Revisions log for Answer #914

A house made of adobe is quite an interesting construction, the materials for construction require a minimum, if you do not take into account the physical labor, which should be oh so much.

The advantages of thermal and noise insulation, the wood for heating purposes consumes even less than wood, and if the shoot around the corner will begin unlikely to hear.

The disadvantages are its openness to the world, it must breathe, since the main composition of clay, which is hygroscopic, which is the ability to collect moisture, but it is difficult to return it. If only the house does not breathe, it begins to get wet and very quickly falls into disrepair. Typically, these houses are simply whitewashed, cladding them with anything makes no sense, there is nowhere warmer.

Inside, I think allowed to plaster, the same clay mortar for leveling and sticking paper wallpaper. But in no way cement or cellophane-plastic.