[Cob] cob floors and recipes

[livin_and_learnin at yahoo.com]

I will greatly appreciate the floor information!  
 
When you give the test results, please help me by relating it to something I can understand.  When I read the books on rammed earth talking about the "dryness" of the dirt to be able to be worked, it was very UN-helpful to the finished product.  I had to scrap hundreds of blocks because they were too dry. (I tried to duplicate their methods of testing.)  What worked best for me after that, was the layman's description of how to tell if the dirt was "dry enough"; when for me the real issue was:  Is is "DAMP" enough!  
 
Beverly
in western Oklahoma, USA
 
 
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> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:40:39 -0800
> From: Janet Standeford <janet.standeford at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Cob] Next step
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> Thank you Bill. My next step is to give more detail on things like cob 
> floor layers and cob recipes plus I need to make some test samples for 
> psi testing, specs on appliances, etc.
> Does anyone here think the following is helpful to our cause? I didn't 
> submit it yet because I don't know if the tests were great or detrimental.
> 
> EARTHBAG HOUSING: STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR AND
> APPLICABILITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
> by
> Bryce Callaghan Daigle
> A thesis submitted to the Department of Civil Engineering
> In conformity with the requirements for
> the degree of Master of Science in Engineering
> Queen?s University
> Kingston, Ontario, Canada
> September, 2008
> Copyright ? Bryce Callaghan Daigle, 2008