Jill, > Jill hotmail wrote: > > Granted, we all want to build our own house so these are a bit beyond > what we would do ourselves, BUT look at these photos of what can be > done. This pise (called pise before the word cob).... PISE is an abbreviation of "pneumatically installed stabilized earth", and is not a word that predates cob or adobe. Anyone can use it if you have the equipment. This might be the barrier. Darel