How To Putba Floor In A Cob House

For optimum insulation provided by the cob walls this house has porcelain and oak floors.

How to putba floor in a cob house.

If it is wet enough it will level the surface itself like water would. We are planning to build a cob house in the uk. A cob home has a lot of benefits the one down side is that it s very labor intensive and takes a good while. Some earth floors are made thicker and with a heavy clay content.

We re finally back in gobcobatron. Unlike traditional houses which can got up very quickly cob is a slow process so be prepared. Yea we still have to seal it with linseed oil but april and i are waiting until next spring to be 100 certain the floor is dry we re not taking any chances the difference in the house is dramatic especially when you combine the look of the terracotta tile with the newly lime plastered walls. The tile floor is done.

My question is can i use lime and sand as a floor slab and roughly what. Then added a layer of cut polypropylene bags. I first tamped the earth beneath the building. After removing the timber you fill in the gab with earthen floor mix which is exactly the same mix as cob minus the straw.

As well as chasing the blocks into adjoining cob stainless steel helifix bars can be driven into the existing cob and bedded in the joints of the repair. The process of this floor has long been in the works. In october i built the base layer of the earthen floor a 2 5 thick mix of sand clay and straw it dried over fall and winter very slooowly and once i finished plastering my walls i moved onto completing the floor this spring. This type of floor is often wetter and is poured into the house.

To speed the build we are thinking of building the ground floor walls in cob and then the first floor walls in strawbale. Set the foundation for your cob house. Then 6 inches of red pumice otherwise known as scoria. The timber acts as a guide to keep the floor level as you go.

The stawbales wouldn t be structural so a wood frame would be required to sit on top of the cob wall to support the roof and the strawbale walls. After finishing the first layer of earthen floor we need to wait for it to dry before starting on the finishing layer. Which has a large living room kitchen diner ground floor loo four large bedrooms a second floor family room and three full sized bathrooms. I am renovating an old french farmhouse made of cob and columbage i am happily re doing bits of damaged cob in the walls but had a flash of questioning over the floor we hadnt considered anything other than concrete but having looked more and more into cob houses i cant imagine that this would be good for the house.

The house spans over an area of 2 500 sq. Damping it is very important to control suction from the cob. In june i finished installing the earthen floor in my cob house. Dampen the surfaces of adjoining cob and the cob blocks and bricks with a light spray of clean water before use.

Earthen floors are muddy work.