Kayleigh Wall

Thanks. Yes we have three of these but this is the best condition so will be our home and the test run! We’re in Brittany, France. It seems to be the normal building method for this area at that time. Thanks for the tip with the windows. Its probably that looks more daunting than it is.

Thank you. We’re hoping the burrowing from the insects is superficial and we are able to just add some cob to tidy up. I’ll definitely check to see if it is the plaster. Thanks

Here are some pictures of the holes and the windows

We have just purchased a 400 year old cob building but have had very little knowledge of cob up until now. We can see it hasn’t been looked after and we have a lot of repair and maintenance to do but some of the walls sound hollow from wasp nests and general neglect, I have read that we should fill the holes with cob but with some of them being so small this doesn’t sound right so some pointers on repair would be great, thanks.

Also we would like to replace the doors and windows as the wood frames have rotted away. Are we able to carefully make the openings bigger while supporting to allow for new frames, someone has previously bricked in a new frame