[Cob] Re: cob for profit

[Big Funky Chief]

In regards to cob building for profit....

I'm thinking if anyone wanted to do something like this, it would be in
their best interest to first help the cob community by working towards
getting cob into the building codes......commercial ventures are best done
legally, for your protection and the customer's.

I also feel mortgages are a nasty capitalist form of enslavement.  But
that's probably for another list :)

Scott

>
> hi,
>
> i angered some folks by suggesting that someone engineer a way to make
> sustainable building commercially profitable. my idea was that if it's
good
> for
> the planet, why not make money at it? money is good. (i'm conservative)
>
> detractors felt i had tainted an idea central to cob - that being that by
> doing
> it yourself you can be free of a 30 year mortgage, which i think they
viewed
> as
> being a nasty capitalist form of enslavement.
>
> more power to the folks that have time to do it themselves. more power
still
> if
> you can afford to eat while you build your own place.
>
> meanwhile - cob is still grass roots. if someone out there figures out how
> to make
> mud houses commercially viable - please post. i'll buy stock certificate
> number 1.
>
> good building to you. david
>
>