this material, explain what you want to do. With the help of a few money, you will be able to leave with a few tens of Kgs in your boot, to carry out your tests, or a few hundreds of Kgs in your car trailer. You will be able then to make you deliver a few tons if you aim larger. On the right, a photograph of the crushed limestone 0-6 that I use personally, easily available in Poitou-Charentes. Some more beautiful and coloured one can be found, in particular in Périgord and in the South of France… All the other materials used, in particular for the realisation of the moulds, are absolutely standard and one can find them everywhere in the market of materials and do-it-yourself. |
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- If I don't find fine limestone, may I use other
materials? To
make some reconstituted limestone, some crushed natural limestone is
needed. But nothing prevents you from using the moulds and the concept
which are proposed on the site and in the guide with other materials.
While keeping the same hydraulic binder, you can use other types of
aggregates, provided that the latter contain a good quantity of very
fine elements. All the cast stone manufacturers don't use limestone,
far from there. Various gravels and siliceous sands are often used as
an aggregate. But in this case, it is the internal surface quality of
the moulds which prints the final aspect of the stones. The most common
aggregate, of course, is the fine sand. It can be coloured in the mass,
in the concrete-mixer, with liquid dyes or with natural oxide powders
like yellow ochre or natural earth. Other mixtures of various
aggregates can give interressants results. To know it, it will be
necessary for you to carry out tests and you will have to adapt the
proportions, the curing times before the release from the moulds and
the type of surface finishing according to the wanted aspect.
If you found an interesting aggregate, think to share your experiment and your results on this site. |
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- How can I pay and download the guide? After
you click on the "Paypal Buy Now" button, You will be directed on
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- How long is it necessary to wait for
the guide delivery after the payment is done? The
"Cut limestone moulder's manual" is an “E-book” file under .pdf format (printable data file). Your order will be processed manually within a few hours and one day maximum after your payment and you will receive an email with an encrypted link valid for 7 days.
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- How shall I proceed to download the guide ? You can download your ebook on your computer or your smartphone by clicking on the encripted link you received by email after your payment.
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- What occurs if you have failed the
downloading of the guide immediately after the payment? The encripted link you received by email is valid for 7 days. You can try to download it for 7 days. The encripted link looks like this :
LimestoneMouldersManual-V1-0.pdf (5.54 MB) : While
clicking on the link with the right
button of your mouse,
you can save the file on your hard disk to preserve it and open it
later. While clicking on the link with the left button of your
mouse,
you can immediately download it and open it with the free software
“Acrobat Reader”.
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- I didn't receive the confirmation
E-mail for my transaction after the payment on Paypal! It
is a rare case, but already encountered. As you didn't receive this
automatic E-mail, you don't have the possibility to download the guide
later. No panic!
If 1h after your transaction, you still didn't receive this E-mail: - Check
that you didn't give an erroneous
E-mail address
on Paypal, during your payment.
- Check that you don't have a zealous antispam that blocks the payloadz mails. - Place the following adress in your adress book :  - Check that your mail server is not saturated by a million of mails. In all
the cases, send a
message on the contact
page of this site, while taking care to give a
valid Email address. The administrator of the site has automatically
received a copy of the E-mail in question. He will return it to you on
your new valid address.
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- Why do I need Acrobat Reader or equivalent ? Acrobat
Reader is a free software that enables you to open, to read and
to print the guide on your colour printer. If you don't have Acrobat
Reader installed on your PC (this is very rare), you can download it to
install it by the Acrobat Reader link present on the "guide download"
page, on this site.
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- I do not manage to download the guide
on the site, what can I do? Please contact us with your hardware and software configuration, and we'll find a solution.
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- With this manual, is it possible to
build the moulds without difficulties? Plans
of moulds are downloadable on the site. They are .pdf files that
can be opened, read and printed with any colour printer, on standard
paper 21x29.7cm. They are expected to be clear and detailed to allow
any handyman to understand and to succeed with the manufacture of the
moulds. They contain many dimensioned drawings with exploded overview,
photographs and detailed lists of elements (part lists). The materials
used for the manufacture of the moulds are the most traditional and
easy to work, without need for a high degree of accuracy (planks and
water-resistant agglomerated wood, fir battens, boards of pine, screws
for wood...). The necessary tools are them also very traditional and
normally already in the possession of any handymen.
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- The codes entered to go to the "Moulder
Space" do not work, what can I do? The
acces codes, user (your email adress) and password, to enter the
moulder space are given in
the Email you received. These codes were automatiquely checked.
If you do not manage to enter, check initially that you type the good
code, by respecting the capital letters and the tiny ones. If however
you don't manage to enter, post a message on the contact
page.
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- I do not manage to download the plans
on the site, how to make? 1 -
Check that you have Acrobat Reader on your PC.
2 - Check that your firewall don't bar the download. In this case, configure it so that it accepts the download on this site, or disconnect it temporarily. 3 - Check that your navigator authorizes the Javascript. 4 - If nothing works, then post a message on the contact page, we will find a solution. |
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- My question is not treated here, how to
make? If
you didn't find an answer to your question in this page, or on the
site, then formulate your request on the contact
page of the site, or
send an email to the address below. A response will be made to you
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