Oiling the Earthen Floor Part 3 | Straw Bale House Build
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- After allowing the floors to dry thoroughly and getting our range hood installed (previous video), we were ready to oil the floors! This is the last (and a crucial) step to earthen floors. We used healthy linseed oil from Tried and True that we mixed with 100% natural citrus solvent to thin the oil. We started with the perimeter then the remaining areas. We did 4 coats total, each one right after the other. We do plan to do another coat or two before we move into the house to give it one final 'seal'. Thanks again for watching our channel!
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I’d seen someplace about applying coats of oil to an earthen floor: Once a day for a week, Once a week for a month, Once a month for a year, and Once a Year for life. I can’t wait to get to this stage in our house construction!
Interesting!
I love how you’re including your kids in the construction of your home. Instilling great memories and a sense of accomplishment and competence that comes from learning skills in childhood. 💕
"Gutsy" move, I guess in essence you made clay tile. You could have imported Mexican dirt for about $2.50 a sq. tile, instead you made your own rectangular pieces of clay for half the price/ so-to-speak. That is very cool, and so is your home and family. God bless each and every one.
Congratulations! Your floor is Beautiful. It was so heartwarming to see your Children so involved and doing such a Great job. I'll say it again, you guys are amazing.
thank you
Wow, that turned out so nice! 👍
thank you!
We just got our earth floors done. It has some character, but we love it! 🙂🏜️
Its so nice when childrens are involved in the house building proces. They incur this knowledge right from childhood. A beautiful spacious living space called house. God bless ☺️👌👍🙏🏠🌳 nice you chose sustainable way of living and practice 👌👍
Couldn't agree more! thank you
It is one of the best builds I've seen so creative and the design original 💕💞👍
The floors look awesome...even with the burnished areas. 😎
thank you!
Sure looks durable, warm, and natural. Just like your family. Kids will remember the awesomeness. Oh, btw, some of my family is 4th generation at the same house, 5th on the same property. You know, you started a legacy.
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It is just beautiful! I was surprised at how much it darkened up. I love how the kids are getting in and helping. What fabulous memories for you all.
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Looks really awesome guys. I'm inspired to try this somewhere.
thank you, best of luck!
As always absolutely brilliant the kids seemed to really enjoy helping the floor looks fantastic.
thank you!
New cob video. Yea. I have been planning a similar floor for a few. I just came back around to the subject and found your video. Thank you for sharing.
you are welcome!
Your house is looking incredible. We finally got our roof on our straw bale home. It seems like it’s taking forever. 😃👍❤️
thank you. you will get there, one step at a time!
Two words “broom handle”. Less bending over and on your knees. I could not have refinished floors without a boom handle on the roller. And just spray it!!
yes, so many lessons learned!
I love you guys keep it up and don't forget to love your wife
Beautiful
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I think I would have found a special place to capture some footprints in the floor. Just saying.
another great idea ❤❤❤
Loving your floors!! Just curious how it cleans- and how does it hold up? Does it chip? Scratch? 5 kiddos here 😅
We have very very hard water so water spots are always showing on the floors even after mopping it seems. But lf you can get a smoother finish than us, that would help. Scratches? Yes, the dogs leave scratches (especially when chasing after the cats 🙄🫣) but they seem to buffer out. The chair legs are the worst with the floors. Need good chair pads otherwise they mark the floors often. I was making Coconut milk that was steaming hot and spilled about 4 cups on the floor - you can see exactly where that happened and it looks very 'dirty'. I need to reoil that area. Overall I love the grounding, earthiness of the floors but I think they would bother many people because it isn't as easy to keep them looking clean. Hope that helps!
Do you have an exact mixture of how you guys did this floor I would like to do the same
every region will vary depending on the clay/sand content in your soil. we did roughly 3parts soil to 1 part sand, and added straw as we went.. it is has held up really well thus far! but again, you will need to do sample batches starting with small pour samples then once you have a better idea of your ratio, pour those in a bigger sample (3X3' would be good) - this will show you how your mix holds up to a larger surface area. i definitely recommend working to achieve a smoother surface area (between trowel and burnishing) than what we did, it makes it harder to sweep! best of luck!
How many gallons of danish oil and citrus solvent. Can you show pictures what it looks like after it dries.
the video at the end is of after it has dried. but the dust and dirt from kids/country life/construction is another story 🤣.. so now it looks a little lighter, you will be able to see this in our next videos coming up. I believe it was 16 gallons of oil and 4 gallons of solvent. i mentioned in the video how much oil was used I just can't recall for sure right now. Thanks for watching!
We used 8 gallons of linseed oil on our 600 square feet of earthen floor, so pretty similar usage. Our texture probably made it use a little more.
Will it lighten up after it dries.
not too much but the dust and dirt has really 'lightened' it up now 🤣