[Cob] cob in post and beam

[Brad Calvert]

How is cob best tied into a post and beam frame?  I have been thinking of a
sort of mud and stud wall and perhaps having largish nails partly hit into
the sides of the studs, the protruding ends of the nails then embedded into
the cob.


>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.