[Greenbuilding] adobe walls

[Stephen Collette]

Halima,

water goes where it wants. If it gets into the tiled adobe walls, I'm  
not sure how it would get out. I would think that you could leave the  
adobe walls untiled and have them absorb and release moisture slowly  
and safely. I don't have experience with adobe so I can't comment from  
experience. Unless it's a direct water exposure the adobe should take  
it from a material property perspective. I'm leary to trap soft  
squishy mud inside tiles.

Stephen

Stephen Collette BBEC, LEED AP
Principal
Your Healthy House - Indoor Environmental Testing & Building Consulting
www.yourhealthyhouse.ca
stephen at yourhealthyhouse.ca
705.652.5159
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:38:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: najib brimah <atelier12003 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Greenbuilding] bathroom tiles in adobe buildings
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> Hi everyone
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> Am thinking of having a shower cubicle in something I intend to  
> build, which will be separated from the wc area by a low wall, about  
> shoulder-high. The building will be of unstabilised adobes. What I  
> am wondering is if with all the moisture expected in a bathroom,  
> will a wall like this, tiled on both sides and on top, be a  
> breathing wall that will survive well without crumbling at some  
> point? The whole of the inside of this shower/wc space will be tiled  
> but my thinking is that since the tiling for the other walls will be  
> on one side alone (opposite sides of these are external walls or  
> walls of bedrooms) the adobes will not be sandwiched between two  
> sets of tiling. Am I right in being worried about this sandwich  
> effect?  What suggestions do any of you have for the bathroom? -  
> inexpensive solutions I mean!
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> Halima P Brimah
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