[Cob] to Howard: more details on floor

[Tys Sniffen]

Can you send out more details?

 

Where are you located? What’s the weather like? 

Where’s the house located? –i.e., on hill, in a valley, what sort of soil
around it, etc.

How big is the surface of the floor? Are you having the trouble in the whole
house, or just in certain areas? – high traffic, lower down, areas of less
airflow
?

What sort of drainage did you put into the foundation?

How far down did you dig in the interior of the house? – did you dig down
through topsoil before putting in gravel?

How much gravel did you put in?

Did you do a vapor barrier below the floor?

How thick is the subfloor? 

What’s the subfloor and finish floor made of? – is there things other than
clay and sand in it?

Was the subfloor completely dry before you put on the finish layer?

How many coats of linseed oil did you do before you moved in? 

 

Why did you go with a finish floor of just 1/8th of an inch of a finish
floor? Doesn’t the ‘Hand Sculpted House’ suggest a minimum of ½” – 4 times
thicker?  might make sense to just scrape it all up and make a thicker
finish floor.  You can use all the stuff you scrape up.