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[Cob] walls are done!Elizabeth Evans vesperlight at gmail.comTue May 25 13:29:56 CDT 2010
Congratulations! Huge project indeed. The blog looks like really thorough documentation -- I bookmarked it for future reading. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Tys Sniffen <tys at ideamountain.com> wrote: > Woo whoo! We finished our walls today. still have to do all the plastering > and floor finish, and electrical, and, and… but, as of today, the cobbing > of > the walls are done. > > > > Huge project. House is maybe 1100 sq ft, with 130 linear feet of cob > exterior wall, maybe 50 linear feet of interior (6”) walls. The peaks of > the house are high, one side is 14 ft high, the other is 12. > > > > Our batches of cob were 4 5gal buckets of sand, about ½ of clay. I > estimate > that each batch weighed when mixed up, about 230lb. about 65 ‘cobs’ per > batch. We did 452 batches. Started June 1 of last year, finished today. > didn’t cob every day, and lived life, gardened, did other carpentry parts > of > the house, but, mostly, cobbed. Whole blog at www.ideamountain.com > <http://www.ideamountain.com/> > > > > Popping champagne now. > > Tys > > _______________________________________________ > Coblist mailing list > Coblist at deatech.com > http://www.deatech.com/mailman/listinfo/coblist >
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