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double chamber cob oven plans - download

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I built a Cinva-Ram CEB press, and I made it easier for you to build one too!

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balecob home on earthbag foundation--building progress

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Raised Earth Foundations

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Making cob 101 (the basics of basics)

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$30 method to make compressed earth blocks (CEB).

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beautiful cob

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Two Story Cob Barndominium Homestead 18 months+

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Help solve the mystery of the T-door

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Best roof for a cob circle house

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Double Chamber Cob Oven

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Paramo Permacultura Colombia - project for homesteading and education in the tropical highlands

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Songs to sing while treading the cob

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I need the recipe for tadelakt

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cob building - when clay isn't clay

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Cob Building in the Ozarks

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Stealth Cob House within a Greenhouse...can you all help me keep a secret?

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Cob House in Bahia - Brazil

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Idea generation for a house...

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Harvesting Clay For Cob?

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Help solve the mystery of the T-door

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How did people make foundations for wattle and daub houses? How are the vertical posts attached?

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Earthen building needs some tlc before it falls apart! Advice?

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Stone fireplace in a cob

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Cob Pizza Oven, First Try

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Rototiller cob

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Want Free “Eco-Bricks” for building?

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Palm fronds as straw replacement?

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My first ever cob experience... making a cob floor

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Any advice? Refinishing existing building

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All Clay Everywhere! Best affordable option to mix... straw? ratio??

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cob

Sourcing Hydrated Lime for Plaster

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Elderly and handicap friendly ramps in cob partial underground home

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new member Tucson working on a bale/cob hybrid home

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cob as altertnative to expanding foam?

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Cost of a Cob House

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cob

Roundhouse Studio Plans Package

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Cob House Project Volunteer.

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cob oven floor

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Cob Hat Rocket Winter Projects at Wheaton Labs

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Stone fireplace in a cob

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Cob in Wisconsin

1 week ago 11 replies

Fiber options for Cob

3 weeks ago 8 replies 1

natural building

Help solve the mystery of the T-door

3 weeks ago 25 replies 3 6 14

digital market

The Cob Oven bible: Build Your Own Earth Oven by Kiko Denzer. 3rd Edition. Digital format.

$14.95

3 weeks ago 3 replies 6

natural building

All Clay Everywhere! Best affordable option to mix... straw? ratio??

3 weeks ago 11 replies 3

natural building

Clay Breakdown

4 weeks ago 2 replies

earth bag

build onto existing house with earthbag/cob

1 month ago 2 replies

cob

Members in the Ozark territory (NW Arkansas, SW Missouri, etc)

1 month ago 5 replies

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Sourcing Hydrated Lime for Plaster

1 month ago 10 replies

Building a cob house in Montana

1 month ago 3 replies

introductions

new member Tucson working on a bale/cob hybrid home

1 month ago 2 replies 1

Any tips? (Any at all welcome)

1 month ago 1 reply

Cob remodel of conventional home

1 month ago 1 reply

Ceramics clay use in cob

2 months ago 7 replies

natural building

Any advice? Refinishing existing building

2 months ago 11 replies 2

homestead

Looking for homesteading & cob events around Spokane, WA.

2 months ago 9 replies 3

Steel Frame Cob Building

2 months ago 2 replies 1

Uncle Mud No Budget Natural Makeover Ideas for Boring Rooms. Also Get Muddy with Uncle Mud.

2 months ago 0 replies 1 3

Cost of a Cob House

2 months ago 10 replies 1

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Uncle Mud's Cob Cottage and an invitation to get muddy with me.

2 months ago 2 replies 2 2

digital market

double chamber cob oven plans - download

$15.95

8 slices

2 months ago 1 12 5

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Elderly and handicap friendly ramps in cob partial underground home

3 months ago 4 replies 1

cob

How did people make foundations for wattle and daub houses? How are the vertical posts attached?

3 months ago 5 replies 3 6

Can you store a cob mix overnight?

3 months ago 2 replies

digital market

Build Your Own Earth Oven by Kiko Denzer. 3rd Edition. Print Edition. FREE SHIPPING in the US

$25.00

3 months ago 1 reply 5

natural building

Adobe brick in Arizona accessory dwelling unit, partially underground

3 months ago 4 replies

Alternatives to Plastic Tarps for Cob Mixing

3 months ago 2 replies

projects

Rototiller cob

3 months ago 6 replies 1 4

natural building

building a cob mixer

4 months ago 15 replies

workshops

Cob Oven Workshop / S. Appalachia

4 months ago 0 replies 5

termite infestation in mud block house

4 months ago 15 replies 1

Cob walls built against corrugated iron

4 months ago 4 replies

Cob Pizza Oven, First Try

5 months ago 3 replies 10 7

My first ever cob experience... making a cob floor

5 months ago 1 reply 6 4

Seeking Alternative Architect in Arizona

5 months ago 2 replies

Cob Oven Workshop, Barnardsville NC

5 months ago 0 replies 1

Cob House in Joshua Tree, CA questions

5 months ago 2 replies

natural building

Earthen building needs some tlc before it falls apart! Advice?

6 months ago 11 replies 4 16

More Earth Building Tech Fun with Terran Robotics: Uncle Mud Office of the Day

6 months ago 1 reply 1 1

Hammered Cob, not Troweled? Uncle Mud at Terran Robotics for a One Minute Update.

6 months ago 0 replies

projects

Cob House Project Volunteer.

6 months ago 3 replies

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beautiful cob

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wood burning stoves

Looking for info on the best design for a rocket Pizza oven

7 months ago 10 replies 1

projects

Cob Hat Rocket Winter Projects at Wheaton Labs

7 months ago 2 5 2

home care

cob as altertnative to expanding foam?

7 months ago 3 replies

Can I build a Cob structure to use as an art studio

7 months ago 1 reply

building resources

Roundhouse Studio Plans Package

$150.00

7 months ago 25 1

rocket ovens

Advice for Pizza oven

8 months ago 14 replies 3

cob oven floor

8 months ago 6 replies 1 1

Palm fronds as straw replacement?

8 months ago 9 replies 4

Cob and ICFs?

8 months ago 3 replies

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Natural concrete alternatives

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$30 method to make compressed earth blocks (CEB).

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a great story of recycling etc

8 months ago 0 replies 1 1

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Which will keep a house the coolest? Straw bale, cob or rammed earth?

8 months ago 22 replies 2 5

Thermal Conductivity: Un-fired Earth (cob) vs Fired Earth (Fired bricks)

9 months ago 5 replies 2

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Cob Building in the Ozarks

9 months ago 35 replies 3 2

southern usa

Florida building codes; cob house?

9 months ago 5 replies

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Gulf South Cob Building Workshop w/ Sage Stoneman

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