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Cob mortarJud Malone jmalone at boydmaier.comThu Oct 8 14:41:38 CDT 1998
I'm in the midst of building a stone foundation for a cob house. Up to this point I've been laying the stones dry(I haven't reached ground level yet and my foundation trench is about 2 1/2 feet deep). But I was thinking that I would use mortar once I reach ground level in order to keep drafts and critters out. My first question is: how useful is mortar for keeping out drafts and critters? Could I just plaster over the stone on the inside of the building once I'm done with the same effect? My other question is: has anybody used cob for mortar, and how well does it work? Thanks in advance. 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>I'm in the midst of building a stone foundation for a cob house. Up to this point I've been laying the stones dry(I haven't reached ground level yet and my foundation trench is about 2 1/2 feet deep). But I was thinking that I would use mortar once I reach ground level in order to keep drafts and critters out. My first question is: how useful is mortar for keeping out drafts and critters? Could I just plaster over the stone on the inside of the building once I'm done with the same effect? My other question is: has anybody used cob for mortar, and how well does it work? Thanks in advance.</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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