Cob: building codes

[Louis]

Generally speaking, areas of low population density and/or low income, are 
the ones with minimum codes.  In other words, the places where no one wants 
to live!  Charmaine was compiling a list of such places and she'll probably 
pipe up soon.  But you've got to recognize these things are always 
changing--usually for the worse.

People on this list have said in the past, that the cob houses that have 
survived  in England, tend to have massively thick walls, from 3-6 feet 
thick?  No one knows, how many other cob houses have just crumbled away 
over the centuries.  Many have a fairly high plinth--the stone base.  Of 
the pictures on the web I've seen, I haven't noticed any plinths--in modern 
cob houses.  I know I would certainly want one, to prevent the base from 
eroding away.
--Louis


>  My foremost puzzlement ,at this point. finding a place that would even let
>us build a cob home. I don't have anything  especially artistic in mind. I
>would love to have a cob home along the style of those built in England  a
>couple of centruies ago.
>  I did a web search for places in the US with no building codes but keep
>coming up " File not found" .Any siggestions whrere I might find this or a
>list of places in the US that allows cob buildings?
>Thanks
>nigella