Comments on: Exploring cob

By: varaahan

varaahan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:14:18 +0000

Nice blog ! Currently I am building a house in my native village . Completed upto the basement level with stone masonry. Decided to continue with cob for super structure. The one mistake I have done is I have made a 7′ high door frame. And I have the design of having an open space in the middle of the house similar to the old “Agraharam” house and so I Have to raise the centre to 10′ and the walls are going to be around 8′. I have very little space left out in the outside ,so having longer eaves is not possible.

By: satyasun

satyasun — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:40:28 +0000

My grand parents built one such kitchen when I was very young.They used rice husk with the mud.

By: satyasun

satyasun — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:26:58 +0000

Have you considered earthbag construction. Rammed earth needs equipment and it is labour intensive.However earth bag constructions seems to be cheaper and simple.Here is one such project
http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/projects/haiti.htm