Cob: floor

[Darel Henman]

I found your message at the bottom of my incoming mail box.

The date on it was:   05 Jan 1904 12:17:53 -0800
Other people  may have missed it do to the old date.

Anyway see below for my answer:

donnajc4 wrote:
> 
> Hi;  I'm Donna and new to the list.  I've recently bought a house that was
> built in the 70's and has all kinds of undesirable attributes that I'm
> hoping to slowly change.  Right now I'm wondering if I can safely and
> effectively put a cob or adobe brick floor in my kitchen on top of a
> linoleum floor.  I have concrete footings and a crawl space under that
> floor....can't do much about that.  Thanks   dc

As fare as I currently know your idea which is good in spirit is in fact 
not suitable.  You must consider the load that the (most likely plywood)
subflooring was designed to hold as well as the floor joists that the
subflooring sits on.  Additionlly since these vibrate and move when
walked upon any adobe flooring would crack.

Darel