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[Cob] bad idea/good idea??Amanda Peck ap615 at hotmail.comTue May 31 07:37:13 CDT 2005
Don't know. Eons ago, when I first got interested in Straw Bale, I saw a notice for a bale-raising somewhere in New Mexico, to wrap a single-wide trailer in bales. Not quite sure how they were going to start the project. It's pretty common around here to put a free-standing roof over a single-wide. I assume that's what they would have done there. Seems like somewhere recently I've seen pictures of some sort of wrapping (bale I think) on a building. Not sure where--either the building was located or it was published--or what they did. But I remember some discussion of where the windows ended up--towards the outside of the bale, IIRC. Tying them together will work only if you are absolutely sure that the bale wall won't move--either from the bales settling or frost heave or an earthquake. ................... Copper Harding wrote: I hope everyone is out in the dirt enjoying their summer cobbing projects!! Myself, well, I got into a "discussion" with a friend about doing a strawbale wrap around the north side of a building. I am curious if you build your stemwall only wide enough for the cob (load bearing part of the building)... Would it be possible AFTER you finished the building to build an on-grade stemwall outside of the cob wall and place a strawbale wrap on top of it? Would you need to tie it into the cob somehow? I'm assuming regular exterior finished of the strawbale to look similar to the cob. Would you need to tie in the stemwall "addition" to the old stemwall (somehow, somewhere :) I'd love to get feedback on this as I thought it was an intruiging idea... Thank you, Copper _________________________ Ms. Copper Harding If you can walk, you can dance If you can talk, you can sing --- from Zimbabwe When you're out of balance gravity tends to get you down. -L.L. Harding P.O. Box 125 Hawley, MN 56549 www.copperharding.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _______________________________________________ Coblist mailing list Coblist at deatech.com http://www.deatech.com/mailman/listinfo/coblist
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