[Cob] Building Choice

[phil]

There is nothing that says you have to build your house using only one method. Strawbale and cob can go together very well and it should be noted that you can always add natural building options to your home, whether it is traditional built or not.

Phil Hawn
President, North Carolina Natural Building Coalition
naturalbuilder.org



 --- On Wed 09/17, Shannan Brent < skbrent at cox-internet.com > wrote:
From: Shannan Brent [mailto: skbrent at cox-internet.com]
To: coblist at deatech.com
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:54:24 -0500
Subject: [Cob] Building Choice

Hi, I'm new to the list and new to natural building.  I am researching<br>building a house in Leander, Texas (just northwest of Austin).  I really<br>like the idea of cob and the freedom in form and creativity it offers but in<br>my reading so far it seems like maybe straw bale is more practical for<br>the weather here.  We don't have wide swings in temperature between day and<br>night...hot during the day, warm at night in the summer.  There aren't very<br>many months out of the year when it actually cold here and even then we<br>don't get many nights that fall much below freezing.  Has anyone had<br>experience with a cob house in this environment?  I want something that will<br>help keep the house cool when the high is 105 and it's still 85 at midnight.<br>I was considering a combination of straw bale walls with cob around doors<br>and windows or something.<br><br>Also, has anyone had experience with getting permits in small, redneck towns<br>for alternate building methods?  What kind of battle can I expect?  I am<br>outside the city limits but inside their ETJ.<br><br>Thanks.<br>Shannan<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Coblist mailing list<br>Coblist at deatech.com<br>http://www.deatech.com/mailman/listinfo/coblist<br>

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