Another 34 square meters of plaster removed in 4 days. It’s about 2100 kg which means about 60 kg/m2.
In total I removed 15’000 kg…
Another room cleared of its cement plaster.
Playing around with earth
Like most of the boys I like to play. As I found the earth used to build the house (almost) just under my feet. I prepared a few tests to find out about some of its charachteristics. Doing so I thought about Tadelakt and thought of applying a similar polishing to an earthen ball. The result quite fascinated me…
Removing the floor of the basement: first room
Whoever looked at it gave me the advice to leave it just as it is. I thought about it but couldn’t help it. I felt that it needed to be removed.
It was in two cement layers. After removing the first one humidity was getting visible and the smell was not the nicest also.
Under the second one I found soil. But the surface is a mix of soil and lime. Underneath I found finally the native earth used to build the house. It’s colour is dark brown and contains only a little quantity of clay. But the clay seems pretty strong.
