Cob: finishing projects, truths about owner-builders

[Taylor Publishing-DirtCheapBuilder]

AManda said:   Pretty good at researching, fair at planning and buying 
stuff, terrible at following through on my lists--even worse at getting 
down there and doing stuff. ...They're still not what they would call 
"finished."  And I'm seeing bad decisions made by people who are getting 
in a hurry to move in, cheaping out on materials, rushing the planning 
process with the result that they are constantly changing their minds 
about what they need to do--and strangely enough this results in 
postponing the day they get to move in
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Great topic----finishing projects is a critcal point for any type of 
building, or renovation.

the best short article I've read was in FHB mag, a woman and her family 
built a house, and 10 years later they still had a cobbled together 
plywood bedroom door...because they wanted a  door custom  made with 
their own hands, etc etc...well,  she said that had she known 10 years 
would go by she would have settled for an off-the -shelf ordinary door!

So pick your battles..changing one's mind is also a sticking point..I 
get  good salvage, have a plan for it, then get OTHER good recycled 
stuff, and then go into a tailspin on which to use, best use of all of 
it,  etc. I got piles...and more piles, and drums and drums of 
clay...waiting.

Oh yeah, and get using to living in a "junkyard"...storing and managing 
clay, dirt,  bags of lime, wood, windows, cool  free stuff, etc it all 
piles up as you gather for your building...even tools need a place to go...


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