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What In the Heck Is This Stuff Called ‘Hypertufa’ ??

I received an email asking:

Help me please! I am wondering if you can describe hypertufa to me — like how it feels, looks, etc. I am doing a report about the Roman Coliseum and the interior was made partly with ‘tufa and I need to describe it so can you help?

I replied:

Hi:
First, let me steer you straight on one very important thing — “hypertufa” is NOT what the Romans utilized as a building material.

They used real Tufa rock, which was quite abundant, and still to this day can be seen in many structures in Rome and the surrounding area. So … I also encourage you to search the phrase “Tufa rock” in Google or other search engines, and read up on the real product made by Mother Nature.

As far as the concoction called “hypertufa”, that is something that is man made from various ingredients and it was developed to REPLICATE real Tufa rock.

To help you learn about it, I will direct you over to my website where I have many pages of specific information on hypertufa, and since you say you want to SEE what it looks and feels like, I will send you to this page – watch this mixing hypertufa recipes video.

And then I suggest you watch this how to make a hypertufa trough video, too.

Also, check out all the hypertufa pages on my website. If all this doesn’t provide answers for you, then come back and ask for more help.

Good luck with your report.