11-11-2013, 11:22 AM
FYI: Cob is used successfully in the coast range of Oregon with 4 foot roof overhangs. It was a traditional building material in rainy olde England for thousands of years with thatched roofs 3 feet thick with big roof overhangs.
"New" volcanic materials like those that form the Big Island are a long way from becoming clay, so no we do not have naturally occurring clay here. This is an archipelago of volcanically formed islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there are a lot of geologic materials common on continents that just don't occur on volcanic islands.
After posting about the "earth bag" houses I looked online again; there is tropics specific research on that building material that has been published, easy to find but I don't have time right now to go back and find the links. There were more straight walled traditionally designed buildings shown than when I had last looked several years ago. The beauty of this building material is the crew doesn't have to be highly skilled, you can literally have a wall raising party and get the walls up in a day using cinders as your bag filling material, then another day for the same crew to plaster the walls with concrete over wire lathe and you are ready to put your roof on. After looking at the devastation in the Philippines and something with 18" walls looks pretty good.
Carol
"New" volcanic materials like those that form the Big Island are a long way from becoming clay, so no we do not have naturally occurring clay here. This is an archipelago of volcanically formed islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there are a lot of geologic materials common on continents that just don't occur on volcanic islands.
After posting about the "earth bag" houses I looked online again; there is tropics specific research on that building material that has been published, easy to find but I don't have time right now to go back and find the links. There were more straight walled traditionally designed buildings shown than when I had last looked several years ago. The beauty of this building material is the crew doesn't have to be highly skilled, you can literally have a wall raising party and get the walls up in a day using cinders as your bag filling material, then another day for the same crew to plaster the walls with concrete over wire lathe and you are ready to put your roof on. After looking at the devastation in the Philippines and something with 18" walls looks pretty good.
Carol
Carol
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb