Re: SB: radiant tubing in adobe floor

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

Sgrìobh Carolyn Hoagland:

>  We are getting ready to install an adoble floor in leiu of a slab, 
>and are trying to figure out how to hold the tubing down and in 
>place during an "adobe stomping party."

     Cinder blocks worked for me.  Get the pipe covered up to the 
cinder block, remove the cinder block, cover to the next cinder 
block, etc.  Worked like a charm.

>Also, we've never done this before and the books I've read don't 
>seem to say how soupy this needs to be in order to be self leveling. 
>We are doing a room that is 16x32.  We are assuming it will crack 
>and we will fill those with a dry mix and wet the floor again.

     If you mix it wet enough to self-level, it will definitely crack, 
big time.  Check the archives for my post entitled "An Earthen Floor 
Story compiled" for my account of how I did mine, and what it was 
like.  I leveled it by hand.

-Speireag.

-- 
Be a full bucket,
drawn up the dark way of a well,
then lifted out,
into the light.
--Jalal al-Din Rumi, Sufi poet

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