How To Build A Cob House Roof

Once you make your cob it will need to dry out full and that can take months to years.

How to build a cob house roof. By ziggy may 14 2009 10 comments. About a third of the world s population lives. Register for our 2018 cob workshops here. From sod to straw wool to wood there are a variety of roof insulation options for cob houses.

Building a living sod roof for a cob house. Building a tiny cob cottage in northern california usa. Recipe for building a cob house. Cob building is easy to learn requires no special equipment and uses sustainable materials.

The staircase and parapet walls are made with the same blocks placed on their 4 inch edge put together with mud lime mortar. Cob structures can be used as homes chicken coops barns and even smaller ones for ovens. I ve been anticipating this day for over a year now and it s finally done. Learn about the pros and cons of each material in this excerpt taken from roofs.

Using the same mix as cob the cmb s are made on the construction site itself. A glimpse at how to build a cob cottage from the foundation to the roof. Cob house construction is an ancient building technique using lumps of earth mixed with sand straw and water. The top part of the compressed earth block parapet wall is lined with a layer of baked brick.

On monday a group of about twelve folks assembled to help me lift sod onto the top of my roof and in two and a half hours it was effectively covered. Once you build the house and add a roof you should allow it to breath for many months before moving into it. At long last i have a living roof.