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How To Build an Earth Block Home

By Jackie Craven, About.com

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Parge the Walls

Parging the walls with lime plaster

The earth block walls are parged with lime plaster

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Next, both interior and exterior walls are parged. They are coated with lime-based plaster. Like the slurry used to mortar the joints, the plaster used for parging bonds with the compressed earth blocks.

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