SB: Re: Window sills

["Malcom Snakesfield" <snakesfield@hotmail.com>]

I will be making indoor sills as well, but my post refers to outdoor sills. 
I want them to have a different color and texture than the stucco. I would 
like the sills to look and feel like they were cut from stone. Thanks
>From: "Robert Bolman" <robtb@efn.org>
>To: "Malcom Snakesfield" <snakesfield@hotmail.com>, <strawbale@crest.org>
>Subject: Re: Window sills
>Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 02:47:40 -0700
>
> >Can anyone offer advice or recommend literature for building in-place 
>cast
> >concrete window sills? Thanks!
>
>The inevitable discrepency between the top of the bales at the windows and
>the finished window sill height is better made up with cob than by pouring 
>a
>little slab.  From an environmental POV, the difference should be obvious.
>From a practical POV, with cob, you needn't form it - instead, you can
>sculpt it into place including a shelf-like lip jutting out into the room.
>Put on an earthen plaster and finish it with linseed oil (along with the
>floor).
>
>Rob
>
>BTW, I assume you meant INDOOR window sills.
>
>

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