Cob: Re: Cob repairs

[Charmaine R Taylor]

MIke Wye in UK does cob repairs on barns, hoouses, and sells tools and
lime plaster/colors too.

http://www.mikewye.co.uk/


Ms. Charmaine  Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
http://www.papercrete.com
PO Box 375, Cutten (Eureka) CA 95534
707-441-1632

look at the gerat barn photos. under the Photo Gallery

John Russell wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:31:43 +0900, you wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >I've not yet seen much written about what goes wrong with cob and how
> >repairs and maintenance should or could be performed.
> <snip>
>
> During the 20th century a lot of repair work was done on cob buildings
> using conventional plasters, cements and concretes which has led to
> various problems in these buildings. There are now companies, mainly
> in SW England, that specialise in cob repairs. A good source of
> information is to use a UK specific search engine like www.lycos.co.uk
> with something like       cob repairs       as a search parameter.
>         Turns up quite a few interesting links with photos of cob
> block stitching and a company that sells cob bricks for 60p each
> (about a dollar). Hmmm, that's 3 times the price of ordinary bricks,
> now where did I put my shovel   ;-)
>
>         John.