Cob verify?

Sat Dec 19 01:41:33 CST 1998

Cob has a mediocre insulation value, but extraordinairy thermal mass.
In practice, what that means is that while cob does lose heat, it does
so slowly. So you end up with a fairly temperature-stable home. If you
have a fireplace, you should be in pretty good shape.

If you want even better results, you might consider a cob-strawbale
hybrid. Put strawbale on the N, E, & W walls, with Cob on the southern
& interior walls for thermal mass. The general feedback is that this
works well.

Mike

Bob Ewing wrote:

>  Greetings the following quote comes from an architect on another
> list, can anyone here either verify or disprove it?  She said that
> cob is great in
> the desert, but not in Vermont because of it's insulation
> value.   Thanks,Bob Ewing

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Cob has a mediocre insulation value, but extraordinairy thermal mass. In
practice, what that means is that while cob does lose heat, it does so
slowly. So you end up with a fairly temperature-stable home. If you have
a fireplace, you should be in pretty good shape.

<P>If you want even better results, you might consider a cob-strawbale
hybrid. Put strawbale on the N, E, & W walls, with Cob on the southern
& interior walls for thermal mass. The general feedback is that this
works well.

<P>Mike

<P>Bob Ewing wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=-1>Greetings
the following quote comes from an architect on another list, can anyone
here either verify or disprove it?</FONT></FONT>  <FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=-1>She
said that cob is great in</FONT></FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=-1>the desert, but not in Vermont
because of it's insulation value.</FONT></FONT>   <FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=-1>Thanks,</FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=-1>Bob
Ewing</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>

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