Sept 30th, 2018: Cob House
Cob houses can be really cool because it’s basically mud and you can shape it like pottery.
Depending on who does the sculpting, carving, it can look like anything you want. Mine would probably look like a third grader's art project, but I know monster could do a cool one. http://cellar.org/2017/cob1.jpg Quote:
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I would be curious to see a recipe for adobe. I don't think they used straw with adobe and it was used in the desert with little rain.
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Straw of many kinds is an essential binding ingredient of adobe.
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What keeps stuff (grass, weeds, flowers, marijuana) from growing on it?
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Cob may be a little different, but I think rammed earth construction usually has a binder mixed in it, a little cement. The soil itself is screened mixed and tamped making it a bad growing medium. I've got a book called Alternative Housebuilding by Mike McClintock on my shelf that gets into the process.
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Until this thread, I'd never given much thought to the wychert houses in the area around Haddenham to the west of Aylesbury.
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There's a short academic paper (pdf) from the Texas A&M University College of Architecture linked in the above Wiki article via Wayback Machine: The Witchert Buildings of Buckinghamshire, England: Learning Sustainable Construction from our Ancestors Wychert appears to be a nightmare to maintain and I wonder if it is possible to raise a mortgage on such a house. Restoration work in progress: Attachment 65139 Attachment 65140 M H Restoration Earth Buildings and Their Repair |
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I takes m'victrees where I finds 'em.
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