Wall thickness & Colorado contacts (fwd)

[Shannon C. Dealy]

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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 18:37 EST
From: Kiko Denzer <0007558182 at mcimail.com>
To: shannon dealy <dealy at deatech.com>
Subject: coblist


cob contacts in CO:
Cedar Rose, CRG Designs
POB 113
Carbondale, CO 81623
970-963-0437

Keith and Tracy Lindauer
POB 113
Rico CO 81332
970-967-2882
keithl at sunville.com

 
A guy in Oregon has gotten interior, non-bearing cob walls past code
with a thickness to height ratio of 1:5 (one foot in width for every
5 feet of height). I am planning a shed/studio/house that will have 
walls about 16" thick at the base. Walls can (and probably should) taper
as you go up, about 3" in four feet of height. I wouldn't want to build
walls of less than a foot thick unless they were infill for post and beam,
but I'm no expert. 

Good Luck. 

Kiko Denzer