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[Cob] Salty cob?dirtcheapbuilder-Charmaine Taylor tms at northcoast.comThu Jul 28 20:18:52 CDT 2005
I will also mention that Michael Smith and community used beach sand in their cob too.. and it seems to be fine..they used what they had, so it worked for the walls they built. theirs was stream sand, and had no salt if I recall correctly Charmaine Taylor Publishing www.paperartists.com PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534 USA 707-441-1632 www.dirtcheapbuilder.com www.papercrete.com On Jul 28, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Raduazo at aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 7/28/2005 11:18:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, > james at thelongwayhome.net writes: > > 3) Mixing cob with beach sand > > > > James: I experimented with using white beach sand as a plaster, and as > a > floor surfacing material. I wanted to get a brighter color surface. I > could not > tell any difference in color or strength. > Ed > >
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