[Cob] cob and The Code

[joe r dupont]

The point is that regardless of your mixture.. if you make the walls
thick enough and low enough.
how can you go wrong?  I'm sold on yurt type roofs  and if I go cob or
adobe it will be round.. round.. round..
and if i need more space  i add another round building. and have a walk
way .. covered.

god bless becky bee.

god bless ken kern.. and yes Ken Kern Died.. because his structure killed
him..
Sad.. but he was doing what he wanted..  he did some amazing things..
and one day.. guess what we will all be dead.. and what will we have to
say for ourselves if we could write our own
epitaph??  Look at Mike McCaine....with his papercrete..

you don't make advances when you have leaches wanting to control and
charge you.
Hell.. in NJ you can't change and electric water heater without a
permit!!!! Give me a break.
Eventually you won't be able to change an electric bulb without a
permit..

 
On Tue, 01 May 2007 22:14:22 -0700 john fordice <otherfish at comcast.net>
writes:
> To all interested,
> Why make a cob building code?
> 
> Simply put, it's because standard construction dominates and this 
> needs to
> change.  
> 
> In March of 2007 there were appx 1.5 MILLION new houses that 
> started
> construction.  That's 1.5 Millon (1,500,000) buildings being built 
> using the
> "normal" environmentally destructive method of construction.  This 
> is a
> situation that has been going on for far too long and will continue 
> to
> repeat if there is no other possible path to take.   Proprietary 
> materials
> and construction methods based on destructive and wasteful 
> manufacturing and
> fossil fuel consumption are the only option available now.  This has 
> a major
> negative impact on the world in which we live.
> 
> The opening of a pathway to sane construction possible thru the 
> widespread
> use of Cob could effect this.  But there is a MAJOR barrier to this, 
> most
> people live in areas that are subject to building codes.  It doesn't 
> matter
> if you personally like this or not, it IS the state of affairs in 
> North
> America.  Many, many, many people would like to build with cob, but 
> they are
> stopped even befoe they can start by the fact the there is almost no 
> way to
> obtain a building permit for a cob building.  Cob in it's current
> nonrecognized building code status is kept from impacting this 
> horrendous
> situation.  How many cob houses were constructed in the entire last 
> year?  I
> have no idea, but will hazzard a guess that it's less than 100.  
> That's like
> an ineffectual gnat on the butt of this huge dinosaur of standard
> construction.  This is pathetic !!!  We can do better.
> 
> A Cob Building code would change all this.  Making cob legal will 
> make it
> possible for anyone who so desires to be able to build a cob 
> building
> anyplace they want.  It will then be possible for the folks who 
> because of
> their location or , psychic makeup, or whatever their unique 
> circumstances
> ane unable or unwilling to build outside the law.   Outlaw building 
> is an
> option for some people, but not for most.  This is why a cob code is 
> so
> important.  
> 
> Think of it.  If just 1% of housing starts were built with cob, that 
> would
> be 15,000 new cob houses every month.  Much better !!!
> 
> This is also why it is so important, as Carrie points out, to do it 
> right.
> To take chargeof the situation and develope a cob building code that 
> is true
> to cob and the potentials it can give us.
> 
> john fordice  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> on 5/1/07 8:07 PM, paul at dotpaul at paulleblanc.net wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <hms.mommy at juno.com>
> > To: <coblist at deatech.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Cob] cob and The Code
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> On Tue, 1 May 2007 17:56:33 -0400 Damon Howell
> >> <dhowell at pickensprogress.com> writes:
> >>> But it's funny and, of course ridiculous, that as Kindra points
> >>> out the modern codes are requiring some sort of "new research" 
> that
> >>> legitimizes cob as a building material. They've lasted for 
> hundreds
> >>> of years in every climate around the world! What more evidence 
> do
> >>> you  need? Kat's got the best point I think I've ever heard; 
> With every
> >> 
> >>> bad move our freedoms and self values are taken away from us 
> and
> >>> we're allowing it to happen (in fact want it to).>
> >> 
> >> It's very ridiculous to have to have a cob code.  We just have 
> to
> >> convince the people in authority over us that it's okay to let us 
> do what
> >> we want.  I have a friend who insists that he does not recognize 
> anyone's
> >> authority over him, except his church authorities.  That's fine, 
> but when
> >> he sets the cruise control for 100 mph, he gets speeding tickets 
> the same
> >> as the rest of us.
> > 
> > I try not to drive 100.  140 seems to do the trick.
> > 
> > 
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