How To Build A Cob House Roof

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.

How to build a cob house roof.

From sod to straw wool to wood there are a variety of roof insulation options for cob houses. About a third of the world s population lives. Learn about the pros and cons of each material in this excerpt taken from roofs. Building a living sod roof for a cob house.

A glimpse at how to build a cob cottage from the foundation to the roof. Recipe for building a cob house. A cob cottage you can hire which is heated by a rocket stove and was built for only 1 000 usd see the build steps 1 to 9. The bulk of the moisture will dry out of the walls in the first year but will not fully cure for 1 2 years past that.

Cob structures can be used as homes chicken coops barns and even smaller ones for ovens. Register for our 2018 cob workshops here. Using the same mix as cob the cmb s are made on the construction site itself. Once you build the house and add a roof you should allow it to breath for many months before moving into it.

With 3000 for supplies 1000 for labor and nine months of my own full time labor i was able to build gobcobatron a small cob house with interior dimensions of roughly 15 x13 and a footprint of again roughly 20 x18. The top part of the compressed earth block parapet wall is lined with a layer of baked brick. The staircase and parapet walls are made with the same blocks placed on their 4 inch edge put together with mud lime mortar. Once you make your cob it will need to dry out full and that can take months to years.

By ziggy may 14 2009 10 comments. At long last i have a living roof. Cob house construction is an ancient building technique using lumps of earth mixed with sand straw and water.