Cob: finishing projects, truths about owner-builders

[Amanda Peck]

OK, I'm NOT delighted when they start with "Oh, wow, free house."   But I do 
think that that prospect is what hooks people in the United States into cob, 
straw bale, rammed earth and so on.

I am delighted when they go through the process that I believe that everyone 
must go through to get the house that suits them best.  It does involve a 
fair amount of planning, thinking and soul-searching.

I am also not delighted when someone goes  "Oh, this is too hard, we'll just 
put up a stick-built 2x4 place." Especially when he is someone who pointed 
me to lime as a wonderful building material.  Of course my little log 
building IS what I would call a "lemonade building."  There were lots of 
logs around, so we used them.  As "when life hands you lemons, make 
lemonade."

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Darel commented on:
>I'm delighted to see people on this list start with "Oh, wow, free house" 
>then go through the soul-searching, the planning and the building.

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