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Cob: greenhouse startstorm storm at ctelco.netMon Jun 11 21:06:48 CDT 2001
We broke ground on a ramada/greenhouse recently. The greenhouse will be about 10'x18' (3x5m) curvilinear with an extensive shaded courtyard (ramada?) connecting it to the woodshop. We dug a 'foundation' about 6 inches (15 cm) deep for the base of the walls and have all but finished the rock walls using cob for mortar, about two feet high and the cob will go up from there. Going to build a "hollow cob" wall, actually making two parallel walls about 6 inches thick (15cm) with a 2-4 inch (7 cm) space between. We're choosing this on our east, west and north walls instead of strawbales. Connecting the two often with sticks. Those sticks will protrude out in places to make shelf brackets for drying racks, shaded under the roof line. We are using a large cement mixer to see just how fast it can go. So far our expectations have been exceeded-- speed wise. Everyone's invited to come see! 275 Cottonwood St./ Crestone, Co. Steve and Anikke Storm -------------- next part -------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff><FONT face=Arial size=2>We broke ground on a ramada/greenhouse recently. The greenhouse will be about 10'x18' (3x5m) curvilinear with an extensive shaded courtyard (ramada?) connecting it to the woodshop. We dug a 'foundation' about 6 inches (15 cm) deep for the base of the walls and have all but finished the rock walls using cob for mortar, about two feet high and the cob will go up from there. Going to build a "hollow cob" wall, actually making two parallel walls about 6 inches thick (15cm) with a 2-4 inch (7 cm) space between. We're choosing this on our east, west and north walls instead of strawbales. Connecting the two often with sticks. Those sticks will protrude out in places to make shelf brackets for drying racks, shaded under the roof line. We are using a large cement mixer to see just how fast it can go. So far our expectations have been exceeded-- speed wise. Everyone's invited to come see! 275 Cottonwood St./ Crestone, Co. Steve and Anikke Storm </FONT></BODY></HTML>
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