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[Cob] Cob House Fire

Robert Alcock ralcock at euskalnet.net
Fri Mar 12 10:19:23 CST 2010


There's a good reason why most of the medieval houses in Britain still 
inhabited today are made of cob... Because house fires were common 
historically, and the wooden houses burnt to the ground.

Robert
www.abrazohouse.org
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> From: Damon Howell <dhowell at pickensprogress.com>
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> Look on the bright side about the fire, the walls didn't burn! That's  
> no hit against cob, because if it was a stick built home the whole  
> thing would have been destroyed.
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> Damon, North GA
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