[Cob] Curious about the clay

[Shody Ryon]

Hi, I am not a cob builder.
What I have read is that most places in the world that have somewhat normal soil, not like say the sahara desert, have a layer of clay as you dig down.

If you have limited space and digging your building site down will not work, then you might need to import it, as I understand it, perhaps someone else will add to this.

Shody

--- On Thu, 5/7/09, Robert J Churchill <rjc2000 at pacbell.net> wrote:

> From: Robert J Churchill <rjc2000 at pacbell.net>
> Subject: [Cob] Curious about the clay
> To: coblist at deatech.com
> Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 2:19 AM
> The word "clay" is used repeatedly
> but really where exactly is all this clay coming from?  I
> have no idea where I'm supposed to get all this clay.  For
> me, it would be easier just to buy clay from a ceramics shop
> but I don't even know if that would work.  I live in an
> urban area and it's not like we can just go out and dig up
> clay at a local quarry.
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