Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:32 am
Hi, we've some special problems concerning sett paving in our region.
I write you from Cappadocia, Turkey, a region where exist many tufa rocks. The region consists of many carved tufa cave rooms, which are underneath the roads. To protect these rooms from humidity the roads have to be impermeable. We tried concrete for bedding and jointing, but
the concrete reacts with the tufa and some salts are created. So we are looking for another method of impermeable sett paving. We don't prefer bitumen for jointing, because it is too much work for the big area and the workers are not used to this method. Are geotextiles suitable for this work on slopy roads to protect the cave rooms from water? Or is there a simple clay mixture for jointing to store the water and not let it in to the bedding and sub-base? Can you recommend a cheap method? Thank you a lot.
I write you from Cappadocia, Turkey, a region where exist many tufa rocks. The region consists of many carved tufa cave rooms, which are underneath the roads. To protect these rooms from humidity the roads have to be impermeable. We tried concrete for bedding and jointing, but
the concrete reacts with the tufa and some salts are created. So we are looking for another method of impermeable sett paving. We don't prefer bitumen for jointing, because it is too much work for the big area and the workers are not used to this method. Are geotextiles suitable for this work on slopy roads to protect the cave rooms from water? Or is there a simple clay mixture for jointing to store the water and not let it in to the bedding and sub-base? Can you recommend a cheap method? Thank you a lot.
