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July
23rd 2003
Work on the Rob and Emma's house is progressing well.
The walls are now 8 feet high and work will begin
next week to put up the first floor joists. The walls
look amazing, we are ever more impressed with cob
as a building material. We have had a steady team
of dedicated and wonderful volunteers, to all of whom
we are hugely grateful. Once we have the joists in
place we will begin the upstairs cob work, which will
include constructing the chimneys upstairs from cob,
as well as raising the walls to the height where the
roof can go on. We have combined tried and tested
techniques with some things we have made up as we
go along. One of our homegrown successes is a way
we came up with to form the tops of the bookshelves,
where instead of making plywood forms, we just made
a level base and formed the tops with wet sand, in
much the same way that you do when making a cob bread
oven. This work really well and the tops of the bookshelves
look great.
Thomas and Ulrike's house is almost ready for the
cobbing to begin, all the timberwork now being in
place. Their frames are made with roundwood poles,
which look great peeled. All in all progress is going
very well. We will update with more pictures soon.
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