I also prefer to use ciment/lime for the floors... and the result can be really very unexpensive and beautiful. I do the finishing with white ciment and mineral pigments and a 2 or 3 layers of acrilic waterbased vernis (could not found nothing better yet), to really protect the floor from wines, oils, etc...<div>

<br><div>The material's price:  about 2 euros/m2 (!!)</div><div><br></div><div>Here is an exemple: <a href="http://www.strawhouses.carbonmade.com/">http://www.strawhouses.carbonmade.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>
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<div><br></div><div>Jorge Van Krieken</div><div>Portugal<br><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Bruce King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org">bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">Happy New Year, baleheads!</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">

I came across the article linked below about how adding concrete over earthen floors has a measurable positive impact on occupant <span style="font-size:12px">health</span>--  especially children's.  Many of us think "Yuck!" at the idea of concrete instead of earthen floors, but you can't argue with the science.</div>

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<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Paving Paradise - by Charles Kenny | Foreign Policy</div><a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/paving_paradise" target="_blank">http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/paving_paradise</a><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">

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