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[Cob] MixDorothy Cordochorea dcordochorea at gmail.comMon Jul 19 13:16:18 CDT 2010
My sympathies on living in an RV. My husband and I and our large deerhound lived in a 21' RV from the time that we sold our home last September until Lee (my husband) exploded in April. We are now in a cheap, very modest rental duplex until we can get a permited dwelling on our property. Washington County does not permit living in an RV even temporarily on one's own land, except for medical hardship. And they do not permit a tent to be erected on one's own land for more than 10 days out of 30. (It's *so *wonderful to live in a "free" country!) Dorothy On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Janet Standeford < janet.standeford at gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome, Dorothy. > > I think what everyone forgets is I have sandy clay. There is some R and U > value to that alone, then add the straw and I use plenty of that. Then of > course, there is the inner and exterior earth plaster and the lime plaster. > All together the U and R Values were enough to satisfy the County so far. I > have to use quite a bit of roof insulation though as well as insulating the > foundation. > > The Ace is the baffled fireplace and the small overall space. A baffled cob > fireplace will continue to throw heat into the room for hours after the fire > goes out. This will essentially heat the walls as well since the fireplace > is a continuation of the walls. (The damper will be fitted so it can > completely seal off the chimney after the burn and the optional glass front > will seal as well to force the heat to accumulate in the walls and baffled > areas of the fireplace.) This fireplace should take two armloads of wood a > day. Possibly three on the coldest days. > > I am tossing around the idea of pipes in the flooring to heat in the > fireplace as well. > > The County is rather interested in my fireplace design and were thrilled to > hear about the glass front and at the time, the smoke shelf. Now they will > be extra thrilled with the baffles. > > I'm sure that my 330 square feet will stay nice and warm. Anyway they are > making me put in at least one electric, thermostatically controlled heater. > > Oddly enough, I do not want to build a straw bale house! I want to build a > cob house! > lol > > This is why I am making the walls so thick. It is doable. > > I'm currently in an RV. Don't you think three foot thick walls will be much > warmer than this? lolol > > Besides I can't stand it when it's 70 degrees inside. I like the cooler > temps. > > > > Janet Standeford ORwww.buildingnaturally.info (Owned by you) > A resource for healthy homes. > > > > On 7/18/2010 9:40 PM, Dorothy Cordochorea wrote: > > Thank you, Janet! > > I would be interested in the codes your county is using. Do you know > whether they are specific codes for your county, or codes from somewhere > else that your county is using? > > "Unstabilized adobe"... interesting... > > At 4850 feet altitude, and especially on the *north *side of a summit, you > will have a lot of cold, and not very good passive solar warming. How do > you plan to heat those thick walls? I'd be afraid that three feet thick cob > under those circumstances would take a good deal to warm up. Of course, > once it is warm, there's a lot of mass to hold the heat. Still, there will > be quite a heat differential between the inside and the outside in the > winter where you will be building, I would think. > > I am glad to hear that the folks that you are dealing with in Klamath > County will substitute thermal mass for insulation. They aren't the same > thing, of course, but it does suggest greater flexibility on their part than > I've feared we will have to deal with. > > Thanks again for sharing your experiences with your county and engineer. > > >
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