Cob: Horse hair/pig hair - condensate in a cob lined steel building??.

Sat 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

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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>
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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>
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