Re: SB: Bales in Floor

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh S. G. Fawthrop:

>I am thinking of adding bales into the floor but am having trouble 
>justifying the extra expense to myself.   My thoughts are:

     This comes up every once in a while.  The list experts predicted 
a few years ago that these floors would fail, because there would be 
inevitable moisture infiltration from below, regardless of any 
reasonable precaution.  Subsequent actual measurement of these floors 
which have been in place for a few years have borne these predictions 
out:  in the very best cases, moisture levels were very borderline, 
and in the others, decomposition was well on its way.

     Also, it uses lots of concrete.  It's a nifty idea, but it 
doesn't survive contact with the real world.

-Speireag.
-- 
To face death, live.

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