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I am excited to announce the posting of the <a href="http://cobworkshops.org/7-day-earthen-building-immersion/">first workshop opportunity</a> at the Mud Dauber School of Natural Building! At this point, the
school is still very much in-the-works, and the first workshops will be geared
towards creating infrastructure for future workshops/apprenticeships/events/visitors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have had the desire to have a school of natural building
ever since apprenticing at the Cob Cottage Company in 2008. It was a very
empowering and inspiring experience, and led me into a path that I have
thoroughly enjoyed. Now I have a family to share this experience with. Danielle
took one of my workshops, then ran her own, and designed and built her own
hand-sculpted cob cottage. Leo is our little two-year-old boy who loves to be
outdoors, and has a wonderful understanding of natural building for someone so
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If you look back through some of the more recent posts, you
will find images of the house that I am building for our family, which will
share the same land as the building school. It will soon be time to start
stacking strawbales against the wooden framework! It is a permitted building, and
will include cob, natural plasters, some earthen floors, and rough-sawn siding
from the local mill, in addition to the strawbale walls. Our aim is to offer
hands-on workshops about permitted natural building in addition to our standard
cob workshops. Once we develop our infrastructure further, we are excited to
begin brainstorming about wonderful workshop offerings designed specifically for
children and families, too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am very inspired by the DIY-spirit of people I meet
through natural building, whether it is building a home, a tool, a piece of
art, or something else. I look forward to finishing our strawbale home, moving
fully to our peaceful country spot, and beginning to really focus on hosting
workshops and helping spread natural building to the east coast.<br />
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It took us quite a while to arrive at a school name that we both felt really good about. After much searching, I looked to the work of my companion natural builders, the organ-pipe mud dauber wasps of this area. They have collaborated on all of my cob projects with me (when I'm not around, typically), leaving the most beautiful clay nests in various places. The wasps are not aggressive towards humans at all. They use all different colors of clay, and combine them in really beautiful combinations; the shapes, siting, and layering of the nests is just incredible! I hope to have their old nests in all of our buildings.</div>
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Mixing up some earthen plaster to fill in some low spots inside. </div>
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Time for the scratch coat of lime plaster. </div>
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This was tile that Danielle had embedded in the lime plaster on a windowsill of the original cob house. That window bay was removed to accommodate the addition, and so the tile has been sitting around the site, wanting to be used. </div>
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Finish coat of lime over the scratch coat... </div>
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Soon, my parents will be back in town, and it will be time for us to move out of their Durham home. And since our new strawbale home is not even close to being completed, we decided that Danielle's cob home would be the best spot to inhabit for the winter. This means finishing the interior, of course! So I have been working for the past week on preparing the cob house for our stay.</div>
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The structural cob is complete, but there was plenty of sculptural cob to be mixed. The weather has been very pleasant, and accommodating for bare feet. Leo was excited to get in on the foot-mixing, along with me and our friend Gray.</div>
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One of the first things I worked on finishing was the little gable roof on the east side. It has been sitting for a year and a half without any tar paper or metal. I had enough metal scrap laying around from the other house to use for this small job.</div>
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The next big project was pouring the earthen subfloor for what will be the living room. I foot-mixed a 1:3 (clay:sand) subfloor material, and troweled it out on top of the gravel drainage layer (with some old lumber tarps in between to prevent the floor mix from falling into the spaces between gravel).</div>
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One of the local cats was excited to celebrate the new subfloor with his tracks - these will get covered by the finish floor layer.</div>
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I installed some built-in shelving near the sink area. I think our plates and cups will reside here. I was able to pick a lot of great lumber from the free scrap pile at the sawmill nearby, and make a lot of great shelving from it - pine, cedar, oak, other hardwoods... I can't believe it's free!</div>
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Old hardware from the shop of a father of a friend of Danielle's mom's, that will be put to good use in our new kitchen.</div>
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This is the wood stove that we originally bought for our strawbale house, but decided would be more appropriate here because of it's small size. It draws really well, and is a pleasure to use. I look forward to wood heat this winter!</div>
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I began working on countertops the other day: tile around the sink, salvaged chestnut for the main preparation counter...</div>
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The chestnut still needs to be finished with a butcher block finish, and then it will really sing!</div>
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I loved seeing the mud dauber wasp nests that were built with cob around the basin of the sink. It's such intricate, incredible artwork.</div>
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Leo and I built a little cob bench together, so that we have a place to sit and take winter boots off when we come in the back door. Here he practices his troweling on the bench:</div>
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Danielle took some great shots of and from the green roof. Things are very much alive up there - it's exciting to see the growth! All I did was throw soil up - no watering, no planting, no maintenance.</div>
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This is a shot from the upper roof (the original roof). You can hardly tell that you're looking down to the ground past two roof tops. It looks more like Danielle is sitting up on a hill. Can you spot the edges of the two green roofs that are in the photo?</div>
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And here are some other photos of the house from all kinds of perspectives:</div>
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I have been fully enjoying my time building a home for my family. Danielle and I worked out the design for quite a while. "Version 1" came while we were visiting Stony Creek Farm in Walton, NY last November, and was clearly inspired by Dan and Kate's 900-square-foot cabin (thanks for the inspiration!). Over 6 months, our original idea was constantly tweaked and improved to fit our needs. I love designing spaces, and to spend time designing my own space was a treat that I have looked forward to since first learning how to build.</div>
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We bought our land in March, and began dreaming all over it. We had a driveway cut into it - and a house site cleared while the big excavator was around. Having trees cleared for out home felt selfish and I remember feeling physically disgusting when I first pulled up and the contractor had already started swinging his huge boom around, knocking trees down and ripping them up out of the earth. One of the considerations for our house was a desire to damage ecology as little as possible. Thankfully, all of the trees that ended up coming out were less than 10 years old (most of the land had been logged 8 years back). </div>
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Once the site was clear, the builder in me wanted to take over the reigns from the designer. After a couple more big design changes, I submitted the plans for a permit, and started groundbreaking within a week of receiving it.</div>
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Mostly, I've been working alone. I've had Mike's help on Saturdays, which has been great. I had a fun painting session with my father, danielle, and Leo one day. And our friends Gray and Ben have both been out to help a couple times. Thanks to all! Here is what has happened:</div>
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There are big concrete "footings" below ground level that I dug the holes for, and then had a concrete truck come to pour. What you see in the photo are the piers that I then poured on top of the footing, in these home-made forms.</div>
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The piers will hold the house up off the ground, and the footings below them will spread the weight of the house out across the subsoil. I kept spraying the concrete for a first day to prevent it from curing too quickly in the heat.</div>
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I find great beauty in a well-stacked pile of lumber. This is some rough-cut pine that I had sawn at the local sawmill down the road. It will be our house's siding some day.</div>
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I started to construct the floor system one piece at a time, leveling each part as I went.</div>
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The piers are all the same size, and the ground slopes, so I used wooden "stilts" of varying lengths to level everything out.</div>
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All the floor joists are in! Time for the subfloor.</div>
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Half of wall #1! Some of the walls are very tall, because they extend into the second story. I built them all lying flat on the subfloor, and then lifted them up as whole units, so in some places I had to do half the wall at a time in order to be able to lift them up alone.</div>
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It was very exciting to start putting up the second floor joists. I'm looking forward to having a two-story house. I like the idea of looking onto the pond and garden from high windows.</div>
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I really delighted in designing and building the stairs! It was just the right amount of challenge, without getting too frustrating. These are just the basic skeleton for the steps, and nearer to the end of the project I will put the finished treads on and trim them out.</div>
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The house starting feeling really tall once we got these posts up and braced and it was time to lift the big triple-2x12 ridge beam up!</div>
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The bathtub will be where the little ladder is. The view from the tub will be down to the pond. I imagine taking a hot bath in the winter and watching Leo ice skating on the frozen pond.</div>
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I was out there today starting to get some roof decking up. After decking is tar paper, then purlins, then the metal roofing!</div>
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Getting the roof on is the big push right now (hopefully by the end of next week). Then I can rest easier once I know the rain is not sitting on the floor every time it rains. After roof, the rest of the walls need to be framed out, and then it's time for running the wiring and beginning to install the straw-bales. I need to begin contacting local farmers to find a source of good, tight, dry strawbales.</div>
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End of the driveway lean-to is complete:
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A cedar post and chain gateway. It's nice to have some security, since we don't yet live there. I've been really enjoying searching through the forest for fallen cedar trees, and harvesting them for things like these posts. There are so many, and they're all beautiful. The most exciting project in the near project is a cedar dock on the pond, utilizing a lot of the funkier/livelier posts.</div>
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The most exciting news of the past week.... GROUND-BREAKING for our home! It doesn't look very exciting - just holes for the pier footings. But to see it starting to be realized is an emotional high like no other.</div>
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And another little shed that will be a temporary kitchen, and long-term wood storage. Two of the walls are just stacked pallets (which will eventually get board-and-batten siding). Pallets are a good resource with which to build quickly and inexpensively.</div>
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The cottage "makeover" is almost complete, aside from deciding on what to do with the floor (tile, I'm guessing). The client chose a Sky Blue pigment for the interior lime milk paint, and it ended up changing the look and feel of the place quite a bit! I must say I miss the earth tones, and would prefer a yellow or reddish pigment if it were my own building, but it has been neat to see this building that I know so well transformed and vaulted into its next stage of life (I hope that in 10 years I can re-visit the site, and do another week of maintenance).
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I'm am quite pleased with how the exterior maintenance turned out. I think the cottage looks great in white:</div>
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The interior stonework around the woodstove had looked shabby ever since we finished the building - the stones never got properly cleaned off, and they ended up getting grouted with a clay mixture to seal up cracks during the winter... they just weren't looking very grand, as they had when they were originally stacked. So they got cleaned up, the grout lines were painted with the milk paint to cut down the dustiness, and then the whole area was sealed with a stone sealer. Now they look fresher and have a more deep, saturated look. A satisfying update!</div>
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There seems to be quite a bit of fallen cedar in the woods, ready for harvesting! Cutting through a cedar log is one of the prettiest, and best-smelling parts of country carpentry.</div>
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Today I built another little roof, this one here at the Carlton Project. The back entrance will be a lot dryer during a rainfall.</div>
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I framed a built-in gutter with wood, and then wrapped the hanging EPDM over this frame to create the gutter:</div>
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Here is the detail where my home-made gutter meets the store-bought downspout (it looks ugly from this view, from you don't ever see this view unless you're on a ladder or the roof):</div>
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<br />uncle/greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389025180189670673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108540977372659233.post-8428118698867073342013-07-16T22:13:00.000-04:002013-07-16T22:13:01.880-04:00Permit in Hand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I just yesterday received the wonderful news that my permit to build our home has been authorized by the planning department! Here is a big chunk of the plans that I submitted in the building permit application. It's an 800-square-foot cabin, with a conventional stud-frame superstructure, and earth-plastered strawbales acting as insulation/finished walls.</div>
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<br />uncle/greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389025180189670673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108540977372659233.post-33711134486163396672013-07-16T22:04:00.000-04:002013-07-16T22:09:15.974-04:00Cedar garden gateI built a cedar garden gate at Pickard's Mountain Eco-Institute, in Chapel Hill. Megan caught me in the middle of attaching the roundwood to the rectangular frames in a very orderly and parallel manner, and encouraged me to let go of my desire for straight lines make it look ALIVE! It turned out to be a fun project.<br />
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<br />uncle/greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389025180189670673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108540977372659233.post-78502314990270513092013-07-16T21:59:00.005-04:002013-07-20T10:46:27.655-04:00The first building (and start of the second) at the new land.We have some land to start the natural building school!!!<br />
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I have been wanting to write a blog post about being a landowner, and about the excitement that sends electric vibrations through my body each time I think about the future on it. The closing was March 27th, which was quite a long time ago at the point, but it has proved to be too magical and too open-ended of a topic for me to muster enough confidence to write.<br />
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It's 11.4 acres on Lindley Mill Road in Alamance County, NC. The land was heavily cut-over 8 years ago, and so much of it is new-growth forest. I'd say 9 acres are wooded, and 2 are cleared around an incredible little pond. The pond is set back 500 feet from Lindley Mill Road, and our house site is right next to it. The ecology of the pond is astoundingly diverse - the frogs population is booming, and the whole thing is lined with a circumference of cattails. </div>
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There are some huge oaks in the forest, and a good number of beautiful, largish cedars. I feel forlorn when I think about how gorgeous it must have been 8 years ago, before it was cut for timber - however, there is a certain excitement surrounding this new wave of growth. I think we are lucky to have such variety of species in our young trees. Oaks, maples, gums, tulip poplars, redbuds, dogwood, sycamore, holly, birch, cedar - those are some that I can recognize. There are many others that I don't yet have the knowledge to identify.</div>
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Like most places around here, the soil is heavy clay. Most of it is dense, poorly-draining yellow clay - not the crumbly red clay. Despite the gentle slope across the entire property, water tends to sit on the surface of the ground, for quite a while sometimes. Crossing the field the day after a rain can be wet and muddy. We hope to direct this water into a whole series of terraced garden beds. We have just begun thinking about our permaculture design for the homestead/building school. The water contributes to abundance of mushrooms in the forest. These I know very few of, but am eager to learn more - we've identified morel, reishi, lion's mane, and a couple others.</div>
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I spent a number of days out at the land to oversee the driveway being put in. During this time, I spent my days building a little shade structure by the pond. The Pond House. There is no electricity at the property yet, so it was all chainsaw and hand tools. It's mostly roundwood harvested from the forest - I ended up spending about $250 on the building in materials (cedar deck boards, metal roofing, and fasteners).<br />
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The other day I weathered quite a powerful storm in this structure. I was expecting a pleasant evening of camping by the pond, but was instead treated to forceful gusts of wind, pounding showers, and plenty of thunder and lightning. I did the best I could to create some temporary walls. It was wet and a bit terrifying at certain points, but loads of fun in hindsight.</div>
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The next building I've been working on is ultimately going to be my pottery studio, but will act temporarily as a tool shed during the home-building process (eerily similar in concept to the shed in the backyard here in Durham where my pottery wheel has been sitting under a pile of tools and boxes of nails for two years...).</div>
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It's made almost entirely out of: two old telephone poles that came with the land, and all of the concrete forms that you see below (under our little fig starts!), which have been used a couple of times each in the past couple years, and were ready for a new life.</div>
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After 4 years, it seemed like an appropriate time to make some repairs to the first cottage that I designed and built. The weather had taken it's toll on the earthen exterior plaster, and the green roof had begun to rot the untreated/unpainted fascia boards (the horizontal boards that span the rafter ends and hold the green roof in place). I have learned a lot about building since I embarked upon this first journey, and so I do things differently these days (details, mainly), but I am still surprised at how well everything has held up!</div>
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This is what it looked like last weekend:</div>
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Below is at the corner of the front windowsill. The white lime plaster has held up well, but the clay plaster got totally eaten away at the seam between the two plasters. The sill should have been built out with cob to create an overhand and drip point. Or the lime should have at least extended further down then we had it.</div>
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The plaster got weathered in an interesting manner. The pattern of divots is beautiful in a way, but would lead to the degradation of the cob over time, if not repaired.</div>
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I scratched the plaster up, to allow for the new coat of lime to bond to it.</div>
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The lime immediately starting to dry and lighten in color, as you can see below. The earthen plaster was dry as a bone and very thirsty.</div>
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After re-plastering the exterior, we began to paint all of the rafter ends and the underside of the roof deck. The lumber wasn't in horrible shape, but it had started to show signs of future rot and was stained by water.</div>
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I removed all of the old fascia boards, numbered them, and used them to cut duplicates out of fresh, pressure-treated, painted lumber. Then I screwed the new pieces all back up, and they fit wonderfully!</div>
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We decided to paint the fascia and window trim blue, but it won't quite be the blue you see below. I found this blue to be too bright after seeing it on the building. So I took it back to the store to get it dulled down, and will go back to do a slightly grayer finish coat tomorrow.</div>
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Check out that living roof! It's doing wonderfully, even without much soil left up there. There are bees buzzing between the flowers on the roof, and the variety of ecology is great.</div>
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We are going to lime-wash the interior of the building, and then paint it with a homemade, natural lime/milk paint. Here are some lime-wash test patches that we did at the end of the day. The reason for painting the interior is because the plaster is a bit too dusty. We have learned a lot about mixing good plasters since this cottage was built, and no longer have these same dustiness problems.</div>
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In some ways it feels sad to be changing the look of the cottage so much, because it was so charming and blended in so well in its landscape. But it also feels really good to be putting some love back into a building that I have missed spending time with. And knowing that it will now be able to go another 10 years before needing another maintenance job is fulfilling.</div>
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I recently took a day to go out an help a former cob workshop participant (also named Greg) mix some cob for a project that he took on in his backyard. We wanted to mix a lot of cob in a short period of time, so we rented a mortar mixer to help.
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Greg is building a playhouse and/or garden shed. The foundation is all urbanite, that he mortared together.</div>
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The quality of cob that we got from the mortar mixer was really quite good. We mixed it on the wet side, so that we could wrap it in the tarp and keep it usable for a couple weeks (and Greg could use a little bit each day, as he had time).</div>
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One advantage of the mortar mixer is that it dumps the cob right out into the wheelbarrow for you, when you tip the drum.</div>
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A disadvantage of course it that is burns fossil fuels, and is really, really loud. This was my third experience using one, and I enjoyed the opportunity. When building alone, it can become exhausting and demoralizing to have to mix cob with you feet every day (to be fair, using the mixer is also exhausting to the upper body, because you have to lift all of the buckets of materials up into the mixer drum). Sometimes the building is the really fun and inspiring part, and having to stop to mix every hour ruins the flow you might be able to achieve. So having a tarp full of weeks worth of cob from one day using a machine can be pretty neat.</div>
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I haven't done a post in so long, that it feels impossible to catch up in any sensible, easy-to-understand way. I hope the photos say more than I can.</div>
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Lots of trim!</div>
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I just recently began experimenting with homemade milk/lime paint. It's really exciting to be able to make a paint out of just 4 ingredients! The clay pigment is from the Blue Ridge Mountains (in Western NC - pretty local). The pain also has lime. And "quark" - which is the solids from skim milk, after curdling the milk with vinegar. And water. That's it!</div>
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The downside of the paint is that it must be used fresh (can only sit for about 2 days in the fridge, before separating). So you can't store up the old paint for later use. This means that I need to become skilled at estimating the volume I'll need, so that I don't end up with wasted leftovers.</div>
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I bought a scale so that I can properly measure pigment by weight (more accurate than volume for this type of thing).</div>
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Here is the middle bedroom before paint (the photo was taken at night, and looks deceptively yellow).</div>
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Mike and I have been working on achieving a more textural/gestural finish treatment with our plasters. It can go a lot more quickly than trying to smooth everything perfectly, and looks gorgeous!</div>
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I had way too much leftover paint, so I decided to use it to paint a couple murals in the house. These were both created one stroke at a time - there were not pre-visualized. This ended up being incredibly peaceful and centering for me. The photos are taken at night, but you get the idea...</div>
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And here are more photos from around the house. Painting the rest of the walls and installing the earthen floor will be the last two steps of the addition!</div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">This photo is from last year's 7-day cob workskop in Durham. These workshops will be in a more rural setting, at Pickard's Mountain educational farm and sustainability learning center. Pickard's is where Mike and I held our first cob workshop four years ago, and it's exciting to building there again!</span></div>
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I've been trying to figure out what to do with all of the dirt left over from the series of excavation projects for this house over the past 2 years. The piles of dirt in the front and back yards have gotten so large and in-the-way, that it was time to design and create some retaining walls against which to grade the dirt.</div>
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Here is the form for a curved retaining wall out front, extending from the foundation pier of the front deck. I built 8 feet of form, poured it, and then moved the form over and poured again to get the full 16 feet of wall.</div>
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Here is a very close shot of the PEX tubing that we built into the form, as a "weep hole." These holes will allow water through the wall so that it doesn't build up behind it and cause structural problems over time.</div>
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Mike mortared old bricks on top of the wall to match the retaining wall out front along the sidewalk.</div>
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The east side of the house presented a challenge, because we had to dig out a portion of the hill alongside it, for the interior floor level to remain the same. The neighbor's driveway is about 2 1/2 feet above the floor level, and runs parallel to the house, about 10 feet away from it. I decided the solution was a big retaining wall.</div>
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Here is the east side after initial excavation:</div>
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Here the forms are ready for the concrete truck (despite my previous post about how much I preferred hand-mixing concrete to having a truck come, this would have been 243 bags to mix, which I didn't feel physically up to):</div>
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Communicating with the driver about how far to inch forward to get the chute in the right place:</div>
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And pouring!</div>
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We had more than three wheelbarrows of extra concrete at the end (I ordered a bit more than I thought we needed, just in case something went wrong, or my math was off...)</div>
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I had thought the previous day about where extra concrete might be helpful, and had decided that a landing at the bottom of the side steps would be nice:</div>
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Here is what the finished retaining wall is looking like. You can see "honeycombing" below at the bottom of the wall (the area where the gravel is exposed, and it isn't smooth). This is where the concrete was initially too dry during the pour. I asked the driver to add some water to the mix and it worked a lot better.</div>
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You can see the "weep holes" in this wall. They are white PVC pipe - I will cut the ends off so that they are flush with the wall. I like the faceted corner detail, shown below:</div>
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The addition isn't in a very pretty state right now, which concrete forms everywhere, and plastic on the roof, and pink foam sheathing contrasting with black tar paper. I'm excited to continue with the beautiful wood siding, and greening the roof, and putting in windows.</div>
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I don't have many good photos of the process of putting up the EPDM roof liner, but you can see it hanging over the edge in the next two shots. Immediately below, you can notice the transition from the back porch roof to the EPDM roof. The porch had clear plastic roofing (which you can kind of see in the photo above), but we switched it to metal and extended it so that it overlapped over the EPDM.</div>
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Most every building project begins with digging down into the earth. Here's a footing form for one of the foundation piers.</div>
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All the concrete for the current build as well as the previous addition was hand-mixed. There are certainly advantages to having a concrete truck deliver the material for a big pour: it saves your body; there's no powdery concrete dust in the air, and you can easily order different types of mixes with different additives.</div>
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However, I've decided that I want to make more of an effort to use as little concrete as possible, since it has such a high embodied-energy. This is why I've been utilizing pier foundations more, instead of continuous foundation walls. I definitely <i>don't</i> miss the stressful nature of a concrete delivery. Once the truck is there, everything is a mad rush! If the forms fail, it's a nightmare. I used to get pretty frustrated during big pours. Wheelbarrow mixing is quieter and more pleasant.</div>
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(Using actual stone is ideal, of course, but not always an option)</div>
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It's fun to think of ways to use extra concrete at the end of a pour. Here's my latest simple idea, below. Once it cures, pull away the orange bricks and you're left with concrete bricks! (which I can anticipate using in the future, for various things)</div>
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The clay soil is beautiful to dig through. On this site, it transitions from topsoil, to bright red clay, to a tannish clay, and then to white, powdery clay. And there is often an interesting purple sedimentary layer above the white clay that is just 1/8" thick or so (which you can't see in the photo).</div>
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We try to keep our different dirt in separate piles, in the hopes of using some of it to make earthen plasters.</div>
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The pile of white clay looked so enticing to my plaster eyes that I had to try it out last weekend. I just added water and chopped straw (because it seemed to already have quite a bit of sand), and then I troweled it onto the wall, with the help of Danielle, little Leo, and Ian.</div>
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It's been rather rainy lately, so water management around the concrete has taken some effort (not to mention keeping the concrete warm enough during the cold nights). Notice the ad-hoc gutter extension.</div>
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The foundation work all went really well. Simple and smooth. Here are the finished piers and stemwall. It has it's own kind of beauty to me. Forming stone into the a desired shape is an empowering thing. It's sad to consider how much of our earth we have covered in tar and concrete, and I'm glad that the concrete footprint for this addition is relatively small (just a line and a couple dots, from a birds-eye view).</div>
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It's sometimes difficult to appreciate the clay soil when it's wet and sticking to your boots all day and weighing down your feet. If able to put this inconvenience aside, it's gorgeous! When it gets wet and the colors are saturated, you can see so many different hues. Yellows, reds, blues, purples, whites...</div>
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Even Leo can peek out the bedroom window.</div>
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If you're wondering why the roof pitch is so low, it's because we're going to install a living roof. Plants will be growing up there! So shedding water is not as big of an issue as keeping the plants from falling off.</div>
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I like the following photo because it exemplifies how the house has been built in stages. The orange plaster on the left is from part one, and the tan and brown plasters are from the latest addition. The door is just temporary, but will be knocked out into a wide, arched doorway eventually. The exterior light fixture was just installed to pass the electrical inspection, but was never even used, and will be removed soon. Someday soon these exterior walls will be interior walls. The metal exhaust vent that you see at the top left is coming from the bathroom. It will have to be extended through the new roof another 14 feet. Everything is changing and growing. It's a fun way to build a house. The design for parts 2 and 3 have been altered dramatically after completing and living in part 1. I think the overall design has benefited significantly from building in phases (despite the small annoyances that have been required to pass building inspections between each phase).</div>
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So far we've been working for maybe 2 weeks, and all the rafters are up. Over the next week we will get the decking on the roof, the floor figured out, and the walls closed in more fully. Hopefully it will be wired soon, and windows installed before my parents leave to go back to New York by the end of the month...</div>
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Part two of the house was finished in late November! I've been slow at getting any posts up, but my mother (the current co-resident of the house, along with my father) took a nice group of photos the other day that are worth sharing...</div>
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My parents call it the vestibule, and I call it the mudroom:</div>
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Living room, with a natural gas stove, which is the sole heat source for the house:</div>
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The plaster is a mix of purple clay, lime, sand, straw, and wheat paste. It was applied over drywall, which was the first time we tried drywall as a substrate. It doesn't have as much potential for curves (like cob), but was very easy and pleasant to plaster on top of. We coated the drywall with a sandy primer (literally a gallon of primer, with a whole bunch of sand mixed in, painted on with a brush).</div>
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I wanted to keep up with the theme of the arches. This is the view from the kitchen nook into the living room. The green door has a tiny closet behind it:</div>
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And in reverse... looking into the nook from the living room:</div>
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Some more photos of the built-in booth seating:</div>
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The cabinetry was crafted by Jeremy Curtiss, a friend and woodworker from Philadelphia:</div>
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I'm sure I've posted photos of the shower before, but here are some more. It's quite a pleasure to use this shower, with so much natural light, and so much room to stretch (or sit, if you wish):</div>
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And back out through the gate, onto the driveway. The wall you see is a strawbale/cob wall with cedar shakes for the roof:</div>
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"Leo's Cottage" also got an update recently, with some fresh paint, and a new lime plaster!</div>
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What a beautiful sunny day in Durham, NC:</div>
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There is still another addition to be built. The permit is being processed right now... The cob floors for the whole house also need to be installed, but that will be the last step, sometime in the late spring.</div>
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I used the same tongue-and-groove pine for the benches that we had used for the ceilings. We had plenty of leftover scraps, and I thought a bench would be a great application. I built the tabletop out of plywood, and attached it firmly into the wall and floor, and then I attached the oak strips around the border, and laid the tile inside.</div>
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I cut some pieces off of a long cherry board that has been sitting around the site for a while, and sanded/stained them. One will be the front of a drawer under one bench, and the other will be an opening door for storage under the other bench:</div>
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The back of the bench is a lime plaster. You can see the drawer in this one. It extends 28" under the bench, for plenty of storage to utilize the space most efficiently.</div>
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The purple plaster is an earthen plaster, with wheat paste, straw, sand, and clay in the mix.</div>
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I took out the old window, because it was single pane and was operating improperly - and replaced it with a fixed window with a double-pane glass that I ordered from a local glass cutting company.</div>
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I like the look of this siding style. And supposedly it will allow the wood to last much longer than it would in a horizontal orientation, because the rain will be hitting it and running down it <i>parallel</i> to the grain, not <i>perpendicular</i> to it.
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I love the look of the rough-sawn pine lumber. Trees have been logged, shipped to the sawmill, cut into boards, and then sold to us. The lumber at Home Depot has gone through all of the same initial steps, but then post-sawmill the lumber is dried in kilns, and then planed down to a very standard size and smooth finish, and then shipped to a store to be sold. That is a lot of processing that we are avoiding! Our wood looks nicer because it has a wider range of color, and grain patterns, and no ugly stamps.<br />
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So far we have just gotten the boards nailed up. We want to let them fully dry out on the wall, and then stain them. After staining the boards, we will nail up the battens.<br />
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I wired the addition earlier this week. You can see the blue boxes and yellow wires poking through the framing members.<br />
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Leo explains to me what needs to get done on any given day. Not yet able to use words that I understand, he expresses his thoughts using precise pencil movements around knots in scrap lumber.
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Leo enjoys playing around the worksite when it's safe (like when we're not working). Here he enjoyed his freedom as the only member of the crew who can fit comfortably underneath the floor joists. His cave.</div>
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We got the floor joists installed for the deck, and then started framing up the walls (you can see Mike is standing right beside a wall that is ready to be lifted).</div>
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Rafters! Here you can see the framing for the "mudroom," which is the small room that you will enter the house through. It will be a cozy nook to take off your boots, hang up your coat, brush off your snow, and then enter the living room.</div>
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Here is the set of steps that leads from the deck down to what used to be the "steps-to-nowhere," which we poured last year. There will be a railing eventually, but probably not until the very end of things.</div>
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I don't have an updated photo. Right now it's covered in black tar paper, and is ready for the metal roofing and the locally-sawn pine siding. This next week we're going to finish the siding, install the roofing, and rough-in the electrical wiring!</div>
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A couple of weeks ago, Mike and I ran a workshop here in my backyard in Durham. It was a great success! We hadn't run one since 2009, and weren't sure how the urban setting was going to work out, in regards to fostering the right atmosphere for a cob workshop (comfortable, peaceful, inspiring, beautiful, etc...). </div>
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We had 3 people camping in the backyard, which made for a very real and enjoyable sense of community through the mornings and into the evenings. The rest of the students commuted each day. The mix of people was wonderful. A good balance of older and younger, male and female, artist and computer geek. </div>
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Our chef, Julia, cooked all of our meals here from scratch, using fresh produce from the Circle Acres organic farm in Chatham County. Food can make or break a workshop, I think. As peaceful as we try to keep things, we also try to fit as much as we can into the 7 days, and so everyone ends up pretty exhausted each day. Good food makes this okay. </div>
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The building we worked on does not yet have a definite function. It could be a meditation room, a bath house, an artist studio, or a whole host of other things. I can see it as a functioning outdoor kitchen, or a space within which to build a ferro-cement swimming pool, or a tool shed (but we already have enough of these), or a sleeping hut (but we already have one of these, too). It could be a playhouse, certainly. I will figure this out with my parents, who will be visiting soon.
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Here is our fire circle area, around which we shared meals and building discussions. Campfires happened each night, as well.</div>
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Leo enjoyed spending some time with Salame, a 15-month-old girl who participated some of the days with her parents, Jeff and Faye. Cob is very kid-friendly. Safe, non-toxic, and requires few tools other than your body.</div>
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Having a "cob toss" is a great way to get material from the mixing site to the building. Everyone lines up, and balls of the cob mixture are thrown one at a time down the line. Here is a unique photo that Danielle captures of our synchronization. I guess it's obvious that Mike and I have been building together for 4 years now.</div>
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View from the porch of the house:</div>
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Getting everyone up on scaffolding, as the walls grow.</div>
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We built strawbales into the west wall, as a demonstration for interested students. "Balecob" is a great method for utilizing the two materials in harmony and combining their respective thermal properties in an elegant, clever manner (bales on the exterior, and a thin cob wall inside of them).</div>
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The tiny carrot-sized cobs that make up a cob arch are strapped back over one another to create a "muscle" and/or "beak" of cob. The arch is built over a period of 3 or 4 days so that it can dry out slightly at different stages. Trying to build it up all at once would result in it toppling over from too much weight overhanging open space. </div>
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If you look through the arch, you can see Leo asleep on my back. I realized after a couple days that I could get him to fall asleep every time I mixed cob, without fail (assuming he was sleepy)! He is not an easy guy to get to sleep, but the "dancing" that is required for each mixing must have soothed him into dreams. He would continue to sleep on me as I built, for hours sometimes. This reinforces my belief that babies are meant to be with you as you do your daily work.</div>
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Here, Nathan is experimenting with using black topsoil as a binder in an earthen plaster (instead of clay soil). I never would have thought to do this, because natural building convention is to keep organic out of your buildings and in your garden. It seemed to work fine, thought! Maybe it had more clay in it than we thought. And a beautiful, rich color. Workshoppers always come up with new ideas that I would never think of alone - that's one of the greatest things about a workshop - it's an incubator for new, inspired ideas.</div>
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On the final day of the workshop, we set a roundwood ridge beam on top of the walls. It is maple, and had been harvested days before from the farm in Chatham County. It was a meaningful way to end the week.</div>
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The experience was incredible for me. It's amazing to watch people become empowered with the simplicity of cob. After 7 days of building, students were itching to get to their land and start building their house. One of our graduates is already in Tennesee building. And Jeff and Faye are moving to Idaho by the end of the year to build their cob home. </div>
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I was impressed by how much building we got done in just 7 days! Thanks to all who participated, and to Danielle and Leo for taking the photos.</div>
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So far we have spent 11 days on the root cellar, broken up over a 2-month period. About a month ago, we poured the concrete floor, shown below:</div>
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We sourced oak timbers (4"x8") from a local sawmill, and created a sturdy roof system - strong enough to support the weight of the 12"-thick layer of soil and plants that will ultimately sit atop the root cellar.</div>
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Notice the detail below of how the rafters are notched so that they are butting up against the concrete foundation wall in addition to the sill plate. The concrete would have to bust for the building to collapse (making this structure appropriate as a bomb shelter).</div>
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From the same sawmill, we bought a whole bunch of pine decking boards, and created the roof deck on top of the oak rafters. The wood is rough-cut lumber, meaning that it has been logged from a forest, and then sawn into lumber at the sawmill. That's it. It hasn't been planed (to make it smooth and even), nor has it been dried in a kiln. This is the difference between rough lumber and the stuff you'd buy at Home Depot. Less processing. It looks a lot more rustic, is (arguably) more fun to work with, and costs less. It's one of the few instances in which you can buy a more local, more natural, more beautiful version of a product and actually have it cost less.</div>
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Installing the fascia boards, which will prevent the "living layer" (soil/plants) from falling off the edge of the roof.</div>
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The gable end walls (the framed triangle at each end) were insulated with "light straw-clay" insulation. This is simply loose straw that has been lightly coated with clay slip (which is clay soaked in water). Here Mike is mixing the material by hand - tossing it like a salad.</div>
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Here is some quick, messy form-work within which we tamped the straw-clay material. These boards are only up for an hour or two. The straw-clay is tamped in between the studs with a 2X4, being compressed as much as possible...</div>
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Then after an hour of drying time, the boards are removed to showcase the newly-insulated walls. It's amazing how stiff the material gets so quickly. Just straw, clay, and water. Cheap, easy, and relatively quick. Once it dries, it can be plastered directly over with a clay or lime plaster (we will do lime).</div>
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I did some dry-stacking today at each corner of the building to create mini-retaining walls to act as an extension of the fascia, in an effort to contain all the soil that will rise over the building.</div>
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The criss-crossing boards that you see running over the tar paper are going to get covered up with soil. They are just functioning to provide some support for the soil until plants take root. Once root systems grow, the soil won't want to go anywhere, but for the first couple months, the loose soil might be tempted to slide off without these supports.</div>
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Next we are building shelves inside, installing a door, installing a vent, and covering the thing with soil! And planting seeds on top, of course. The final thing we will do is plaster the gable end walls, once the straw-clay is totally dry (to avoid any potential mold issues).</div>
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We have finally begun work on the root cellar in Anatoly's backyard! Right next to the cob sleeping cottage. We already had a big hole from mining clay for the cob house (the hole was the inspiration for the root cellar, in fact). Here is Mike beginning to persuade the hole into a more defined shape...</div>
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This is the drainage "bulb" at the end of the tail trench. This provides an exit path for any water that collects under or around the root cellar. This bulb will be filled with gravel and then covered up with soil. You won't ever see it once the grass takes over, but it will be underground performing very important work. Without drainage, there would be serious water issues inside the root cellar, namely standing water and dampness.</div>
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Our client decided that he wanted a poured concrete foundation (versus concrete block, or wooden posts, or other options...), so we began to make forms. You can see in the photo below that we lined up pieces of broken concrete around the perimeter of the pad. These act as a "footing," which spreads out the weight of a heavy concrete foundation, like the one we'll be pouring. The footing is usually poured out of concrete, too, but a neighbor was getting rid of these concrete chunks and so we saw an obvious opportunity for reuse!</div>
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Here is the form before bracing.</div>
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Rebar hanging in the form. It will provide tensile strength in the concrete, when the concrete dries around it. It's like the straw in cob.</div>
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And here is the form all braced and ready to handle the weight of wet concrete!</div>
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We ended up designing the form so that we would have a floor system, on which to lay some plywood, so that we could roll our wheelbarrows of concrete up on top of the form, and pour from the middle (instead of having to make dozens of ramps on all sides).</div>
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The floor worked great.</div>
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Mike trowels the top of the wall, to get it as smooth and level as possible.</div>
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Here I am removing the forms with a sledge hammer, the following day. Forms can be difficult to remove, because the weight of the concrete squeezes everything together tightly. But despite having the bash things apart, all of the forms are mostly intact, and ready to be used again for another project.</div>
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The finished foundation wall!</div>
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