I'm building a new dome next year and for a variety of reasons I'll be using portland cement as a stabilizer. I tried to avoid it, but my
local soil has near zero clay in it so lime doesn't function well
enough and with no clay as a binder... there's no binding otherwise. I'm planning on a 9:1 or 10:1 add mix ratio (fines+small aggregate : portland cement), mixed in an electric 4 cubic
yard mixer.
I read about this lady who used non stabilized (ie: just clay, no cement/lime) soil and has had good results with filling the bags with dry mix, then wetting once on the wall, them tamping.
I'm curious if I can do this with my soil cement version as well. It will be a very hot and arid environment so I'll be wetting the walls constantly anyway during cure time (overnight at the end of the work day, essentially).
Edit: I
should add that a slower setting time, to the point where the interior of the bags potentially take months to cure from moisture in the walls, doesn't really bother me. I want the walls to be soil-cement hard in the long term, they'll be sufficiently fine in the short term to build with.