Cob: strawbale/cob on the inside

[Bill&Julie]

Hidare!  ô¿ô  * smiles*

There ya go,,  And that is the point that I was trying to make months ago
about the heating nullpoint. The location of where you build is of paramount
importance when deciding how/what to build. A person building inside the
artic circle will want to use a different design than if he were to build
in the deserts of Arizona..

 ~¿~  bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ric Allan" <ric at mx5.net>
To: "cob list" <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: Cob: strawbale/cob on the inside


> It was a rhetorical question.
>
> The long and short of it is it would degrade the energy flow (heat sink
> properties) with both side that has the greatest flucuation in energy
supply
> and/or absorbtion leaving the mediation more (comparitively) to that
> generated inside.
>
> In some climates this might be advisable but climate must be taken into
> account.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darel Henman <henman at it.to-be.co.jp>
> To: cob list <coblist at deatech.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Cob: strawbale/cob on the inside
>
>
> >Cob and earthen plasters do this naturally.
> >
> >toswink wrote:
> >>
> >> > But if the thermal mass is insulated from the outside sun, how does
it
> >> pick
> >> > up the energy to re-radiate.....
> >>
> >> Think of inside wall as a heat sink. But then understand it retains
both
> >> cool and warm heat .
> >>  I knew once,but forgot how to make the walls pourous which allowed air
> to
> >> be captured and thus further enhanced the walls ablity to act as a
> sponge.
> >
> >Cob, daub, and earthen and earth/lime plasters do this naturally.
> >
> >Darel
> >
> >
>
>