Cob:do a wood shake roof

[Charmaine R Taylor]

Why not just use a simple wooden shake shed  style roof?  Here in N CA you
can get recycled one, thick butt-cut..2" thick in spots, and make a roof?

I believe Ianto's cob garden wall has a simple 2-3 shakes per side tent
-like (gable) roof.

A cob bench I am building with a friend up in Hayfork CA ( very hot dry,
but wet winters) is having  end poles cobbed in to the bench sides, and a
slanted shed style  roof covering of the old shakes.  Most of these shakes
were torn off a local college roof and there are millions of them very
cheap.  there must be some like that near you?  if not I can give the
number to the wonder woman who took it upon herself to keep all those
shakes from 50000 sq ft of roof from going to the landfill!

Ms. Charmaine  Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
http://www.papercrete.com
PO Box 375, Cutten CA 95534
books at dirtcheapbuilder.com
707-441-1632

>
> From: David Kammer [mailto:david_j_kammer at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:56 PM
> To: coblist at deatech.com
> Subject: Cob: sacrilege
>
> Hi All,
> I'm working with a local p-patch (community garden)
> that is very interested in having a few cob benches
> built.  Unfortunately, due to some draconian city
> codes, and some semi-draconian city inspectors, the
> group is very nervous about putting up roofing
> structures over the benches.  Is there any ways of
> finishing off a bench so that it doesn't require a
> roof? The group has said that they are willing to look
> at, if necessary, (and here comes the sacrilege)
> un-natural compounds?  Ideally I would like to do the
> whole project with a clean and clear conscious and
> building ethic, but I would rather see the benches
> built of cob with some kind of an evil coating than
> see them built from entirely evil things like PTL.
> Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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