[Cob] wood inside cob

[Dulane]

Then window frames in fast drying times ought to be fine, if there is no
leakage. Maybe it would be good to use a little lime around a wooden door
frame where soil comes in contact. It is probably reasonable to believe that
you may have to replace areas that are exposed to weather and moisture over
the years...but hopefully not often.

Clay itself doesn't promote organisms, does it? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Damon Howell [mailto:dhowell at pickensprogress.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:26 PM
To: Dulane
Subject: Re: [Cob] wood inside cob

True...Although it is inside the cob it can still come in contact  
with moisture. I don't think steal will rust without oxygen, but if  
water can get in there which carries the oxygen with it... And wood  
wouldn't rot unless it was exposed to micro organisms which usually  
live in the ground, right?

Damon






On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Dulane wrote:

> After a little reflection on the subject, I think it would be  
> better to say
> that nails can rust if there is a lot of moisture still in the cob.  
> But
> thankfully my little cabin did eventually dry. I cobbed all summer  
> and into
> November. It didn't actually dry (rainy Seattle) until late spring.  
> If the
> cob has good drying conditions, I doubt if embedded metal would  
> rust much.
>
> In hot dry conditions cob can dry in a couple days.
>
> Sounds like a simple enough experiment. We'd just have to make a  
> cob brick
> with a nail embedded into a chunk of wood and let it sit a year or  
> two,
> outside in a dry location.
>
> So many of our perceptions have to do with where we are located.  
> Like who
> would cob barefoot in November, when it is in the mid-50's? But it  
> sounds
> like a great idea in mid-summer when the clay almost melts by itself.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damon Howell [mailto:dhowell at pickensprogress.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:37 AM
> To: Dulane
> Subject: Re: [Cob] wood inside cob
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Dulane wrote:
>
>> Good question, because I've seen bent nails become rusted when used
>> as a
>> 'grip' for the cob to hang onto around window frames. But I had a  
>> long
>> drying-out period in the fall, and the nails were well-used before
>> I got
>> ahold of them.
>>
>> You know what I think would last forever is nylon rope. Even the
>> plastic
>> baling twine. I used some plastic coated cable to tie in some of my
>> roof
>> beams.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coblist-bounces at deatech.com [mailto:coblist-
>> bounces at deatech.com] On
>> Behalf Of Damon Howell
>> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:15 PM
>> To: coblist at deatech.com
>> Subject: [Cob] wood inside cob
>>
>> I'm a little concerned about my door and window frames rotting. The
>> hand sculpted house says to use fire wood and tie wire around it to
>> anchor the rafters. Will the wire rust and the logs rot, or will it
>> last well beyond my years?
>>
>> Damon in GA
>>
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