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Cob: Concrete, reduce, reuse, eliminate!crtaylor tms at northcoast.comMon Jul 19 13:33:41 CDT 1999
DAVE... HOLLY Sojourner <sojournr at missouri.org> said this NOT ME!!! >> Well, other than to say you don't like the thought, you give no reason >> why you think papercrete and cob is a "bad idea". crtaylor wrote: <-----NO NO NO..not me Holly >> Lumber, adobe mixes, sand, gravel - all of these building materials >> nearly always have to be harvested/mined from SOMEWHERE, and trucked to >> where ever you are using them. Concrete's no worse, IMO. In fact, from >> the standpoint of longevity of the building, a concrete building that >> lasts virtually forever actually could be said to leave a smaller >> footprint on the earth's ecology - as opposed to the current fad for >> stick-frame buildings that are often decrepit and require extensive >> repairs in 20 or 30 years, and are usually a lost cause in less than 50. Charmaine- (CR Taylor) speaking: I said I don't want to see a cement based papercrete mix and cob together because the two then are not recycleable. for all the reasons Dave mentioned cement may end up in landfills forever. COb will melt back to the earth. I was saying paper/cement and wire if used, should be used alone, not with cob over top. and that was my opinion as to why it was a bad idea, each person can do as they wish, but most want to ask and learn about building with cob on this list. Charmaine R. Taylor Taylor Publishing & Elk River Press PO Box 6985 Eureka CA 95502 1-888-441-1632 More than 300 books for Building & Sustainable living http://www.northcoast.com/~tms/
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