Earthen Floors Book

Built with gravel sand clay straw and linseed oil it is made of local natural materials except for a plastic moisture barrier necessary in our area.

Earthen floors book. Ensure your work site is set up to be easy to use with screening table mixing area water source and an easy path of transport from the materials to the floor. Comfortable to walk on forgiving of dropped pottery and simple to maintain. This book gives solid details for building an earthen floor. Read 3 reviews from the world s largest community for readers.

I just finished reading it yesterday and am confident that i could follow the directions and use their method to produce a good looking earthen floor. The book gives details on what to do differently if installing the floor over a wood floor concrete slab or crushed rock. Earthen floors are inexpensive don t off gas like man made products and are easily repaired. A modern approach to an ancient practice sukita and james have come up with the ideal mix of inspiration experience technique and instruction.

Natural earth floors are fast becoming the finish of choice for people building with adobe strawbale and cob. By tony sirna at dancing rabbit ecovillage we ve found our earthen floor adobe floor hybrid to be a cheap easy to install durable ecological flooring solution. This book will be of use and benefit to both experienced practitioners and those just dipping their toes into the subject of earthen floors for the first time.