Cob: steel reinforcement

[Patrick Newberry]

No I've not heard, as far as I know it's still doing fine after a maybe 10 years. 
I'll ask next time I see him.

Pat 

-----Original Message-----
From: Amanda Peck [mailto:ap615 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:46 PM
To: coblist at deatech.com
Subject: RE: Cob: steel reinforcement



Any idea how the dome has held up?  (was there something like this that had 
to be torn down, with great difficulty?)
.............
Pat wrote:
My brother-in-law once was doing a cob dome, in a very arrid area.
He decided to use some rebar, but the mud did not stick to the rebar very 
good.
He then would coat the rebar in cement, which stick quite well to the rebar. 
Let it dry,
then use the mud. He never used it in the walls, only in one overhead dome 
section.

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