[Greenbuilding] Redoing all floors

[Ktot (g)]

Interesting photos--thanks.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Buscher 
  To: Green Building 
  Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Redoing all floors


  Photos:  http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=B0&Dato=20110519&Kategori=PHOTO23&Lopenr=305190051&Ref=PH&odyssey=mod|galleriespic


  The front porch (photos 15 and 16) and the walk-out basement apartment floors (starting at photo 62) are both concrete stained/sealed with Rainforest.  The porch looks like the basement in real life, but the lighting makes it look grey in the photos.  We left the stain on some squares longer than others before we wiped it off to give some color variation (photo 72).


  The darker colored brick floors and walls in other pictures are compressed earth block made from the subsoil on site.  The blocks are about 90 lbs/cu ft so they are a little less dense than concrete.  They have a much lower effusivity, so they feel much warmer if you're walking around in socks in the winter.  They are great for direct gain solar storage.  Those floors were sealed with a coat of untinted Earth Paint Rainforest, and several coats of untinted Earth Paint Mountain (cashew oil + other stuff).  The brick walls in the stair have not been sealed.  That's the natural color of the soil.


  Also, Ben Pratt was right.  I find your tone to be very abrasive, and I think you should show more appreciation to the folks on this list.  If this is the way you talk to everyone, I'm not surprised that you didn't have a good experience building your house or getting help when things didn't go well.







  On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Ktot (g) <ktottotc at gmail.com> wrote:

    Do you have any photos of floors you've done this way? Also what kind of prep will it need to remove the current water-based stain and exterior deck sealer (which I only found out was made for outdoors, not indoors, after the problems began being noticed)?


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