[Cob] Re: width of cob walls

[Jennifer Hileman-Reinhart]

We are building a 1 1/2 story cob house and it is 24 inches wide at the 
bottom.  We are planning a 5% taper on the 1st story and then straight 
without any taper on the second story.  Our second story will not have 
full 7ft ceilings except where we will place the ridge beam and have 
the stairs entering - sleeping loft upstairs.  And the square footage 
is conservative with the footprint being less than 300 sq ft. (it's a 
pretty organic shape and we haven't been able to measure exactly but if 
you draw a box around it, you get about 300. . .)
jenn

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> Message: 15
> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:29:39 -0600
> From: Dognyard <dognyard at stockroom.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Cob] wall width
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> It says on the site that the walls began at about 2.5 feet wide at the
> base (the width of the foundation). That's a LOT of cob! I don't know
> what the thickness is at the top of the second story, but it must still
> be fairly substantial.
>
> Karen