[Cob] freezing and cob

[phil]

I don't have the experience to back this up but I imagine that frozen cob would react the same way that frozen earth would. It would heave when frozen and then as it thawed out turn to mush and then powder. I can't think of a simple way to protect your building site from freezing.


Phil Hawn, President
The North Carolina Natural Building Coalition
http://naturalbuilder.org
cob, strawbale, cordwood and other sustainable earthbuilding techniques

 --- On Thu 12/11, Juan Moleon < tozecindustries at hotmail.com > wrote:
From: Juan Moleon [mailto: tozecindustries at hotmail.com]
To: coblist at deatech.com
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:28:48 +0000
Subject: [Cob] freezing and cob

Hello to everyone. This is Juan, from Spain.<br>I was thinking of starting an earth building from January. It seems that <br>freezing does not any good to cob. My question is why, how far and what to <br>do to avoid this freeze damage and be able to build in winter.<br>Best regards and Merry Christmas to all Christ followers, who surely lived <br>in an earth shelter.<br>B Rgs.<br>Juan<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Entra de visita en las decenas de tiendas del nuevo MSN Compras. Compara los <br>precios antes de comprar. http://www.msn.es/compras/<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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