Cob: strawbale/cob on the inside

Sun Feb 17 10:22:45 CST 2002

tom wrote
"to adequately protect an 
external earthen plaster from cracking/spalling in the repeated freeze/thaw 
cycles we regularly have at either end of the winter.  Through November, and 
then again for about 7 weeks in early Spring, "

mabey in canada it would be best to use the foam insulation over all the outside walls of an earthen home covered with "drive it" (a man made stuco) like they do on adobe homes in the western states of the USA on the south and west walls to keep the heat gain down from the summer heat (check out adobe at yahoogroups.com ) i know it would really be nice to use an earthen stuco but mabey in your case you might have to fudge a bit 

unclejoe(okla USA)
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tom wrote</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"to adequately protect an <BR>external earthen 
plaster from cracking/spalling in the repeated freeze/thaw <BR>cycles we 
regularly have at either end of the winter.  Through November, and <BR>then 
again for about 7 weeks in early Spring, "</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mabey in canada it would be best to use the foam 
insulation over all the outside walls of an earthen home covered with "drive it" 
(a man made stuco) like they do on adobe homes in the western states of the USA 
on the south and west walls to keep the heat gain down from the summer heat 
(check out <A href="mailto:adobe at yahoogroups.com">adobe at yahoogroups.com</A> ) i 
know it would really be nice to use an earthen stuco but mabey in your case you 
might have to fudge a bit </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unclejoe(okla USA)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>