Cob: Baked Houses

[louis]

I think the ceramic house is one those ideas that's undeveloped, and may
never be practical [IMO].  Firing bricks using a big solar collector such
as the one near Barstow, CA seems more workable to me.

The earth bags/tubes aren't intended to be heated.  It would compromise the
integrity of the structure, I'd think.  The tubes he sells looks like
polyproplene to me.   Pretty nasty if heated.

Khalili's latest project is a strawbale dome.  So far he's got the 5/8"
rebar skeleton up.

--L.

Rosemary Lyndall Wemm wrote:
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>Can anyone tell me how "ceramic" houses are made? From what I have 
>been able to find so far, I get the impression that they were baked 
>like some kind of iced mud pudding. 
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>How is the house heated up sufficiently?  Does the baking water-proof 
>them of itself, or does this require glazing?  What is the glazing made 
>of?  
>
>I can understand how this might work for mud brick houses.  But what 
>about the sacks in super-adobe houses?  What about the straw in cob 
>houses?  
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>- Rosemary
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