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Welcome! Start Here.
This is the Cob and Natural Building School. A community of people interesting in building natural, healthy homes. We teach everyone how to build their own cob home using traditional and modern techniques. Step 1: Comment Below! - Who you are - What your building goals are - Whatโ€™s your biggest bottleneck right now? ๐Ÿ˜ฉ Step 2: Go through the Cob Building Basics Course! See START HERE - COB BUILDING BASICS
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@Saidah Haye @Ryan Baldwin @Alexander Ihlo Hi everyone! Happy you're here! ๐Ÿ˜Š
Passive Cooling - A Cheap and Effective Way to Cool Your Home
A student shared this video with me. Would you install a cooling system like this if you could?
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I absolutely would. Heating/cooling bills are a beast. This is like running a root cellar thru your entire home. The sealed glycol system seems like the best of both worlds though, no permit required, no radon issues.... And radon has to be addressed safely. This would be a project that I'd seek professional guidance to take on, but it's worth it. Overall, I think the underground root cellar needs to have a resurgence in building because they seem to have so many uses! Another vid to save. ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸพThanks for sharing Alex! ๐Ÿ™‚
Tadelakt?
Anyone here really good at tadelakt? I just joined and wanted more info about that subject.
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@Shawn Na Hi there! www.earthpigments.com You asked about pigments & I wanted to know also... so sharing what I found. That website is just one US supplier of non-toxic, lime compatible, pigments with a range of colors. My online searches always had 'tadelakt' in them, so I couldn't find what I was truly looking for, which was a supplier for pigment! Alex replied to a question I had which made me change my whole query. I did a web search for "non toxic inorganic mineral lime pigment" and found what I needed. Jackpot!๐Ÿ’ฐ A similar search should also give you more options if you haven't already found your pigments. Hope this helps!
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@Shawn Na Maybe check out @TheNitoProject on YouTube also...he's a natural builder of natural plasters & finishes. No affiliation, just found him in my search. He puts his recipe for mixes in the video description-look there also.๐Ÿ‘€ https://youtu.be/Bw8X40mDgVg?si=G3YNiZkJBP1Xbahl
Hi I'm Monica, and I want to cover a hundred year old house with Cobb
Long story short, during covid I spent a whole bunch of money buying rundown properties in Hot Springs, Arkansas. I'm retired it's 6 years later I've got one 2,000 sq ft hundred year old house that I just can't figure out what to do with it. I've got over 30 years experience working for developers in real estate. I'm originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I moved to Arkansas full time 3 years ago. I've just recently renewed my interest in getting my building inspector license. I'm on the urban forestry commission here in town, for shytes and giggles I got my storm water construction site inspector license, I'm a certified tree inspector and since it's way easier for me to get my building inspector license here in Arkansas then it was in Pennsylvania that's my new adventure. So here's what happened when I started studying for my building inspector license I realized how inefficient the way we build houses in the US is and everything I knew about Cobb eliminated like 90% of the problems that happened to houses as we build them now. With all that said I joined this group I would love to share any and all information about the house that I have and answer the question , can you cover an existing house with Cob? Attached are my old 20/20 original building inspections I had done when I bought the property.
Hi I'm Monica, and I want to cover a hundred year old house with Cobb
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@Monica Wright Thanks for sharing about your journey! ๐Ÿ™‚
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@Monica Wright I'm in the learning stage. There's so much in regard to techniques and terminology and just knowing what I want, what's realistic and what actually works. It's one thing to buy a home already built, but to construct and design your own? Our culture has really gotten away from that. I'm curious about everything because...I don't know what I don't know. Also, this was the first instance I've come across where someone wants to apply cob over existing bones. Until now, I've only seen people build from the ground up, so it was unique to me. Skool is a great platform, very knowledgeable people here. So, I'm here to learn, ask a million questions, and discover my likes and dislikes & what I want in my home. ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿก
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@Alex Sumerall And you learned it well, sir! ๐Ÿ’ฏ It's my interior design eye, it loves straight lines ๐Ÿ˜
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@Alex Sumerall So precise. I would need spacers to keep the lines. Liked how he explains 'why' while instructing. This is going in my "Keep" folder ๐Ÿ“‚ to try on a pathway! Thank you ๐Ÿ˜Š
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