[Cob] Mendo project this summer

[Amanda Peck]

Aha!

I had wondered if the posts holding up the roof could be a foot and a half 
outside my building, giving me a nice overhang outside the (straw bale in a 
story-and-a-half) wall.  The man who was going to help me build couldn't 
quite explain why, but said things like, "not if I'm working on it."

This is probably at least part of the answer.  It still sounds like a nice 
idea for a finished building, if not going up.
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Otherfish (John Fordice) wrote:
By the way, in a post and beam structure with cob it is CRITICAL that you
tie your cob into the building frame if you do the cob as infill.  Cob needs
to be either an integral load bearing system, or if it's done as infill the
cob needs to be restrained at the ends & top of the wall by the building
frame.  This is in order to achieve seismic stability of the infill cob wall
sections.

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