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Cob: how do folks handle other responsibilities duringbuilding?crtaylor tms at northcoast.comThu Aug 26 19:11:01 CDT 1999
The solution in my opinion is for someone to devise a machine which will prepare the raw materials, mix the cob, and place it ON the wall. When this is done, then we will be very close to providing to folks such as you the means to build with cob at a low cost amidst the demands of everday life. >jeanne keevan-lynch said: > Will machine-applied cob give us the sculpted-house look of current cob >design? What benefit would there be in building with machine-applied cob >rather than rammed earth? Wouldn't you need forms to apply the cob to? hello all, The rammed earth projects seem to require tons of lumber for formworks, lots of big strong guys to run the pneumatic tampers, etc, while I think the "hosed in cob" is more like filling up a formworks, and letting the weight help it settle. In manual RE there is a ton on back breaking tamping going on with a big flat iron thingy ...tedious looking. In the Alternative Sampler video of homes it shows a papercrete mix being hosed into a simple form works...to a certain level, left to set up, then hosed again...lookings interesting to me, slipform pour a house! and to get the finished cob look a nice 2-3" finish plaster can give any effect you'd want, either tinted and colored, lime plaster or traditional cob applied by hand. the jpg below shows a wall with "wild" plaster colors on a strawbale house, using a lime based plaster. http://www.northcoast.com/~tms/colrwall.jpg The house was plastered by Gary and Shahoma of Our Helping Hands in OR...they've designed in tree shapes, free form art, etc, plus the wild color schemes Charmaine R. Taylor Taylor Publishing 1-888-441-1632 More than 300 books for Building & Sustainable living http://www.northcoast.com/~tms Take a Sneak Peek at "Cobwood"at: http://www.northcoast.com/~tms/cobwood.html
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