Posted by jackinok on December 07, 2011 at 08:30:55 from (162.58.82.136):
In Reply to: Shop floor is dirt posted by 37Chief on December 06, 2011 at 18:12:46:
grew up on dirt floors,barn,sheds,house and all! Heres the trick to making dirt as hard as concrete, first youve got to keep the water out with proper drainage outside, and the real trick? Dishwater, honestly,dont just dump it on your floor,sprinkle it on and let it soak in. Heres why it works,soap and especialy the old soaps we had as kids were made up of a large amount of phosphates,surfectants,and very often lye. The phosphates dry hard,the surfectants allow moisture to wick up,and the lye kills the germs that makes odors. Add that to the fact that lye is caustic and it sort of naturally disolves the lime in the soil,then drys leaving sort of a natural cement. Of course you would have from washing dishes and things a small amount of grease in the water. Surfectant in the soaps would allow this to penetrate top layer of ground until it became too weak and the grease would stay there. So what you wind up with over time is , a layer of hard dirt from the lye and phosphates working on the lime in soil(CONCRETE basically), that would turn moisture both on top where it could be wiped up,and below the surface to keep floors from being damp all the time. its hard for us to remember, but most of the world still lives on dirt floors. And women take pride in keeping them clean. They have rugs,furniture,and everything else we have today on ours,but they do it on a surface that never wears out,and gets better as it ages. My grandma would beat you if she caught you digging in her floor! How many times were we told as kids to "pick up our feet"? ever wonder where that came from? You were considered uncouth if you shuffled your feet across a neighbors floor. Of course today we pour concrete and stain it to look like dirt,its much faster,LOL
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