Cob Hot water pipes in cob walls?

[mpayson at eskimo.com]

Well, the general concensus is: Asolutely Not!

Makes sense, too, since they would likely spring a leak at some point in their
life. I'm sure that you could make such a system work by carefully designing
your walls, but it's probably not worth the hassle, & no matter how well
designed, there's still a chance of it failing.

Oh, well... It was a nice try.

Mike

mpayson at eskimo.com wrote:

> I'm curious... It seems that an easy way to distribute heat throughout a cob
> house would be to run metal water pipes through the walls, & centrally heat
> the water in a fireplace. Obviously, there are logistical things to be
> considered, but in general, would this work? You'd need a lot of pipe, but
> my main concern would be that the pipe would expand when heated, possibly
> cracking the wall...
>
> I'm just curious if anyone has tried this or anything like it?
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
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