[Greenbuilding] [Strawbale] Ecological shower enclosure options

[Chris Green]

josephbecker at riseup.net wrote:
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 > I will be doing exterior lime and interior clay plasters on this house. I
 > have heard of lime plaster showers.  I have lime plaster experience but
 > how is this different? How do they hold up?

The lime plater in question would be tadelakt, a traditional lime 
plastering technique used mostly in Morocco, although it is becoming 
more common in parts of Europe, and is used to some extent in North 
America now.
The exact technical details of this material have slipped my mind, but 
it seems to be very, even extremely, durable.
Here are some links for you.

Here is the Wikipedia link for tadelakt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadelakt

The Tierrafino Company in the Netherlands is a well known supplier of 
the ingredients for this type of finish:
http://www.tierrafino.nl/en/tadelakt.html

The Budwell company in New York specializes in earthen materials, 
including tadelakt--there are lots of exciting photos here.
http://www.budwell.com/tadelakt.html

Tadelakt workshops in Provence, France:
http://www.avignon-et-provence.com/leisure-tourism/art-workshop/tadelakt.htm
Yeah, I know...it's a long way to travel for a 2-day workshop...but the 
food should be fantastic...:-)

I believe at least two listmembers have hands-on experience using 
tadelakt, so they might offer some comments.

Cheers,

Chris Green.