[Cob] extending drainage and rubble trench

[Mary Lou McFarland]

I watched your complete  "year of mud" slideshow..... very nice!  I am assuming that the large window and the door both face south.  Have you considered bypassing this whole problem and making a little greenhouse entrance.  It would help out your solar gain in the winter.  It would be light enough you could just get some really weather resistant wood like hedge as your foundation piece instead of trenching.  Plexi is kind of expensive right now but maybe you could recycle some glass... though plexi would be safer in a mud room situation.  In the summer you might want to trellis some zucchini over it or something to keep it cool.  the main thing is that it would keep your drainage and foundation intact.  I'm a firm believer in K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid).
Mary Lou 		 	   		  
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