Cob: Thin walls

[John Schinnerer]

Aloha,

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From: goshawk at gnat.net [mailto:goshawk at gnat.net]

>...Then (I guess the mud was 
>really getting to my brain), I wondered  just how thin I could make the
walls. I'm thinking maybe 3 
>or 4  inches thick.  

You...crazy?!?  Not a chance... ;-)

Cob Cottage folks have apparently done 3" - 6" thick walls successfully - as
far as I know they were interior walls, though.  You might check with
them...you could make 'em that thin, I just don't know how they'd do as
structural walls if that thin.

John Schinnerer