Cob: New earth oven page

[Julianne Wilson]

Dear Amanda - what a wonderful reminder -- I am going to walk up to my house
from my office in a little while beaming out love to it!!
Thank you!!
Julianne

on 10/1/02 7:12 PM, Amanda Peck at ap615 at hotmail.com wrote:

> I tend to agree with you on pure cob (I'm retired, living alone, in a travel
> trailer), but I think that some of the hybrid houses may be within my reach.
> Block plus strawbale plus cob.  Stone plus rammed earth blocks plus a bit
> of papercrete or light clay.  Don't give up.  The best advice I've heard is
> to appreciate what you've got, that hating it just puts the desired
> conclusion farther off--if only by making mistakes more likely.
> 
> Julianne Wilson wrote ( I snipped)
> 
> though I have to confess that just in reading it I realize that doing an
> entire house from cob is WAY beyond my time, patience, willingness.....at
> least not alone (with assist from my 12 year old daughter) --I think it's
> becoming one of those things that I love the idea of more than the reality!
> 
> maybe it's just that I'm out of energy and patience with the leaking roof
> and softening floors and metal walls of the place I'm in now - and feeling
> rather stuck here.......and in need of a "quicker" solution than building a
> cobhouse ---
> 
> 
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