Sunday, March 25, 2007

How to construct Mud Flooring?

Firstly, the floor bed should be well prepared.

A 25 cm thick layer of selected moist earth is evenly spread out and is rammed well so as to get a consolidated thick ness of about 15 cm.

It is important that no water is used during the process of ramming.

In order to prevent the formation of cracks after drying, chopped straw in small quantity is mixed with the moist earth before ramming.

The floor is maintained by giving a thin cement cow dung wash (1:2 to 1:3) once or twice a week.

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