[Cob] a cob bathtub

[Karin]

I am currently taking out a cob bathtub. It was sealed with hemp oil cut
with varying amounts of citrus oil, there was also cilium seed added. It was
a grand experiment and was used for about three years and continued to work
OK. It held water well except that it leaks around the drain. We couldn't
find a way to seal the drain to the cob. If the water was siphoned out
rather than ran through conventional plumbing there wouldn't have been a
problem. I am currently hacking it out. It is a massive thing. Like I keep
hearing, you need to experiment experiment and experiment.
Karin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Peck" <ap615 at hotmail.com>
To: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:06 AM
Subject: RE: [Cob] a cob bathtub


>
> There's been at least one--a friend of Charmaine Taylor--although she may
> have used hemp oil, don't know if we ever got pictures or complete
details.
>
> Some of the others have turned out to be rumors.  Or made with a fairly
high
> percentage of concrete or asphalt emulsion--aka "stabilized earth".
Nothing
> particularly wrong with that under the circumstances, mind you.
>
> Gernot Minke has a sink in his house--written up in a past issue of
Natural
> Home.  Again, don't know if it was stabilized earth or not.
>
> In the interests of lower maintenance, I may go with used cast iron.
> There's a place that seems to refinish them up in the next county.
> ..................
> Lucynda wrote:
>
> Didn't somebody here say they had made a cob bathtub covered in boiled
> linseed oil and that it worked very well.  i would like to try ths in my
> place but I'mhaving a hard time convincing my husband.  Does this person
> have a picture of it?
>
>
>
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