Cob: Re: Linseed Oil and soil cement floor.

[Patrick Newberry]

Yes, it is basically a concrete floor, but it's still rather dusty so I feel the sealing is important. Plus I'm 
doing some design stuff on the floor to make it look nicer. Yea, I'm in middle Georgia but jokingly say I live 
on the beach. We are home to many a sand pit. After the linseed oil drys I'll coat it with wax. 

I'm trying to be artistic and sense the floor itself is porous, it bleeds a bit so I'm accounting for that in
my designs on the floor. Obviously I wouldn't be worried about that If I was sticking to  one colour but 
I just couldn't bring my self to stick to one colour. I have a feeling that the absorbson of the linseed oil is less than
would occur with a earthen floor. I have to watch for puddling however as that is not good. I wash over it with the paint 
thinner after it dries a bit to get rid of puddles of the linseed oil, using a sponge. 


Pat 

-----Original Message-----
From: Darel Henman [mailto:henman at it.to-be.co.jp]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:31 AM
To: goshawk at gnat.net
Cc: coblist at deatech.com
Subject: Re: Cob: Re: Linseed Oil and soil cement floor.


Pat,

sounds like you have produced a concrete floor (cement + sand
aggragate).  I doubt that you need to seal it.
You did say sand like a beach, right?

Darel

goshawk at gnat.net wrote:
> 
> as a sealer for my concrete / just dug the sand out of my yard / mixed with cement  / floors.
> 
> Pat
> www.gypsyfarm.com
>