[Cob] walls are done!

[Elizabeth Evans]

Congratulations! Huge project indeed. The blog looks like really thorough
documentation -- I bookmarked it for future reading.

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Tys Sniffen <tys at ideamountain.com> wrote:

> Woo whoo! We finished our walls today.  still have to do all the plastering
> and floor finish, and electrical, and, and… but, as of today, the cobbing
> of
> the walls are done.
>
>
>
> Huge project.  House is maybe 1100 sq ft, with 130 linear feet of cob
> exterior wall, maybe 50 linear feet of interior (6”) walls.  The peaks of
> the house are high, one side is 14 ft high, the other is 12.
>
>
>
> Our batches of cob were 4 5gal buckets of sand, about ½ of clay.  I
> estimate
> that each batch weighed when mixed up, about 230lb.  about 65 ‘cobs’ per
> batch.  We did 452 batches.  Started June 1 of last year, finished today.
> didn’t cob every day, and lived life, gardened, did other carpentry parts
> of
> the house, but, mostly, cobbed.  Whole blog at www.ideamountain.com
> <http://www.ideamountain.com/>
>
>
>
> Popping champagne now.
>
> Tys
>
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