Earthen Floor Installation Training
| When: | July 28th - July 30th |
Where: |
Aprovecho Education Center |
| How Much: | $350 (includes all organic meals, lodging, instruction, and course materials). |
This workshop is a three day intensive led by: Sukita Reay Crimmel
Instruction includes: tool use, mixing, preparing the space, application techniques from basic to advance for both base floor and finish floor, finishing a dry floor and doing repairs.
There will be lots of time spent actually laying a finish floor and some time to play with colors. Participants will receive a completion certificate and training manual. One evening there will be a slide show of completed works by From These Hands, LLC.
Contact: Chris Foraker for questions or to enroll. (302) 650-4237 or email: chris_foraker@yahoo.com
Sukita Reay Crimmel is the founder of From These Hands, LLC. Coming out of architecture school with a new found love of earthen building materials, Sukita headed to Portland to manifest her vision of bringing earthen building materials into existing and new homes. In 2007, after five years of designing and building various earthen projects, Sukita focused on learning the trade of laying earthen floors. In 2010 Sukita is starting a new adventure. She will be teaching workshops to help bring more contractors and homeowners into the knowledge of using earthen building materials.