Eliminating odors and soot from a house with clay plaster - ideas?

  • Erstellt am 2021-04-07 19:11:30

danabanana

2021-04-07 22:20:27
  • #1
From bottom to top: rammed earth, 30cm sand, beams embedded in sand without contact with the walls, wooden floorboards on top
 

danabanana

2021-04-07 22:21:52
  • #2
OK, the entire clay plaster will be removed in the kitchen. How would you proceed with the rooms that only have a musty smell (but no soot or smoke odor)?
 

Myrna_Loy

2021-04-07 22:23:45
  • #3
Such floors always smell slightly earthy and often have a problem with the beams. That all sounds like a terrible money pit.
 

Smialbuddler

2021-04-08 18:35:56
  • #4
Perhaps it is also interesting what your goal is. You certainly did not buy such a house with the claim that it would become a completely dry, insulated, and airtight new building. If you did, I unfortunately also see ’s money pit. Do you want to have your main residence there or should it only be a vacation home occupied on a weekly basis? I think that with this type of construction you will always retain a kind of humid climate, unless you build back on the foundation walls...
 

Tolentino

2021-04-08 19:17:08
  • #5
Yes, but I also wouldn’t want to inhale mold spores for two times two weeks a year. Completely chipping off the plaster and reapplying it is also far from a complete modernization to the energy saving ordinance standard.
 

Smialbuddler

2021-04-08 19:57:11
  • #6

Something definitely has to be done!! But if it’s only about mold, there are apparently good disinfection companies; it doesn’t necessarily have to all be redone.
For me, it was mainly about the probably persistent moisture in the floor and probably also the walls. That didn’t sound like a functional horizontal barrier, more like earth-moist walls... But I’m not an expert either.
 
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