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"Always Becoming" construction at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. This image by Beel Steen (of course) is first of 67 in a collection entitled "Always Becoming Goes to Mexico" that can be viewed at
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Re: floors
The thing with the sand to settle the bricks/stone is that with pets, if they have an "accident" of any sort, it might soak into the sand. A giant spill of
Posted - Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:57 pm
 Caralee
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Re: floors
... [Snip}  You might be able to set the bricks in such a way that you could grout them or sweep a sand/cement mix into the cracks to reduce seepage.< This is
Posted - Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:24 am
 Chris Green
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Re: floors
Is the avoidance of concrete for environmental reasons? Fired brick is worse for the environment than concrete (higher embodied energy and, in a floor on
Posted - Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:04 am
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Hello.  I am sure others will weigh in with more, and most likely better, info., but here goes.  I think you can do what you are thinking, but there are some
Posted - Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:51 am
 Nancy or David Gray
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Hi y'all: I will be building a small strawbale home in northern new mexico with a rubble trench foundation and a perimeter concrete "grade beam". I am
Posted - Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:18 am
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