[Cob] Coblist Digest, Vol 10, Issue 54

[robert gepford]

I would suggest you contact Michael Wood on FB and raise some of these
questions...He lives in Northern Cali and is an expert superadobe builder
and also a ceramicist so he knows huge amounts about both earth
and stabilized earth building. I hired him to go over my ideas for building
my superadobe house. His insights pulled me through.  There are a lot of
misconceptions by many of the "natural" builders
concerning stabilized earth and the use of things like rebar and barb
wire.. I understand their wanting to build their way and have learned much
from them but some have made it a religion and dis things done for safety
and reliability.
eg. I was told i could not build a superadobe dome in Thailand (whew I now
live) I now have a nice 11 ft dome on my place...will see how it holds up
but so far it is great. and now we have our 2 br. 4dome cluster that we for
other reasons have roofed moving on to completion...we have used
very successfully a dirt stabilized with a bit of cement superadobe and are
using an infill using over 50% rice hulls with dirt and less than10% cement
and some lime.(not hydrated,but ag type, all we ca get here) this has
worked beautifully.

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> From: Jill Hogan <info at mat.org.za>
> To: Janet Standeford <janet.standeford at gmail.com>
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> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:14:02 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Cob] Coblist Digest, Vol 10, Issue 52
> I never use cement concrete in my buildings it is not compatable with
> earth. In all the houses we restore the worst damage is where cement has
> been used. What holds earth buildings togethere is the molecular structure
> of earth being platlets and the magnetic energy of moisture between those
> platlets. Cement sucks the moisture out and hey presto the wall turns to
> powder and of course collapses. I only use lime concrete and plasters as
> they have the same molecular structure as earth. There ius a natural flow
> of air and breathing which should never be blocked by artificial materials.
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> Jill
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> On 2012/06/23 02:25 AM, Janet Standeford wrote:
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>> Jill,
>> Will you please let me know if you have tried a one way vapor barrier
>> between the cob and concrete?
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Jill Hogan <info at mat.org.za <mailto:
>> info at mat.org.za>> wrote:
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>>    Well done Tony, Cob and cement are not compatible at all. We do a
>>    lot of restoration and where cement is put anywhere near cob it
>>    just breaks the cob up
>>    Cob with natural foundation endures for centuaries.
>>    Jill
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