[Cob] Coblist Digest, Vol 7, Issue 41

[Susan Hagan]

I am renovating a house in Bulgaria.  They ALWAYS use oak on the window sills, lintels, and door steps.  The ones I am restoring now are 100 years old are are in perfect condition.  The window frames, doors are pine.  Old pine though.  Perhaps that helps. 

 

Su 


 


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> 1. Re: wood inside cob (Dulane)
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> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:52:29 -0800
> From: "Dulane" <silkworm at spiderhollow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cob] wood inside cob
> To: "'Damon Howell'" <dhowell at pickensprogress.com>,
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> 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
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> 
> 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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