In my Victorian cottage the upstairs fireplaces have been removed but the original lime mortar cement hearth is still insitu. One of the them is very badly cracked and has had a terrible repair done on it. I want to re-do the hearth as it might have been originally but dont know what to use. How do I mix a lime mortar. Most builders will only add lime to make the mortar lighter and then call ...

... unnecessarily things (old ceiling lamp, kitchen cabinets...etc) have been removed, and leaving me a clean house waiting for cement screed and the tiles to be up! It was a pleasant surprise to see the wall tiles for the common bathroom is up when we went over yesterday evening! And, thanks God that the effect turns out to be what we want! ...

... two... Before the visit, I've already thought of lining up fluoresent tubes in my new home, to match the path of the stainless steel dividers embedded in the cement sand screed flooring for my living / dining area. Then, the introduction of a ceiling allowed me to blatantly copy the recess fluoresent tube detail as seen above. Nice... I hope it ...