Cob: cleaning earth plaster

[Darel Henman]

Lucynda,
   You might want to wait till your kids grow up and you train them
enough to learn to keep the walls clean?   Then put a new layer of earth
plaster over it.  Rough it up a bit if you need it to key in.  This is
my approach and I learned that I don't get mad at the kids so much. 
Just resign that kids will dirty walls and everything else.  I would
like to know about the linseed.  Though I would still be reticent about
scrubbing earth plaster walls, and I like you, prefer a vapor permeable
wall and surface coating.

Darel

lucynda norton wrote:
> 
>     Has anyone had trouble cleaning earth plasters.  I have two kids and a
> very large dogs and recently painted my stick house in semi gloss so that
> the walls would be scrubbable.  I have read that you can mix a tablespoon
> full of linsead oil per bucket of plaster or natural paint, and I have read
> that any more than that causes a moisture barrier that will cause problems,
> But is one tablespoon full per bucket really enough to make it scrubable?
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp