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concrete, you dont keep the water out

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Do you mean to say that with a sufficient fall to take/7526 it off pretty soon, you would not make it watertight?

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No.

Q.

Is not that becse you dont put six inches of

concrete ?

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You have five i chos.

25 Q.

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24 Q.

30

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32 Q.

What would you cover a roof with. They have got cement (7521

rendering.

I have tried putting on tiles, but they dont make it watertight. The only thing I have foundis ashphalt. When you say impervious for an ordinary floor, lime

concrete is good enough.

Is not your experience here that where you have taken 17529 up an old floor and found it is not impervious, that

the damp has come from the bottom and not from the top, and if ya dug out a bleak that the lower two inches would be impoverished from the damy rising ?

I have not noticed that; I have before now taken out

blocks of concrete in squares about two feet,

The concrete that you have seen impoverished by danp (71730

has been where the slops have been thrown over it?

Yes, from the top. It has been soaking in from the top. Where you have found that, and have taken up the floor?

have you found the concrete itself disintegrated ?

Yes, in some cases. But I think it was bad concrete in

the first instance.

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But assuming you were laying down as good a lime concrete as you could get here, you would not find it

disintegrated ?

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No.

33 Q.

A.

Than dont you think that a proper lime concrete floor (733

is quite good enough from a Sanitary point of view ?

Yes, if you are going to render it with cement on the

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1/ Q.

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