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Cob: Using Bricks While Building With CobKim West kwest at arkansas.netThu Dec 5 22:30:43 CST 2002
Hi Linda. I'm building in south Arkansas. I believe that cob is cheaper than strawbale, but of course I may be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time! LOL! Building with cob, and recycling everything possible from our present place, all I have to buy is the straw, the wood, and the shingles. Everything to make the cob is in abundance right under my feet, including water coming from a spring. So far I have figured it will cost me nearly $1600 in wood. That is using treated wood which I'd really rather not use, but I do want this place to last as long as possible. As I said, I had to "come down a thousand" when I realized the cost of having to buy materials. At this point in time I have come down to a 16'X16' interior with a second story. This would give my children and me 512 sf of living space, which is almost half what we have now, but will be a much better home for us. Right now I am sitting here freezing my tail off cause the Thermogas man refuses to take a postdated check [postdated for 7 days] for some butane/propane. What is so ironic about this is that out in my shed I have a wood stove that, if I did not live in a mobile home, I could be using to cook and heat this place at this very moment. I refuse to set it up in a mobile home because it is not a saf thing to do. I figure we would fare better in the cold than in a fire, eh? LOL! Oh well, the wood stove WILL do it's thing once again once we get our new place up! Thanks again Linda. Kim Linda wrote: Where are you building? Is Cob cheaper than strawbale? I have been told that cob is more labor intensive than strawbale and it takes longer. About how much is a foundation? Tks. Linda -------------- next part -------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2719.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Linda. I'm building in south Arkansas. I believe that cob is cheaper than strawbale, but of course I may be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time! LOL! Building with cob, and recycling everything possible from our present place, all I have to buy is the straw, the wood, and the shingles. Everything to make the cob is in abundance right under my feet, including water coming from a spring. So far I have figured it will cost me nearly $1600 in wood. That is using treated wood which I'd really rather not use, but I do want this place to last as long as possible. As I said, I had to "come down a thousand" when I realized the cost of having to buy materials. At this point in time I have come down to a 16'X16' interior with a second story. This would give my children and me 512 sf of living space, which is almost half what we have now, but will be a much better home for us. Right now I am sitting here freezing my tail off cause the Thermogas man refuses to take a postdated check [postdated for 7 days] for some butane/propane. What is so ironic about this is that out in my shed I have a wood stove that, if I did not live in a mobile home, I could be using to cook and heat this place at this very moment. I refuse to set it up in a mobile home because it is not a saf thing to do. I figure we would fare better in the cold than in a fire, eh? LOL! Oh well, the wood stove WILL do it's thing once again once we get our new place up!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks again Linda.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kim</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linda wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Where are you building? Is Cob cheaper than<BR>strawbale? I have been told <BR>that cob is more labor intensive than strawbale and<BR>it takes longer. About <BR>how much is a foundation?<BR>Tks.<BR>Linda<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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