And here's the link to Sukita's books on Earthen Floors - www.newsociety.com/Books/E/Earthen-Floors And don't worry, the plastic is optional. We thought about simply leaving this out, but it felt more comprehensive to add more information than not. It's code in some places to have it. The "because she is woman" part is just a story that inspired Sakita, there's no intention here to bash men or masculinity. It's feminine because it's flexible, it's not dangerous like cement, cement burns the skin when you're working with it, I wouldn't bring my baby to a cement pour.

@kaushikshrinivask2028

4 жыл бұрын

I guess the plastic sheet at the bottom is for damp proofing. Is there any natural alternative for doing a damp proof course?

@pghtownmike

4 жыл бұрын

I would think a thin layer of viscous clay slurry might do the job, at least initially. It would be interesting to see how such a stack might evolve through time and use.

@AtlasReburdened

4 жыл бұрын

@@kaushikshrinivask2028 Well, I know that Sodium Bentonite clay is so renowned for the amount that it expands when it absorbs moisture that it's used to seal the bottom of "natural" bottom ponds. Supposedly the clay expands anywhere from 10-20 times it's original size(depending highly on the purity and processing) when wet, so when used as a pond seal it's sandwiched between two layers of dirt so the expansion just makes the fine grains press against their neighboring grains, and the water then takes a long long time to seep through the tight spaces. It might serve just as well with water vapor coming from the bottom, but that would have to be fleshed out in testing.

@pbrezny

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pinning this to the top. For sure they didn't use this petroleum based plastic liner in the Puebla back in the day! It's time we got plastics out of our lives before they clog the planet for good!

@EllisInAction

4 жыл бұрын

pretty telling of some of your views by claiming this floor exists only because women and it's feminine. go fuck yourself, sexist.

I had aunts in Mexico with dirt floors. It kept the houses cool during the hot desert days. They swept & wet the floors every morning. The dirt was hard and compact. Bare feet did not get dirty. It was amazing.

@Ladida386

2 жыл бұрын

Why did you wet it every morning?

@ofexistence267

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ladida386 most likely to re-polish it everyday

@psngaming3796

2 жыл бұрын

@You Tube your comment does not show humility to these people's living conditions.

@trevor7520

2 жыл бұрын

@You Tube "Hburr durr I'm just fine from my point of economic privilege" No shit, jackass

@shanleyshoupe7873

2 жыл бұрын

@You Tube the mopping is the deal breaker for you for earthen flooring? thats the thing? you were gonna replace all your hardwood til hearing that? XD

During the depression, my Aunt Kate and Uncle Arthur lived in a tent. It was a plain dirt floor, but every day my Aunt Kate swept it, and damp mopped it. In about 3 or 4 weeks it turned into (almost) a big, single, tile floor. It was shiny, hard, and water-proof. They had no oil for the floor, and there was no plastic. They just did a French drain around the tent, and damp mopped every day. We live in farm land, not much clay about, so this was done with regular, loamy, dirt.

@constablebentonfraser5014

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to know more about this

@kimwarburton8490

4 жыл бұрын

id like to know more also please

@TSB43

4 жыл бұрын

As well as I, am curious to learn more of these Aunt Kate & Uncle Author you speak of. Please, continue.

@magglefragle

4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@sallywasagoodolgal

4 жыл бұрын

@@TSB43 During the depression there were great dust storms in Oklahoma. Aunt Kate and Uncle Arthur lost what little they had. They came to California, to the Sacramento Valley. They were farmers in Oklahoma, so they picked fruit, and nuts. They lived on little, but shared what they had, as did everyone else. They got (or brought) a tent, they had a bed frame, mattress, table, 2 wood chairs, and a kerosene light. Kate cooked outside. They were good people, and I never heard either one raise their voice. Aunt Kate played a guitar, and sang a little. She taught my brother to play. They had no children.

My boyfriend told me of Earthen floors in Oaxaca that he grew up in... he said after his grandma would sweep and splash water on them, the smell was heavenly and that he does miss it terribly.

@shunyabinduinteriors

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed,It smells heavenly like the time the earth smells before it is going to rain👍

@zachreyhelmberger894

3 жыл бұрын

Does he remember what the floor was made of? Did he smell the moist dirt or the moistened oil or moist binders??

@liambenyamin5482

3 жыл бұрын

Seattle smells like that 320 days a year.

@atlguera564

3 жыл бұрын

@@liambenyamin5482 wow. That sounds much better than Atlanta 😁

@atlguera564

3 жыл бұрын

@@zachreyhelmberger894 I'm not sure, I need to ask him. I know they supposedly packed it down with water when making the homes, but I'll ask.

I grew up in Redlands California USA, when I was a child around 1970 there were some very old houses that my grandfather did a construction job on, I couldn’t believe I saw this lady sweeping, then washing her dirt floor! It was so shining! I was only 8 years old at the time and will never forget how clean and beautiful the red clay floors were, and how my grandfather explained to me that dirt can be clean if respected and treated with great care. I learned something special about life that day.

@vanessaaguilera7389

4 жыл бұрын

Artevious - I grew up in Redlands also! I miss the orange groves.

@mudprincess11

4 жыл бұрын

Artevious - thanks for sharing your sweet memory

@someguy4157

4 жыл бұрын

so sweet! thanks for sharing.

@juiciegiraffe2562

4 жыл бұрын

that’s beautiful! thank you for sharing :) a little parable

@alexmood6407

4 жыл бұрын

Learned what?

I love the stories that everyone is sharing.

Here in Trinidad, my Indian ancestors (including my grandmother) made floors by mixing cow poop and clay. The cow poop has a high fibre content (it becomes like cardboard when it dries) so I suppose it holds the clay particles together. Also, when it dries it becomes odourless (believe it or not)

@rahulkundu6961

4 жыл бұрын

well you are right here in India we used the same thing and you are right after 2-4 days their is no smell left

@mrsaye499

4 жыл бұрын

What about after you wet it again, like for mopping?

@johanetalicekriel1362

4 жыл бұрын

We also do this in South Africa 😊

@razdandeep

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrsaye499 i believe you should be able to mop it once it has dried. It is still going to retain its integrity.

@bashkillszombies

4 жыл бұрын

WOW AMAZING THIS IS A NOVEL AND UNIQUE APPROACH THAT MUST BE AN ANCIENT INDIAN SECRET Fucking Americans man. Smoothbrains.

Was I looking for this? No. Did I thoroughly enjoy it? Hell yeah.

Ahhhh, plastic- that centuries old Indian secret ingredient.

@RememberAlHamdulillah

4 жыл бұрын

LOL! 😂

@CocoaHerBeansness

4 жыл бұрын

they explained that some area's building codes require the plastic - she also said 'moisture barrier' rather than plastic so you could use lots of other things instead.

@its_me_dave

4 жыл бұрын

👍🤣😂

@CocoaHerBeansness

4 жыл бұрын

@@lemon1peach2mango3 anything moisture can't get past. Somewhere else in the comments said that traditionally in her region tanned leather was used.

@Mumbo_Jumbo_Kiwi.1

4 жыл бұрын

Where she's running the screed boards, could cut deeper to lay underfloor hot water pipes that feed of a woodburner backboiler This could also eliminate the need of a plastic membrane. Your concern here is damp. Damp is a major concern. This can be overcome with adequate ventilation around the parimeter. Another topic pending on your project. Cover in final finish with natural lime. Thoughts please?

We absolutely love our kitchen floor she installed 4 years ago. Holding up BEAUTIFULLY! couldn't be more pleased. Thank you, Terry in Medford Oregon

@mudprincess11

4 жыл бұрын

Terry Trantham great to see you here!

@wadepatton2433

4 жыл бұрын

Do you have dogs scratching around on it?

@Lyddiebits

2 жыл бұрын

Hey!! Monmouth Oregon here, do you have pictures of the floor!? I'd love to see if you have an Instagram?

@Ave_Satana666

2 жыл бұрын

Yall got ooil?

@Ave_Satana666

2 жыл бұрын

>gets in jet< be right their

The way to find out the particle size distribution in soil is : take a straight side bottle, cut the top off a 2 qt plastic bottle and toss in a couple of cups of soil. Add water until 3/4 full. Then stir or shake until completely mixed. Then set down and let the soil settle. The coarse material will settle on the bottom with finer materials grading until the silt settles on top. The clay will stay in suspension for days. Then measure the thickness of the layers and that is the proportion of the soil components.

Love it! I work as a concrete finisher so I can tell that this is the exact same process you'd use for a slab on grade. Just subbed with natural and noninvasive material!

Lots of single-use plastic buying hypocrites moaning about the use of a durable *long lasting* layer of vapor barrier here. Instead of thanking this amazing woman for sharing her valuable skills.

Out here in Outback Northern Territory, Australia, they used the massive termite mounds and crush them down, wet them then compact them and they turned hard like concrete, they even made airstrips out of it..

@robrod7120

4 жыл бұрын

perentee77 Sounds cheap but durable, do termites make their nests out of coay?

@jake3523

4 жыл бұрын

@@robrod7120 they combine dirt with saliva. Enzymes in their saliva acts much like sealant oil that forms a polymer like in the video.

@VincentGonzalezVeg

4 жыл бұрын

lets farm them for low cost eathen construction?

@xanas93

4 жыл бұрын

A fellow Territorian!

@marianalopesdeoliveira2787

4 жыл бұрын

Same in Brazil

When I was younger I heard my adopted Uncle Ben talk about when he was a kid growing up in a Hopi family. He mentioned his family lived in a house with many unique and fascinating architectural features, from hollow form Cobb walls heated by a central hearth to a compacted earth floor so densely packed that it was almost akin to a cement foundation. I always wanted to figure out the process of making those types of houses, but since he didnt know how to he couldn't teach me. Thank you for giving me a bit of insight towards the process.

@TheMurlocKeeper

3 жыл бұрын

I love that idea of the hollow cobb walls for heating! Pure genius! Yeah, it's sad that such knowledge is dying out. I find the old crafts like that so charming! If humanity keeps on going on the destructive path it's taking atm, we might well have need of such knowledge as we destroy our own civilization and will have to start again from nothing.

I really love the way you showed the cross section of what you were doing. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.

I have been experimenting with making bees wax cloths to replace plastic wrap in the kitchen. I would really love to see you experiment with this type of thing to replace the plastic foil. Maybe a tougher cloth and more bees wax. It becomes more flexible if you add an oily wax like jojoba and extra antibacterial/antifungal and stability with pine tree resin ;-)

@ReasonAboveEverything

2 жыл бұрын

Modern History TV channel has an episode about that.

@sheralync5854

Жыл бұрын

i wonder if you can leverage some formulas from oil painting. Linseed oil with 2% beeswax can be used to make oil paint. I wonder if you increase the wax content a bit and then dipped the wrap cloth in it if you'd get a nice substitute for plastic wrap?

@keelymeagan337

4 ай бұрын

I’ve installed a couple earthen floors with no plastic barrier, but your suggestion is a really good one! I use beeswax cloth wraps for food storage and can see how easily that could work on the floor. And the pine resin as an anti fungal is brilliant!. You would need a small bathtub full of beeswax to coat the large pieces of cloth! Not sure how that would work but def something to play with. Especially in areas where moisture migration is known to be a issue…

I loved the stratigraphic column view throughout the video. Great job!

@elijahphilson8878

4 жыл бұрын

I learned a new word through you today

@ablanccanvas

4 жыл бұрын

That’s true... and showing the ‘compaction’, also very useful!

@NYMusic89563

4 жыл бұрын

Isn’t it called a row when it’s horizontal ?

@taitjones6310

4 жыл бұрын

@@NYMusic89563 strata are layers. I can't think of any time I have seen "rows" that were not side by side.

I just love that, how you showed the soil strata along with the depth dimension as you add the layers over layer. The soil compaction as you add pressure on top of it and the oil on finishing was brilliant. Love this kind of detailed video 👍🏽👍🏽

In the southern area of Saudi Arabia and in Yemen, people used to make two floor houses with this type of earthen floor. But they will also mix cow and sheep manure with the clay.. the houses are hundreds of years old and they are still standing.

I was showing my Artwork at a show in Taos New Mexico.. many years back.. I was invited to stay at a Taos Pueblo's Story Teller's house which was as old at the Pueblo.. It was of course made of adobe, and I was amazed to see that the floor of this very old house had an almost marble like texture... It was, as I found out, dirt that had been walked on for soooo long it got that texture... That will be a visit I'll never ever forget.... Stringing beads by the light of an oil lamp and listening to that sweet old ladies stories...

@thisorthat7626

4 жыл бұрын

David Lemon, you were very fortunate to have had that experience. Thank you for sharing it with us!

@clayguy1

4 жыл бұрын

@@thisorthat7626 It was fun remembering it

When I used to live in Indian village 12 years ago we used to mix cowdung with soil, water to create our huts floor.

@Unknownsnkn

4 жыл бұрын

Hitesh Rawat cowdung is a great binder commonly used for wattle and daub construction.

@OneEphraimite

4 жыл бұрын

Bullshit

@lynnechemeli4124

4 жыл бұрын

In Kenya we still do that in the villages:)

@chrissyproudrwandan4775

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Please look up Imigongo art from Rwanda!

@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587

4 жыл бұрын

now this is an actual natural solution. I might use the manure from the cows on our homestead over plastic, thank you for sharing your country's method :)

In our community, we just use red clay soil and water. Gives the colour as well as the smooth finish. But it needs to be layered after months or years. Interesting that modern society is into primitive construction and here we are still primitive but organic. 🙂

@balhazer

4 жыл бұрын

@@SR-gs8zo Could you clarify your comment pretty please?. It seems you got a notorious point there, but your autocorrector kicked in and busted your message.

@xyzsame4081

3 жыл бұрын

@@SR-gs8zo That put me off as well. I would sweep and harden the floor first and then apply a THIN layer of linseed oil, it cannot harden when they pour that much on it, of course the fresh earth soaks it up. The oil makes it a little darker and maybe even easier to maintain.

So only a woman could receive the secrete knowledge on how to make a clay-sand floor. The older I get, the more esoteric nuances of reality become clear to me. I feel I'm becoming WOKE! Hallelujah!

Earthen floors have a special energy which connects us with natural vibrations...

By far the best and most comprehensive presentation of earthen floors. Thank you.

@SirHorned19

2 жыл бұрын

Did they ever say anything about longevity or strength or cost? These are things you have to know before building anything...

@JustBeverlyMitchell

5 ай бұрын

Yeah. I just bought her book! :)

All the steps and materials really helped to make the end result so aesthetically appealing. Very nice job.

I'm a woman and hand paved my own driveway and now working on my cottage. I feel so much better coming home to my natural elements. We are strong and smart women, our worth is not be underestimated. ♥

Wow! Super liked it! What a way to live sustainably and spend less... Practicality in life is the only option to survive on this crazy world of inflation...

As an architecture student I am so happy to see that people are understanding more about the old traditional methods and sticking to a eco-friendly materials rather than a newly found concrete ❤️

@superjeffstanton

3 жыл бұрын

Concrete is 3000 years old and Inert.

Really great videos documenting these process. I really appreciate you and these people putting in the time to openly share knowledge.

Thank you KZread algorithm. This video was great

this video is the first iv'e seen from this channel and it just has such good vibes

Very nice. My wood floors were laid by human hands as well. No matter how hard we try not to… we are always taking from the earth to create something for our comfort. It’s nice to see the different beautiful ways the earths materials are utilized.

How many times do I have to lick the floor to get enough tongue oil on it? I've been going at it all week and I'm not seeing results. 9:20

@ge3029

4 жыл бұрын

Keep at it friend, until you do. Perseverance is key. Send pics of you're tongue as you progress.

@sa22see

4 жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😝

@elizabethramos4293

4 жыл бұрын

So funny! Thanks.

@kyledrywallpuncherpro135

4 жыл бұрын

Damn It.. Genius comment!

@uzomarose

4 жыл бұрын

Gewgulkan Suhckitt hahahah. humor is always appropriate....thank you

Ah, traditional plastic sheeting! Nice!

I have no intention of ever doing an earth floor, but wow... This video was such a delight to watch.

Everything you did was beautiful. That reed roof is best insulation. I been in a house like this and was incredibly cool on the summer.

@yougerard1976

4 жыл бұрын

Yea,the best part is when your laying in bed and a mouse falls out of the ceiling onto your face.

@danbujor5991

4 жыл бұрын

@@yougerard1976 true, in horror movies, not in reality

@kaylakrattiger5191

4 жыл бұрын

Thats funny

My house is old was build with mud wall and floor also earthen my mom 2 time s in week maintining the floor with cows wast in india we not use this type oil to finishing floor cow weast is best and healthy and this coat is best for flooring layer Now aday we fix the tiles for floor but we miss this flooring. . I m civil engineer I m planing to build new rcc building ,on my old house. I will leave one hall for this type flooring...It's remember me my old childhoods day.when we poor i sleep on this floor

What does a house look like that is mostly built without plastic? At least 99% of it. The little bit that has been used has positive benefits that offset any negatives. The walls are straw with clay plasters, the earth floor is a mix of clay soils, sand, straw and finished with linseed oil and wax. Most everything else could be considered recyclable and natural. Of course everything I’m saying here is on a “for the most part” basis. In other words, “mostly true.” Point is, this little cottage, finished by our son Benito and his wife Amy is truly a work of art and all the materials have been carefully sourced and beautifully integrated.

It’s beautiful the way you made it, this technique has been used since ages in our villages but since the so called advancement in technology, people have stopped using such method of construction. Very well executed and explained. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Girl! What an amazingly described way of making an earthen floor. You too it all the way down to the main layer and made it so easy to understand. High five! You rock!

cool stuff, crazy talk.

@theblackhundreds7124

4 жыл бұрын

Best comment.

That baby is adorable. The floor:unbelievable!❤️👌🏽

I laughed when she said "industry standard". These are methods invented by the ancient ones, not at a university or technical school...so all the Glory be to God who blessed the ancient onea with Wisdom of these. In the old days there were homes called tapia in my country. They took the mud from the river banks, mixed with cow dung & straw and certain grasses. The built houses, walls out of this. Now you'd think "cow dung" gots to smell stink, but i swear there was no scent. As a kid i thought that my granma house was concrete but my father explained it was tapia and what it was. I do remember when workmen had come to demolish it, their sledge hammers were useless, the darn wall would not budge...unlike the modern extensions to the house was concrete & fell so easy to the sledge hammers...i was truely impressed by that!!

Wow, this actually reminds me of my aunt's ooold house in India, with the earthen floor. Heck, it's been so long I'd damned near forgotten about it! Talk about jogging your memory!

I had no idea this existed, but I'm glad I found it! How interesting!

I have no idea why I'm watching this or what its about but I enjoyed all of it.

Excellent team work and a true piece of ART

Awesome building skills and great video. I'd very strongly recommend remembering that it's just as important to let water out as it is to keep it out. Pitch your vapor barrier slightly so it doesn't puddle

I've walked on an earth floor only once in my life and my feet have missed it ever since.

@biggtrux

4 жыл бұрын

@Craig X Ok Mr.Original thought.

@bashkillszombies

4 жыл бұрын

Weirdo.

@samuelasanderinos1521

3 жыл бұрын

Why? What does it feel like?

@user-ep4yk3td2u

3 жыл бұрын

@Craig X I'm 24 but okay lol

@user-ep4yk3td2u

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelasanderinos1521 It just feels so nice and soft yet firm, and cool, like a spa or something. It's also very grounding and calming.

Great having coments from whole world here about different metods.

Well done. Pure chilled out while watching you do the construction. Therapy

My grandma used to tell me how she would lay floors using pretty much the same materials but finishing it off with cow dung. This was in South Africa during the early 1920s. This method was used by both the indigenous black people, as well as (poor working class) folk of European descent. Back then, I think you had to be wealthy to afford homes constructed with “modern” building materials, so a lot of people used what was available around them.

@mudprincess11

4 жыл бұрын

Wayne Holmes a few years back I helped a group of Stanford students get going with modernizing the earthen floor tradition in Rwanda. Check them out, they are doing amazing work! EarthEnable

One day I'll build an earthen home in a farm house for myself!!

Amazing visuals, that cross section told me so much more!

I remember as a toddler being fascinated by and playing with the cast iron floor iron that my Mother used to smooth the dirt floor in our cabin in the far north of Canada. It was a log one room log cabin with a sod roof.

What a stunning floor! I love everything about it- including the way you described it!

Says: Natural Alternative *uses plastic*

@islander959

4 жыл бұрын

Natural plastic 😂

@serdnae

4 жыл бұрын

Could use recycled plastic for sure.

@zanekidd4394

4 жыл бұрын

Hemp plastic?

@dallyh.2960

4 жыл бұрын

Plastic is organic so there's an argument in favor of the video's logic somewhere

@hombreg1

4 жыл бұрын

@@dallyh.2960 So is gasoline

I bet that little baby at the end was in heaven when he got to play with the clay

Beautiful work! And an inspiring video. Well done!

Very nicely explained and demonstrated thanks. My own home has cob walls on a rubblestone plinth and is about 300 years old and because the subsoil has a heavy clay content there were no deep foundations. I work mostly using lime putty mortars and plasters because they can last for many years and if you mix up too much you can put it back in the tub and use it on the next job because it only sets when it's exposed to the air. The other benefits of using lime is that it absorbs co2 and a lime plastered room has better acoustic and feels warmer too. All the best on your next project.

@alexhamon9261

4 жыл бұрын

@@SR-gs8zo look up the lime cycle. It wont absorb more than was driven off the calcium carbonate when it was fired, usually in a process that generates CO2.

In 72 outside of Subic Bay in the Philippines. I saw them scrubbed and then the girls would tie half coconuts to their feet and scrub them. I thought they were concrete but they told me they were dirt and explained the oils of the coconut help to keep them like that and shine. Hard as rock to me and cool even in the heat. Don't try to eat Balut though. Brought back some memories and taught me in detail how it was laid. Thank You.

All the appreciable efforts to make a great video got overlooked with the use of a single plastic film..

Im not sure if these comments are being mean or nice, but idk i really enjoyed this video i like learning new stuffs

@WayneDome-dm8iu

4 жыл бұрын

Be careful that you're not being taught to create a health issue while seeking something that looks cool. Vapor locking plastic will create fungal growth and spores black mold. It shows up when you start getting flooring cracks.

Beautiful technique. I've never seen one done without manure in the mix before.

I was born during the depression in New Mexico and the first house I lived in had a dirt floor. 80 years ago.

I love everything thing about this video. Information, voice, music. EVER THING.

I'm again.. again...and again watching this video because there is only 1 particular floor video in youtube... Remaining all about mud walls, stone construction and roofing!

THANK YOU!!! Very timely as I'm working on my floor in my place now. You are very right about the clay differences. Great video

A year ago I bought her book and I completely recomend it. I am amazed with the video and with the Nito Proyect. Thanks for sharing :D :D

Earthern floors feel so good to walk on! Thanks for the killer video... so awesome!

Boy! A lotta, lotta work! Mighta taken it on when I was young- if I'd heard of it then! God bless you.

This is absolutely the BEST VIDEO about earthen floors that I have found....THANK YOU for such a thorough job explaining the process...your work is beautiful !!

This needs to be taught to every kid in every school start to finish graduation is build your own house.

@joshuamelendez3098

3 жыл бұрын

Yes !

@shunyabinduinteriors

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍

@boyinblue.

3 жыл бұрын

I think it should be more optional, I would have loved it but some kids do better than some with certain things and it wouldn't be all that great to force a bunch of kids to build a house if they are not interested to do not do good with carpentry it building in general. Another option would be the entire grade or class to work together to build a single house each offering their own abilities to better the house.

Wow I had no idea these type of flooring existed. Thank you and very beautiful

Perfection at it's peak! Liked it very much . Keep up the good natural work

Best earth floor video I’ve seen! Thanks for doing this!

Oh wow! How amazingly gorgeous and interesting? I want to install a clay floor now. Thank you for the inspiration!

Can we take a moment to appreciate this makes nice work with her trowel.. Well done ma'am

I may be ignorant here but this looks really flammable with the grass and the oil.

Perfect explanation of how to do an earth floor. Good job 👍🏻

Gorgeous! I would absolutely love to have these truly organic and beautiful floors in a home.

40 years ago where i come from people could not buy concrete, or rebar, any construction method was beyond they could afford, so they made their house out of that but there was called "adobe" even now this little houses are still stand up...

@jenny-eb9nv

4 жыл бұрын

fireblade639 my grandmother and my mom lived in an adobe house in mexico and till this day its still standing. We stay in it whenever we visit mexico!

@yeseniarobles4289

4 жыл бұрын

But those need to be cooked no? It’s like making pottery, cook the product so it can last.

@fireblade639

4 жыл бұрын

@@yeseniarobles4289 actually no... Just the mixture... The dry chopped straw makes an excellent tensioner inside the mixture... I really don't know the exact formulla but still on this time you can see this houses and if you hit with a rock it falls like compressed sand, not cracking like pottery, They use to say something like this "the hungry is the fuel to reach the sky" if your hunger is enough you can be the best of yourself....but who knows...

@Cm0nd00d

4 жыл бұрын

hmm ive only used adobe for photoshop and illustrator

@hombreg1

4 жыл бұрын

Those are common on coastal, hot areas in my country. They're pretty nice.

Mixed with ox blood . Polished up . Brilliant floors for the Zulus

@mudprincess11

4 жыл бұрын

Penelope Hunt do you have any photos you can share with me?

The #1 benefit of an earthen floor is comfort. It is softer to walk/stand on. My wife spent a lot on rubber mats for the kitchen tiles. After a decade she threw them out and bought new. But they are a compromise solution to the hard tiles. They can trip you up. I preferred the soft earthen floors David Easton put in his rammed earth houses. I wish Sukita would have told us how she fixed the cracks she got when the clay was wet. But, a good story/lesson/warning. This is an art, not a science.

Beautiful video. Nice to see things like this aren't left behind.

Earth floor: the natural enemy of white socks lol

@jamestill4172

4 жыл бұрын

White socks are the enemy of white socks. Wear black socks. :ok_hand:

@Sourav-us9qy

4 жыл бұрын

Civil engineer here : plastic is for evenly distributing the loads , similar mechanism is used for making ramps to flyover known as engineered soil

@tailgunner2

4 жыл бұрын

Earthen floors, haven for mold, wood destroying mildew, and natural enemy of all things electrical. Up here 8n New England, there are many an old home built on granite, but the humidity just rots the electrical panels to dust and rust. No thank you.

@nnnnnnnnnick5557

4 жыл бұрын

@@tailgunner2 obviously this isn't meant for England lol

@bramschmitz99

4 жыл бұрын

And dirty feet 😉

Wonderful video. I'm happy to say I get to learn something new everyday.. and something new to put linseed oil on. Great job thank you

Thank you, Sukita Reay et al! The resultant floor is so lovely, cute lil home, too💐

this was a very nice video to gradually fall asleep to

Beautiful work thanks for sharing this!

Great work! And thanks for sharing the knowledge.

Such a nice material and perfect done by women

YES !!!! Very traditional 3 mil plastic and engineered road base - so simple!

I think it is so important that this knowledge gets passed down. You never know when civilization will come to a halt due to an economic depression, war, or natural disaster, and wouldn't it be great if society knew how to take care of themselves. Oh, and this is really beautiful too.

I don’t know how I got here, but this is amazing and now I want to play with making floor :D

I liked the baby smile ☺

i can only imagine how wholesome it must feel to walk on this floor

Higth quality, talent, carefull edition, like ever. Tanks a lot. We need watch this kide of video in Brazil.