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Cob: thanks Darel pipes under floorYun Que yunk88 at hotmail.comTue Jan 28 22:11:25 CST 2003
<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P><BR><BR></P> <DIV> <DIV></DIV> <P><BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <P>Cat here, Thanks Darel, do you know of any spec's out there, what size pipe, how deep a bed for the support and what depth the layers have to be? I'm going to be sinking the whole thing deep enough to go below frost line, Yes??? My first attempt will be an animal shelter about 12'd It is a shelter for cat's so I was planning stepped cob around the perimeter putting the heat into those sounds great!</P> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <P><EM>for the good of all </EM>Cat<BR><BR></P> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>From: Darel Henman <HENMAN at IT.TO-BE.CO.JP> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: Darel Henman <HENMAN at IT.TO-BE.CO.JP> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>To: Yun Que <YUNK88 at HOTMAIL.COM> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>CC: coblist at deatech.com <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Cob: pipes under the floor <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:00:31 +0900 <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>I've seen the pipes embedded in a rammed earthen floor <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>(clay-gravel-sandy soil + lime). Also I know that Koreans in their <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>very cold climates do this as well and have been for probably hundreds <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>of years. At the temperatures you are talking about cob should do <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>well. I'd still tamp it down and under the pipes and knock out all <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>air. People use cob to enclose pipes for heating benches as well. So <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>there is precedence in its viability. <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>Darel <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>Yun Que wrote: <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> >.......... snipped <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> > The sand bed <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> > was a little scary too since it will have to be very compact and level <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> > for the block, ....... <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> > Any thoughts maybe cob all around and forget the <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> > sand and use a level and get it right?? ... <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Add photos to your messages with <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMQENUS/2749">MSN 8. </a> Get 2 months FREE*.</html>
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