Earthen Floors: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Practice

This book is very complete. It has an interesting perspective about natural buildings in general, with consistent data (though the book was written in 2014). The technical information about how to make an earthen floor is very precise and detailed. It's my best guide when making, repairing and/or maintaining earthen floors, specially because it's a knowledge that's is not yet widely spread.

This is exactly what we were looking for. It tells us everything we need to know about how to install our earthen floor in the strawbale/cob building we are making. Our floor will be installed on the ground not o we subflooring, so this is perfect. :-DWe are excited to put the knowledge in this book to use and get down and dirty to creat a beautiful floor for the life of our home.

So far I haven't found anything to dislike about it, seems like it could be the best or at least one of the best books on the subject. Has a great color photo gallery of examples.

Fascinating and useful book.

Me agrado

This book gives solid details for building an earthen floor. I just finished reading it yesterday and am confident that I could follow the directions and use their method to produce a good looking earthen floor. The book gives details on what to do differently if installing the floor over a wood floor, concrete slab, or crushed rock. The methods and materials given look to meet building codes.

Finally a comprehensive book on how to do this flooring it's really hard to find this information out that offers constructive detail, it's like trying to find something mystical, if information easy to access it removes it from the world of "too hard" and that's just alternative crap when it should be something we should all being doing.

I have built several earthen floors. Sukita provides all the basic information if this is your first floor. It's essential reading. I especially liked the information about color washes and sanding the floor, I had never heard of either of these techniques and I will try them on my next floor.

Llego como previsto, con un paquete muy bien hecho. Gracias.

Me imaginaba el libro más grande y con más imágenes en color. Deberían poner en la reseña el tamaño del libro, el tipo de hoja en que se ha impreso y si las láminas e imágenes son en color o no. Para este tipo de libros técnicos es importante y es una pena descubrir que la mayor parte del libro es en blanco y negro. Aún así vale la pena.

About the bookExtremely information though a bit costly but it's worth it. Lot of aspects are mentioned in depth practically. The images help a lot.About the publisherThe first impression was this book is a pirated version and I was about to return it but then I realized the book look different (not like other brand new books even though it was brand new). After reading the last page I came to know its made up from recycled papers and I was very impressed with the fact that so many tress were saved to publish this book.About sellerThe book came neatly packed and came of time.Over good product

Haven't found a better book on the market. Great pictures, drawings. It is a masterpiece! Actually I want to build an earthen floor in our future load bearing straw bale house and researched for a comprihensive book and this is the one I found which is perfect for my project. Very grateful.

Earthen Floors ist ein inspirierendes Buch. Für 5 Sterne fehlen dem Buch mehr qualitativ hochwertige Bilder (meist nur Schwarz weiß).