I understand they were done by the "pros" from the bottom up with a slight
slope to the top of the layer so that any water that seeps into the matrix
would be shed down and outward.  I always figured that if it was all done
in one job it wouldn't matter, although any straw of fiber inclusions meant
to strengthen may have worked better with a particular alignment.

It also seems that by starting at the top the wet and quite plastic mud
would slough off as it had no support below.

I would like to know if it had to be a team effort, with a mudder on the
inside and one on the outside, keeping pace and keeping the job neat and tidy.

         Dan W.



At 10:30 PM 8/4/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Anyone know if mud / wattle & daub, bouzillage walls were mudded from bottom
>to top or top to bottom.
>
>Jim Parker