Ants and Earthen Floors

[Speireag]

Hello.

   Sending this to both the Straw Bale and Cob lists, because it applies to
both.

   Someone commented recently that he decided to go with a poured cement
floor because making the floor proof against ants would be expensive and
difficult.

   I had not considered ants as a possible problem in earthen floors.  Are
they?  Has anyone on the list ever had them come up through a floor, or
heard of such a thing?  Is there a non-toxic ingredient which will deter
the wee beasties?

-Speireag.

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Speireag, aka Joshua Macdonald Alden (speireag at linguist.dartmouth.edu)
Ma 's e ur toigh le, sgrìobh thugam anns a' Ghàidhlig
 agus tapadh leat airson mo Ghàidhlig a cheartachadh.