An ancient technique saves an old carriage house
“Seven shovelfuls of sand, a bucket of clay, and then that much water, depending on how much it rained,” remembers Shannon Kyles, a retired architectural history teacher and author of OntarioArchitecture.com. “This much straw –”
“Yeah, it fit in that cat litter box,” adds log contractor Bill Beaton helpfully.
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