[Cob] Fwd: Are you willing

[Georgie Donais]

All,

Barb mentions that the NM requires a bond beam on top of cob, which 
to me makes sense for adobe but not so much for cob. Has anyone done 
a concrete bond beam on top of their cob walls?

Georgie
www.cobinthepark.ca

At 06:10 PM 5/18/2007, Barb Troje wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Barb Troje <btroje at gmail.com>
>Date: May 18, 2007 8:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [Cob] Are you willing
>To: dealy at deatech.com
>
>just want to announce I am working with Bill Druc, an engineer in Santa Fe
>NM. I was anticipating having to do infill walls, but he is going to stamp
>plans for cob as the support for the roof.
>
>NM Codes for earthen structures do require a bond beam on top of the cob