Cob: Re: RE: good foundations

[Wendy Smyer Yu]

Reading this conversation on foundations I realize that I know absolutely 
nothing about foundations - not even the vocabulary.  Would you folks who 
have experience (or at least knowledge) about building foundations be able 
to recommend some books or resrources to begin learning about them?

Thanks!

Wendy
(I'll send out China photos in the next day or two to those of you who 
responded in the positive - so as not to clog up the list)






>From: "Bill&Julie" <wbates at mn.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Bill&Julie" <wbates at mn.rr.com>
>To: "Cob List" <coblist at deatech.com>
>Subject: Cob: Re: RE: good foundations
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 06:49:21 -0500
>
>Hello... Michael,,,,,, The tensile strength I refer to is being pulled
>apart.
>If the support were to be removed from part of the wall.. The weight
>of the wall would shear, and that part of the wall would also subside..
>.If that part of the wall supports a roof beam.........  OOPS..  bill
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Fitzgerald" <puppetman at ix.netcom.com>
>To: "coblist" <coblist at deatech.com>
>Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:40 PM
>Subject: Cob: RE: good foundations
>
>
> >
> >
> > Thanx Mike, Bill, Amanda, and Marlin:
> >
> > I sure do appreciate your sharing with me some of your experience.
> >
> > My books still have not arrived and I am trying to content myself with 
>web
> > surfing and riffling the cob archives.
> >
> > Does anybody know if using cement in pressed earth blocks allows you to
>use
> > them below grade such as in a foundation? What about rammed tires? Will
>the
> > rubber protect the earth from breaking down and keep the rammed earth
> > rammed?  What makes compressed earth uncompress when it's below grade?
> >
> > Bill you mention tensile strength of a cob wall. Does this mean that a
>wall
> > failure in a freestanding garden wall would likely be cracking. or would
>the
> > wall fall over taking the rest of it with it? It seems to me that poor
> > tensile strength would likely keep damage due to frost heaving 
>localized.
> >
> > Thanx again;
> > Michael Fitzgerald
> > Anthropologist/Woodcarver/Puppetmaker
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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