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Cob Earth berming cob buildings?Jud Malone jmalone at boydmaier.comMon May 4 07:57:37 CDT 1998
Hello everybody, I'm going to build a house into a south-sloping mountainside in WVA this summer, and I would like to know if it is possible to berm cob walls. Assuming that I would have good drainage away from the house, would the cob walls absorb too much moisture from the surrounding dirt? How about an earth-bermed rock wall faced on the inside with cob? Any and all suggestions and advice will be appreciated. Jud Malone -------------- next part -------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hello everybody,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I'm going to build a house into a south-sloping mountainside in WVA this summer, and I would like to know if it is possible to berm cob walls. Assuming that I would have good drainage away from the house, would the cob walls absorb too much moisture from the surrounding dirt? How about an earth-bermed rock wall faced on the inside with cob? Any and all suggestions and advice will be appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Jud Malone</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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