[Cob] bottles in cob

[Charmaine Taylor]

Hi Ian, I have seen bottles in an Aussie cob which were all angled down 
slightly. not set  perfect horizontal, to be sure moisture did not set 
inside.   but they were mostly 5 gallon jugs, and I know the papercrete 
images show a lot of bottles in walls too.and closing it off  inside to 
prevent spider and ant  hotels is a good idea,  maybe save the corks 
from the wine bottles, and dry them thoroughly? before using.


however   Rob Roy and others face one bottle inside another cut bottle, 
and wrap them with printing plates of aluminum with a rubber band to 
hold in place to span the


you will get very little light actually coming into the room if the  
narrow neck is  facing in, and  has cob all around it, this is why two 
bottles nest inside each other  thru the entire wall span.


On Jul 19, 2004, at 11:12 PM, Ian Marcuse wrote:

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