[Cob] newbie roofing question and one of my own

[Mike Swink]

a two foot overhang in ga will shade the summer sun from the house..
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From: "Amanda Peck" <ap615 at hotmail.com>
To: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Cob] newbie roofing question and one of my own


> Current thinking on wrapping structures with burlap (hessian), chicken
wire
> or some other kind of mesh seems to be to do it only where the dissimilar
> materials meet.  And even then you may get some cracking.  Michael Smith's
> book (Cobber's Companion) has some information on this, probably so do all
> the others, I just haven't looked at them recently.
>
> I'm thinking quite separate poles for my house.  A foot or so outside
sounds
> really nice--not much unsupported OVERHANG, but plenty of protection for
the
> walls--but I'm assured that it's going to be harder to build that way.
(I'm
> open to ideas here!).
>
> ...................
> Andrea asks:
>
> I'm new to the list (have been in lurk mode for a couple of weeks) and I
was
> wondering if anyone had done cob infill walls?  My plan was to buy a shed
> (12 x 15 mtrs) frame and roof and have it put up on a slab then build cob
> walls.  Has any one done this?  Succesfully or otherwise?  Would the
> uprights - square metal poles - have to be wrapped in hessian like a
> strawbale needs when being infilled?
>
>
>
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