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Building with cob : a step-by-step guide / Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce ; with selected photographs by Ray Main.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weismann, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Cob (Building material).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (258 pages)) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Manufacture:
- [Place of manufacture not identified] : [manufacturer not identified], 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- Totnes, Devon : Green Books Limited, 2006.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Cob building uses a simple mixture of clay subsoil, aggregate, straw, and water to create solid structural walls, built without shuttering or forms, on a stone plinth. This ancient practice has been used throughout Britain for centuries--in fact, the material is so strong and durable that it is currently in use for forty-five thousand houses in Cornwall, a county in southern England."Building with Cob" covers everything from design, planning, and siting to roofs, insulation, and floors. It is lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred inspirational color photographs. The authors have recently been commissioned to build a thirty-classroom school in England in 2006; it will be the largest new cob construction project in the Western hemisphere.
- Contents:
- 1 Earth building around the world 10
- 2 Site & design 24
- 3 Identifying & testing soils 40
- 4 How to make a cob mix 50
- 6 Building with cob 80
- 7 Roofs 104
- 8 Insulation 122
- 9 Lime & other natural finishes 134
- 10 Earthen floors 164
- 11 Cob fireplaces & earthen ovens 176
- 12 Restoration 198
- 13 Planning permission & building regulations 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 26, 2013).
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1359629
- 9781907448263
- OCLC:
- 857364973
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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