Fwd: Cob: Cob Oven

[Meagan McAleese]

This oddly enough came to me by mistake.


>From: "Ryan Zwahr" <rzwahr at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Ryan Zwahr" <rzwahr at yahoo.com>
>To: <coblist at deatech.com>
>Subject: Cob: Cob Oven
>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:12:33 -0400
>
>Hi,
>I am planning on building a cob oven in my back yard, using Kiko Denzer's
>book.  I am totally new to this and I don't know much about it, so bear 
>with
>me.  My first question is, how will the oven stand up to the weather?  Do I
>need to build a little roof over it to prevent the rain from washing it
>away?  The other thing is, is there any kind of whitewashed plaster or
>something I could put on the outside of the oven to make it look more
>appealing?  Can you do that on these ovens since they get so hot (can the
>plaster take it)?
>
>What kind of plaster do you use for cob structures in general, for example
>if you wanted to make a little garden wall and make it like a different
>color than the natural cob color?
>
>Does anyone know of any cob workshops in North Carolina?  I live in the
>Raleigh area.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Ryan
>
>




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Reply-To: "Meagan McAleese" <useful_fish at hotmail.com>

Hello,
There have been a couple people talking about cob in Alberta, Canada (which 
I've found very intereting) but does anyone know of any cobbing that has 
been successful up here??
PS: We got snow again today-may15th.
Meagan



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