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=== Labor Hours === Construction was just over a months work for one person, not counting all the during semester research and experimentation. Many days were short because it took about 5 hours to apply a coat to one side, no time to do the rest until next day, you need to plan logical stopping places. Much time was used measuring and hand mixing plasters, etc. A cement mixer could have worked wonders, the hand drill mixer lacked enough torque to move the heavy mixes, mixing was therefor heavy bent over back taxing labor. Also spent a lot of time cleaning lime off my protective gear, stayed wet a lot and had a cold about half the project. Just doing simple prep tasks like cutting straw, cooking wheat-paste in my kitchen, and screening clay ate up days of time for one person. There were also the many 'quick' runs across town to mist the lime surfaces, following for weeks after 'completion'. Since I lacked money for gas these runs were not usually quick, though I might just be on site for 5 minutes or so. I figure it's real hard to figure how long this would take with a proper mixer and a few extra bodies, efficiencies would improve dramatically, I therefor don't feel my experience merits much discussion by way of timelines for it's too hard to guess-timate if 'done right'. Unless you are a die-hard do-it-yourselfer, take my advice and apply the team-work I could only spend my days imagining. 1 person mixing, 1 cutting straw or measuring mixes, 2 plastering would have created comparatively awesome efficiencies, for just one alternate labor formula. Having had a person with truck tasked with supply runs and off-site tasks like wheat paste cooking by itself would have saved a work week, possibly more. Didn't help that Arcata weather is often uncooperative, though as an uncontrollable factor the weather is neither here-nor-there; still, one more thing to keep in mind if planning a similar project.
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