Education-Workshop EARTHEN FLOOR INSTALLATION TRAINING WORKSHOP

Earthen Floor Installation Training Workshop

The instructions include: preparing the space, tool use, mixing, and application techniques for both base floor and finish floor, burnishing, finishing a dry floor and doing repairs. There will be lots of time actually laying a finish floor. Participants will receive a completion certificate, which will count towards becoming a certified Claylin installer. Open for 8-10 participants.

Schedule: All days start at 9am and could end early, depending on what gets done and all the questions. Wear clothes that you can get dirty; I like to wear coveralls so I can go home clean. Bring gloves that can get wet, and your favorite ear and eye protection if you have some, there will be some available if not. Bring water, snacks and lunch; there will be an hour lunch break on the longer days. March 23: Preparing the space, preparing materials, safety and mixing (9-5) March 24: Pouring and troweling the floor (9-5) March 25: Burnishing the floor (9-1) March 31: Oiling and waxing the floor (9-1) April 7: Buffing the floor (9-1) To register: Contact Jules at mrpinkeyez@gmail.com or 503.544.0047 to check for available space and then send in a check and bottom of this paper to: Oregon Trades Women, Inc at 1714 NE Alberta, Portland Oregon 97211. You will get and email to let you know the location of the workshop.

Costs: $175 checks made out to Oregon Tradeswomen Inc. (note the Earthen Floor workshop on check and send bottom of this paper in with check)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATIOIN ABOUT FROM THESE HANDS, LLC AND OREGON TRADESWOMEN, INC.

Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. is a non-profit working to support the success of women in the construction trades since 1989. We offer a free pre-apprenticeship for women, girls’ workshops and summer camps and we advocate for gender equity in living wage trades careers. Your participation will help us move into our exciting new LEED certified space and at the same time support our work in the community. We will graduate over 140 women from our programs, work with over 70 girls this year and provide over 5000 hours of volunteer community work for non-profits. Go to www.tradeswomen.net for more info.

From These Hands, LLC 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; Claylin, a bagged earthen floor mix. She is teaching workshops to help bring more contractors and homeowners into the knowledge of using this mix. Claylin will have regional manufacturing facilities and limited shipping. Local is at the center of our philosophy. Go to www.sukita.com to see more.