How this node works
The floor is built up in coats on a sound substrate: a bonding scratch coat, a coarser base of lime and crushed brick, then a fine layer. Each is beaten at length - hence battuto - to compact it and drive out the air that would weaken it. Marble chips can be scattered onto the fine layer and beaten in, terrazzo-fashion, before the whole surface is ground flat and waxed to a soft, deep sheen.
Key points
- Scratch / bond coat
- Base coat (coarse brick)
- Fine layer
- Marble chips
- Beating (compacts)
- Sowing the chips
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