Earthen floor

Earthen floors, also known as cob floors, earth floors, rammed earth floors, or clay floors, are a fantastic eco friendly flooring system. For full information please see www.earthfloors.co.uk What are Earthen Floors? An earthen floor consists of a combination of clay, sand and fibre. You can usually use a local soil to provide at least...

This week, I traveled to eastern Pennsylvania to work with Gabe Franklin of The Art of Plaster to install a large earthen floor in a straw bale home. We’ve been in...

Floors made of Dirt? Yeah, people are taking back an old recipe for their floors…it’s cool in the summer, it holds the heat in the winter, it’s durable cheap and it’s not to…

The project of replacing the earthen floor is still continuing, as we wait for the base layer of earthen floor to dry before we proceed with applying a finish layer....

Curious about how to make an earthen floor, and the benefits of having earthen floors in your home? Read ahead to learn more about construction basics.

Earth floors, also known as adobe floors, are made of sand, clay, and straw, bound together with linseed oil. In essence it’s a kind of ‘earth linoleum’, since early linoleum was …

Step-by-step instructions to build a traditional Tataki earthen floor.

earthen floor

My first step onto an earthen floor (sometimes called a ‘poured adobe’ floor) awakened me.