[Cob] RE:Interior Walls

[Patrick Newberry]

What do you use for you watel?

Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: otherfish [mailto:otherfish at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 3:38 PM
To: Patrick Newberry; coblist at deatech.com
Subject: Re: [Cob] RE:Interior Walls


Pat,
I'm planning on watel & daub for interior partitions.
Can be quite thin & very strong.
john fordice

on 8/17/04 12:05 PM, Patrick Newberry at PNewberry at HFHI.org wrote:

> Well I'm in the contemplation stage of putting in some interior walls.
> 
> I'll be working with cob and wanted to throw out my ideas.
> 
> 1.) just plain old cob, the same mixture I've used but make the walls 
> thinner. How thin? Good question, maybe 4 inches thick? Less, more?
> 
> 2.) Might be a good ideas to make the cob more straw intensive, that 
> is add more start than I added with outside walls. I've thought of the

> clay coated straw but I think I needed to add a bit more clay than I 
> added last time.
> 
> 3.) Use cord wood and cob. (since it's interior wall)
> 
> One wall will have a doorway / door.
> 
> Other ideas?
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
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