Cob: Re: Cob

[John Russell]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:31:43 +0900, you wrote:

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>I've not yet seen much written about what goes wrong with cob and how
>repairs and maintenance should or could be performed.
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During the 20th century a lot of repair work was done on cob buildings
using conventional plasters, cements and concretes which has led to
various problems in these buildings. There are now companies, mainly
in SW England, that specialise in cob repairs. A good source of
information is to use a UK specific search engine like www.lycos.co.uk
with something like       cob repairs       as a search parameter.
	Turns up quite a few interesting links with photos of cob
block stitching and a company that sells cob bricks for 60p each
(about a dollar). Hmmm, that's 3 times the price of ordinary bricks,
now where did I put my shovel   ;-)


	John.