antoinette
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I've got a floor to lay in an old stone building - c1830, shallow footings, earth floor. It's going to be a workshop so a good place to test ideas and it has to be able to withstand a working environment.
I'd like to lay flagstones and as these would have been laid on the earth floor originally I'm wondering why I can't do that now?
A lot of people talk about damp and earth floors and I understand that 200 years after they're installed there may be problems but I wonder what were they like in the first 50-100 years?
The go-to approach for a buildings like mine seems to be limecrete. I've researched and generally limecrete is used in old buildings as an alternative concrete for breathability, flexibility etc. The process mirrors concrete closely - dig out, layer of aggregate etc etc limecrete.
I don't want to do that, I don't think it's necessary or a justified expense in a workshop and I don't want to replicate a concrete slab. I want to replicate an earth floor and if possible with improve stability and moisture management if modern tech allows.
So what do people think? What's the simplest most minimalist approach? What are the pitfalls?
I'd like to lay flagstones and as these would have been laid on the earth floor originally I'm wondering why I can't do that now?
A lot of people talk about damp and earth floors and I understand that 200 years after they're installed there may be problems but I wonder what were they like in the first 50-100 years?
The go-to approach for a buildings like mine seems to be limecrete. I've researched and generally limecrete is used in old buildings as an alternative concrete for breathability, flexibility etc. The process mirrors concrete closely - dig out, layer of aggregate etc etc limecrete.
I don't want to do that, I don't think it's necessary or a justified expense in a workshop and I don't want to replicate a concrete slab. I want to replicate an earth floor and if possible with improve stability and moisture management if modern tech allows.
So what do people think? What's the simplest most minimalist approach? What are the pitfalls?