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Cob: New to this list and the idea of cobSharon whitewolf1316 at home.comMon Dec 3 12:37:40 CST 2001
Hi everyone, I am very interested in this idea of cob building and am a newbie to this site, so please bare with me. I do live in Minnesota, which I see from several postings, is not a very cob friendly area. I have tried to scan the last 6 years of the archives, but it takes a long time to read all those postings!!(although I am working on it!) My question is, has anyone ever tried building a cob house with the solid foam insulation in the walls of the cob home? If so, how well does it work? I thought of your idea of strawbale with cob on the inside and stucco on the outside, but think the walls will be too thick and it would cost a lot more to put up the post and beam system to support the sb structure. Any help for a cold Minnasotan would be greatly appreciated! Also, I see a lot of great pictures of your finished cob houses, but no one ever shows a pic of the floor plans. I see rooms in many pic's that I would like to use, but have no idea as to where to start in the visualizing process of the planning of a cob home. I realize I will have to take a class this coming summer which will help me understand the building process, but with an idea this exciting, I would like to start planing what I would like my house to look like. If you have just a small pic, even hand drawn, of what your cob house looks like I would love to see your ideas. Thank you all for your help and support! Sharon Cox -------------- next part -------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4807.2300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2>Hi everyone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2>I am very interested in this idea of cob building and am a newbie to this site, so please bare with me. I do live in Minnesota, which I see from several postings, is not a very cob friendly area. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2> I have tried to scan the last 6 years of the archives, but it takes a long time to read all those postings!!(although I am working on it!) </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2> My question is, has anyone ever tried building a cob house with the solid foam insulation in the walls of the cob home? If so, how well does it work? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2> I thought of your idea of strawbale with cob on the inside and stucco on the outside, but think the walls will be too thick and it would cost a lot more to put up the post and beam system to support the sb structure.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2>Any help for a cold Minnasotan would be greatly appreciated!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2>Also, I see a lot of great pictures of your finished cob houses, but no one ever shows a pic of the floor plans. I see rooms in many pic's that I would like to use, but have no idea as to where to start in the visualizing process of the planning of a cob home. I realize I will have to take a class this coming summer which will help me understand the building process, but with an idea this exciting, I would like to start planing what I would like my house to look like. If you have just a small pic, even hand drawn, of what your cob house looks like I would love to see your ideas.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2>Thank you all for your help and support!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2>Sharon Cox</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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