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PaulT

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I can't give you the French terms, sorry, but at the builders merchants I've always bought sand by the grade number, usually 02 for mortar and then going up in stages for gradually coarser stuff: 06 is a fine gravel which is good for building stone walls because it has more aggregate (but not for the pointing), and 10 is what we use for paths. I'm presuming that the grade is some sort of sizing of the sieve that it passed through? All of it is referred to as "sable" here, which is confusing, but that's just "sand" generally.

It's best to go to the builders yard and see what they've got and how they refer to it. Also tell them what you want it for. At our local yard the storage "boxes" (I don't know what else to call them - the big bins with 3 walls open at the front!) are all labelled.

For sand itself there isn't a lot of choice here in the mortar grade; just two types of 02, one is more white, and the other is a deeper reddish/orange shade (which gives a warmer creamy looking mortar - and is more expensive!). 

 

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