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Cob: Horse hair/pig hair - condensate in a cob lined steel building??.JanetinTenn at aol.com JanetinTenn at aol.comSat Mar 29 15:06:28 CST 2003
Hello Cobbers, I have a house here in Nashville that I remodeled 5 years ago. When taking down the interior walls I noticed kazillions of coarse hairs about an inch and a half long in the mortar between the woodn slats. I asked around and found out that they were pig hairs gotten from a local slaughter house. The house is about 80 years old and that mortar was very rotten and crumbly, seemed like it had a lot of sand in it. Now to my question... I have decided to buy a steel building and have it erected over a concrete slab. I do not have the time, energy, or help to do the earthern floor, but once the building is up, I can take my time to finish the interior as I like. Im wondereing about putting up cob walls as an insulative, interior wall system. Anyone have any thoughts, or opinions? Any devil's advocates out there? All feed back is welcome. thanx, janet -------------- next part -------------- <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hello Cobbers,<BR> I have a house here in Nashville that I remodeled 5 years ago. When taking down the interior walls I noticed kazillions of coarse hairs about an inch and a half long in the mortar between the woodn slats. I asked around and found out that they were pig hairs gotten from a local slaughter house. The house is about 80 years old and that mortar was very rotten and crumbly, seemed like it had a lot of sand in it. <BR> <BR> Now to my question... I have decided to buy a steel building and have it erected over a concrete slab. I do not have the time, energy, or help to do the earthern floor, but once the building is up, I can take my time to finish the interior as I like. Im wondereing about putting up cob walls as an insulative, interior wall system. Anyone have any thoughts, or opinions? Any devil's advocates out there? All feed back is welcome. thanx, janet<BR> <BR> </FONT></HTML>
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