Thursday, September 30, 2010

More Plaster tests

Here's the inside of the main bedroom closet, with 4 more recipes on it. We'll be watching it closely for cracks:

Here's the cracked up test section with some lime wash painted on it to see what that would do. Turns out that really makes it white! this was just one quick pass. If we did 4 coats or so on some good plaster, we should have some white walls.

Every so often, we forget to turn off the hose at the faucet overnight. Sometimes the pistol sprayer leaks a little bit, and even though we always put it back in a bucket, if we forget to turn it off, it leaks all over over night. How frustrating. This is where the wood stove will go.

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Design Mistakes in my cob house

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