[Cob] Flood resistance - NOT!

[Ocean Liff-Anderson]

one of the cardinal rules with cob:  never build in a flood plain.   
basically, flood is catastrophic for cob.   ianto has some great  
"before and after" shots of a beautiful, completed cob that he helped  
build for some folks in texas - who insisted it was a "hundred year  
flood plain" - turned out the year after the building was finished  
was the hundred year flood.  totally destroyed.

don't do it.  of course, my restaurant's cob was is also in the  
hundred year flood plain.  and the last "big" flood was in 1970.  but  
you never know...

ocean
wildfire restaurant
http://www.wildfirecorvallis.com

On Jul 22, 2007, at 6:05 AM, paul wrote:

> Anybody know how flood resistant a cob wall would be?
>
> Would it be able to withstand holding back flood water for up to  
> two days at
> a time without breaking down?
>
> Is plaster effective or would some c-word in the mix be better?
>
>
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