Floor and Floor Treatments

Floor And Floor Treatments 3 (1+2)

Lesson :04 NON-RESILIENT: TRADITIONAL FLOORING

Muram Flooring

Any disintegrated rock is called as Muram. Muram floors are constructed in India because of the same reasons as that of mud floors. They possess similar characteristic as that of mud. Its construction technique is difficult than mud floor.

Characteristics:

• Same as mud floor.

Construction technique:

• A hard bed is prepared by laying about 5 cm thick layer of broken hard brick- bats and then rammed well.
• On this hard bed 15 cm thick layer of muram is laid with coarser pieces of brick badts at bottom and finer at the top.
• Over this 25 cm of thick layer of powdery muram is spread.
• Water is sprinkled on entire surface and rammed well.
• After ramming the surface is saturated with water so that a thin layer is formed on the top of the rammed surface.
• The surface is left in this condition for a day and then rammed with wooden thapies aparn for 3 days.
• After this surface is rubbed with thick cow dung paste and floor is rammed for two days.
• Finally over hard surface a thin coat of cement and cow dung slurry is applied evenly.

Maintenance:

• Same as mud floor.