Cob: Thin walls

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Hello all,
I worked last year with Cob Cottage building a beautifully designed cob home n Mayne Island, BC (Where Cobworks.com is now located).  We built interior walls for a shower (later to be tiled) and pantry that were about 3 - 4 inches thick (from stone foundation on up). The opening to the shower stall was a free-standing arch (using the "corbelling" method), and for the pantry door opening, a 2x4 frame was used.  I was impressed by the strength of these walls, although they were certainly NOT load-bearing.  The walls were about 3-4 feet long, 8 ft high, and attatched on either end to load-bearing cob walls of about 12 inches thick.
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On Mon, 8 May 2000 11:09:00    John Schinnerer wrote:
>Aloha,
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: goshawk at gnat.net [mailto:goshawk at gnat.net]
>
>>...Then (I guess the mud was 
>>really getting to my brain), I wondered  just how thin I could make the
>walls. I'm thinking maybe 3 
>>or 4  inches thick.  
>
>You...crazy?!?  Not a chance... ;-)
>
>Cob Cottage folks have apparently done 3" - 6" thick walls successfully - as
>far as I know they were interior walls, though.  You might check with
>them...you could make 'em that thin, I just don't know how they'd do as
>structural walls if that thin.
>
>John Schinnerer
>


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