Cob building with Maya
  • • What is cob?
  • ALL PROJECTS SUMMARY
  • Spring 2022
  • NEWEST IDEA F/650 SQ.' HOUSE. NOV.2021
  • • Pandemic project phase 1: Earthen oven
  • Pandemic Project phase 2 & 3: Bench & Roof
  • Pandemic Project Phase 4: Pajareque wall
  • Pandemic Project Phase 5: Solarium
  • Pandemic Project Phase 6: January 2021
  • Pandemic Project Phase 7: Rocket Stove
  • Pandemic Project Phase 8: Cob/adobe floor
  • Pandemic Project Phase 8 : Plastering
  • Pandemic Project: November 2021 SOLARIUM MOSTLY DONE
  • • Cob wall: first project
  • • I. "ATV Shed": Rural building SITE & DESIGN
  • II. "ATV Shed": STONE PIERS & COB LIZARD BENCH
  • III. "ATV Shed": SUMMER 2012 STONE FOUNDATION STEM WALL
  • IV. "ATV Shed" spring 2013 STONE COMPLETE
  • V. "ATV Shed" SUMMER 2013 WINDOW PREP/COB WALLS BEGIN
  • VI. "ATV Shed" Fall 2013
  • VII. "ATV Shed" SUMMER 2014 SETTINNG WINDOW FRAMES
  • VIII. "ATV Shed" Summer 2015 FAMILY HELP
  • IX. "ATV Shed" Fall 2015 GOT ROOF
  • X. "ATV Shed" Spring 2016
  • XI. "ATV Shed" Summer 2016 PORCH TIMBER WORK
  • XII. "ATV Shed" Fall/winter 2016 STUCCO TESTS
  • XIII. "ATV Shed" Spring 2017 FINISHING COB WALLS
  • XIV. "ATV Shed": Summer 2017
  • XV. WALLS DONE! "ATV Shed" PORCH ROOFING f17
  • XVI. "ATV Shed" Winter 2018
  • XVII. "ATV Shed" SUMMER 2018 EXTERIOR COMPLETE W/STUCCO
  • XVIII. "ATV Shed" SU18 INTERIOR WORK
  • XIX. Late summer STUCCO DETAILS
  • XX. "ATV Shed" NORTH WALL INSULATION
  • XXI. "ATV Shed" fall 2018 CEILING INSULATION
  • XXII. "ATV Shed" 2020 Where it's at now
  • XXIII. "ATV Shed" 2021
  • • Cob Chicken Coop
  • • CSU-Pueblo Bench Spring 2019
  • • Mud Mural Workshop WITH KIKO DENZER
  • • Cob Mailbox
  • • Cob Oven at Pueblo Music House
  • • Rough Timber Frame Shed
  • • Cob bench workshop WITH ANNE FROBEEN
  • • Horticulture
  • • Mountain Park Environmental Center Fire Circle Benches
  • • Xeriscape garden
  • • Ecohouse model
  • • Natural Building on show
  • • Nature, art, fun and other photos
  • Info about Maya

Foundation September 2020

I'm doing this the same as my chicken coop based on the concept of raising the soil under the walls.
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Below: Last rafters going up.
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Meanwhile...I've begun to use a cement mixer to make cob AND IT WORKS FANTASTICALLY !!!!
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Below left: Ceiling is repurposed metal sheeting from a friend. It is super lightweight and will not rot if repurposed roofing on top of it ever leaks (old screw holes patched with silicon). On top of that ceiling is vapor barrier plastic repurposed from mattress store. Then on top of that is bubble insulation. Then strips of 1x4's along rafters to create an air space before final repurposed metal roofing on top of it all.
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A temporary little stove put in before an 11" snow & single digits. It kept things warm enough to continue drying & not be damaged. We had a fun evening cooking potato harvest.
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Above: New pup Frida enjoying the sunporch bench.

November 2020
NE corner section of walls is straw bale:

Below left: NE corner cobbed up. Middle below: Half bales between cob & corner of existing building. Dowel stakes in corner post to help secure top bale.
Below right: Bales covered in first coat of earthen plaster. 
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BELOW: Late November 2020, Lime stucco done
Grabbing little windows of time to finish things that can't freeze. Broke a rib reaching over a wall for a dog bowl so I'm moving super slow at the moment. Still, planning rocket stove for inside. Have bricks, drums, perlite & urbanite, but I still need quite a bit more 8" stovepipe.
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