Rammed Earth Floor

The end result is a very beautiful slightly textured very hard earth floor.

Rammed earth floor. Its 1700 sf voluminous plan consists of a 840 sf main floor level w an open living kitchen a 1st floor master bedroom or home office with en suite bath a powder room and stackable hidden laundry closet. Performance of our earth adobe floors. Earthen floors along with stone and sometimes wood were used as threshing floors.

A professional rammed earth home builder shares his methods for pouring low cost soil cement floors that are not only durable but also extremely handsome in appearance. In length with flexible joints. Ecology action and matternetwork.

The rammed earth floor is durable enough to withstand the antics of two active kids and yet comfortable for the adults in the household. Earthen floors were used in ancient greece and in many other countries in ancient times. At dancing rabbit ecovillage we ve found our earthen floor adobe floor hybrid to be a cheap easy to install durable ecological flooring solution.

Materials for the rammed earth used on this project were sourced from a local quarry which kept the embodied energy low. The material is a mix of 20 to 30 clay sand and 5 to 10 cement for strength and durability. Rammed earth also known as taipa in portuguese tapial or tapia in spanish tàpia in catalan pisé de terre in french and hāngtǔ 夯土 in chinese is a technique for constructing foundations floors and walls using natural raw materials such as earth chalk lime or gravel.

In china most cottages and smaller houses also had earthen floors made of rammed earth and sealed with raw linseed. Rammed earth walls are built in panels of approximately 11 5 ft. In cold wet climates a silicate based waterproofing agent is often added to the mix.

Rammed earth floors rammed earth is hailed as the most environmentally friendly building material available today. David easton author of the rammed earth house and owner of rammed earth works in california shares his earth floor building method in popular science. Despite not being scratch resistant these floors are easily repairable.