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Now-with regard to floofs, the habit of doing it here, - wouldnt it improve it very much indeed if they were to ram it down, until the lime comes to the surface ?

No, the batter way to make a good floor is to, one might Bay, tickle it down. You take the rake of the banker. You take that rake and you gently pat it all down. You dont work it. You do not try to dress up noft portions, and when you have got that all done until the stone is almost invisible, that is to say the matrix is nearly covering them, you leave off for 24 hours, and ram it next day. You get a good floor. I dont approve of ramm- ing it at once.

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Now what do you say to this authority. Here is a quot- ation from Hurst's Handbook, page 309. "Conorete, if it

has not commenced to set, should be rammed until the

lime or cement flushes up to the surface".

I think one is liable to put a wrong construction on

the word "ram". It generally means violence.

I take it to mean an iron punner at home,

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As a rule, they ram it very hard. It is a very hydraulic lime, and it must be thrown in every case from

a height of six feet, but that does not pay with cement concrete, and I dont believe in ramming lime concrete, excepting to expel air. If you expel the air, that

would be quite enough. You dont want to get all the stone at the bottom, and all the lime at the top.

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Well, if it wan rammed as you say, and I dont think

it inconsistent with what I have just quoted,

wouldnt

that preclude the chance of rat runs carrying underneath, which do occur here very often?

Yes, because the rats would not get a chance to start

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