Turiya I am so thankful for your videos! It is a DREAM of mine to build my own natural home! Please keep your videos coming! Eagerly waiting for you next workshops!
Here in india, we use soil( clay?) and cow dung mixture to coat our floors and walls. It gives amazing earthy smell and act as a thermal insulator and disinfectant. Yes, you can use a broom on wet mud coat to give it a texture or a design. It has religious aspect too.
@alienated4747 india is a treasure trove of natural building! They inspired my lime work a lot. The soil I use came from cattle pasture, so it definitely has some dung in it. I think that's why it worked so well!
hey, what my people did to decorate the floor was to put peach pips in to the top layer and sand them down to floor level, they also mixed cow dung in with clay instead of hay. then it was polished to a glossy shine with a wax mixture
@user-tg3kv5ez3w so cool, thank you for sharing! Cow dung is also used in india and throughout latin america in natural walls, but I have never heard of peach pits!
you can polish it to a shine if you rub it out during the leather hardness stage with something hard, smooth and preferably heavy the same as making pottery.
Good job, there's always a learning curve, I knew you'd get it down ! Is it all natural underneath down to undisturbed ground or did you do a layer of plastic barrier ?
@eugeniotapia6765 undisturbed! We had problems with fungus eventually in the room that only had 6 inches rock base between the floor and the ground, but no issues elsewhere in the house where there is 2-3 feet drainage layer. So if you want no plastic, do a large rock layer. I was concerned with the plastic that we'd have rising damp in the walls so I did it without!
Turiya I am so thankful for your videos! It is a DREAM of mine to build my own natural home! Please keep your videos coming! Eagerly waiting for you next workshops!
@@juliancroc thank you so much!
Nice video dear..Love from India ❤
Thank you so much!!
Here in india, we use soil( clay?) and cow dung mixture to coat our floors and walls.
It gives amazing earthy smell and act as a thermal insulator and disinfectant.
Yes, you can use a broom on wet mud coat to give it a texture or a design.
It has religious aspect too.
@alienated4747 india is a treasure trove of natural building! They inspired my lime work a lot. The soil I use came from cattle pasture, so it definitely has some dung in it. I think that's why it worked so well!
@@turiyapanama loving this journey of discovering and learning new skills with you (vicariously).
Appreciate your work very much.
@@alienated4747 🙏🙏
It's also the traditional recipe in France for vernacular architecture. Not very much used anymore except for a few self-made sustainable houses.
hey, what my people did to decorate the floor was to put peach pips in to the top layer and sand them down to floor level, they also mixed cow dung in with clay instead of hay. then it was polished to a glossy shine with a wax mixture
@@MikeRade-q3n peach pits!? That is so cool! In what country?
@@turiyapanama south africa.
@user-tg3kv5ez3w so cool, thank you for sharing! Cow dung is also used in india and throughout latin america in natural walls, but I have never heard of peach pits!
its an Afrikaner thing. the farmers grew lots of peaches here. i guess they just found something to use the pits for haha
@@MikeRade-q3n very creative!
Thank you for your videos. Love the way you break down things and explain them.
@@smirglvojtechskovajsa2787 so happy you enjoy them! 😊
Exciting!
Great. How many months all together for alllayers to dry? What is the humidity and temperature in your climate?
High humidity in the tropics! Took about 3 weeks for layers 1 and 2 each and one week for layer 3, so 2 months!
you can polish it to a shine if you rub it out during the leather hardness stage with something hard, smooth and preferably heavy the same as making pottery.
@@astrobreaux that is so interesting! Like a smooth stone that I use for lime plaster? That might work!
Good job, there's always a learning curve, I knew you'd get it down ! Is it all natural underneath down to undisturbed ground or did you do a layer of plastic barrier ?
@eugeniotapia6765 undisturbed! We had problems with fungus eventually in the room that only had 6 inches rock base between the floor and the ground, but no issues elsewhere in the house where there is 2-3 feet drainage layer. So if you want no plastic, do a large rock layer. I was concerned with the plastic that we'd have rising damp in the walls so I did it without!