We had a heavy rain storm come through and wash so much of our cob away. I feel defeated 💔💔

We are slowly making progress on our cob house. We discovered using a deer lifter is great for lifting those buckets into the mixer! It's exciting to start seeing our cob walls coming together ❤️

We made a trial wall to test our mixture. It's looking good so far. Also got the bricks finished this week. Letting the mortar set up a bit before pouring concrete in the walls. Do the cob walls need deadman wherever we put walls?

Started working on making cob slip forms and put in door frames. We got sand delivered and brick work should start Monday 😁

Okay walk me through making the frame openings. I'm looking at the pictures you have, and it looks like the boards span the entire 18 in width, do I really need to use 18 in boards or If I use 10 in boards would that cause issues?