Cob: Cob questions

[Carla Scott-Mason]

Hi All, 

I'm interested in the same questions as Jennifer, so please post answers to
the list, okay?

Carla

jennifer duran wrote:
> 
> Hi folks!
> My name is Jennifer Duran and I have heard about cob about a year and a half
> ago.  Immediately I went out and bought "The Cob Builders Handbook" by Becky
> Bee. I read all of it in one day and enjoyed the concept immensely. Here's
> why I am writing you all: I am about to graduate in December from college. I
> am 23 years old. I am currently living in an apartment, and I hate to think
> of how much money I am spending on rent that I will never see again. I guess
> I have realized for a while now that I would like to build cob, but haven't
> really thought about it seriously. I allowed the thought the thought to pass
> through my mind about buying a new home, but besides the fact that the
> market in Austin is crazy, I just don't see myself doing that. I want to
> begin building my cob home in about a year. I need to save up money and find
> a place to build and do more research. How do I start? What do I do first?
> 1. How much money should I have to start this project?
> 2. How long do you think it will take? (I know this question is hard to
> answer because it probably depends on how much time you put into it).
> 3. Is Austin a good place to build? It tends to be humid here, but not too
> much.
> I would appreciate ANY responses to my quite muddled plea.
> THanks,
> jenn
> 
> >From: "Adam Holmes" <holmesiow at hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: "Adam Holmes" <holmesiow at hotmail.com>
> >To: Coblist at deatech.com
> >Subject: Cob: skills of the west
> >Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 02:04:18 GMT
> >
> >    Cob can consume most of our time quite happily.
> >
> >My brother and I are travelling down from Portland OR  to California until
> >early Dec to learn further;  scribe, raising - hand?, hand cutting axes
> >etc,
> >trig/goemetry use, cob walling, bamboo, cleaving, frame and joint
> >engineering, log scribe.  Can camp and usually work for learning with a
> >little travel money thrown in, work hard, fell free to ask.
> >Canoe building to be learnt.
> >Adam and Simon holmes.
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