[Greenbuilding] Work shop floor

[Lance Collins]

Hi Johua,

If you could find a source of magnesium based cement you could do a 
conventional looking concrete floor and also be a carbon sink.

Lance

p.s. Magnesium is chemically similar to calcium but unlike calcium 
based cements magnesium based cements absorb carbon dioxide as they set.
See www.tececo.com


At 06:51 AM 29/05/2008, you wrote:

>On 2008, May 28, at 15:58, Corwyn wrote:
>
> > On May 28, 2008, at 14:57, Speireag Alden wrote:
> >
> >> Hello, all.
> >>
> >>      I'm getting to bringing the floor of my work shop up to final
> >> grade.  Guess I should figure out how I'm going to do it.
> >
> > Got any unsplitable firewood?  End grain wood might be nice.   Not
> > sure what sort of surface you are looking for.
>
>
>      Hm... we have plenty of beech around here, which is largely
>unsplittable, but easily cut into rounds.  Anyone know how beech
>holds up in an end-grain floor?
>
>      I'd rather not varnish the floor in the work room, so the best
>I'd be able to do would be penetrating oil.  End grain would probably
>soak the stuff up.  Hm...
>
>-Speireag.