Cob: New earth oven page

[Amanda Peck]

I tend to agree with you on pure cob (I'm retired, living alone, in a travel 
trailer), but I think that some of the hybrid houses may be within my reach. 
  Block plus strawbale plus cob.  Stone plus rammed earth blocks plus a bit 
of papercrete or light clay.  Don't give up.  The best advice I've heard is 
to appreciate what you've got, that hating it just puts the desired 
conclusion farther off--if only by making mistakes more likely.

Julianne Wilson wrote ( I snipped)

though I have to confess that just in reading it I realize that doing an 
entire house from cob is WAY beyond my time, patience, willingness.....at 
least not alone (with assist from my 12 year old daughter) --I think it's 
becoming one of those things that I love the idea of more than the reality!

maybe it's just that I'm out of energy and patience with the leaking roof 
and softening floors and metal walls of the place I'm in now - and feeling 
rather stuck here.......and in need of a "quicker" solution than building a 
cobhouse ---


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