<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In many places soil salinity is a major problem, and adobe is bound to become soil at some point... Another reason<div>not to have salt in the bricks.</div><div><br></div><div>Racheli.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Lance Collins wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> Hi Kenn,<br><br> This might be a really bad idea, I vaguely recall from making adobes many years ago reading that salt and clay made for crumbly blocks. Also salt would make dry clay hydroscopic rather than hydrophobic.<br><br> Cheers<br><br> Lance<br><br> At 04:06 AM 14/01/2011, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#008000">I just had an idea. You could use salt that you feed livestock, mix it into the mud that you put into the wall. It will dissolve temporarily into the wall then dry rock hard, and will not sustain insects, plant growth or insects. My borate is labeled for pest control.. It doesn’t matter to a do it yourselfer.<br> Kenn Brown<br> </font></blockquote></div> _______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>