[Cob] floor finishes

[Jill Hogan]

My one floor is over 6 years old and looks like the day we finished 
sealing it. Being basically lazy have never got round to resealing it. I 
know they say once a year for life time. One of the restorations we did 
the client wanted a white floor so we used the whitest building sand we 
could find plus white  throwing clay from a local pottery supply 
company. The client took floor polish, here in SA it is called cobra 
polish and sealed it with that, and it came out just off white and a 
couple of years down the line is still beautiful and unchipped. A couple 
here put in a dung floor and maybe it is just the nature of Africa but 
every bug and insect moved into the floor and sadly they lifted it and 
put down a cement floor which doesn't have the same charm.
Jill


On 2011/02/19 09:39 PM, Benjamin Brownell wrote:
> Doni Kiffmeyer was experimenting with it (or planning to) a couple years ago when he helped me with a large adobe floor in Utah. I haven't heard reports. I imagine it would still need to be well sealed to keep from flaking and releasing dust (caustic) over time. In our case, we worked a patchy thin skin of Kaolin clay into the finish plaster as it was drying for a nice marbled effect that also lightened the final color tone considerably (even after oil/wax coats). There's always the time-tested, globally approved dung-slip technique...
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> Has anyone done a cob floor with lime plaster as a finish? Seems to 
> me it would be better than beeswax and linseed oil, but I'm just 
> guessing.
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