Jeffrey Raycroft

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Thank you kindly for your post soulmatenlove McCoy. Really nice to see your studio in the construction phases. Your website is a valuable source of good information. I will be particularly interested to see how you find things through the approaching (and perhaps already present) colder weather. I shall be keeping an eye on your website. Thanks again for the reply and sharing the link.
13 years ago
Thanks kindly for your response Dale. I have to admit that I have not looked into cordwood cob despite seeing the term come up in a few places. The topic of insulation is one which I have had a keen interest in and have received a myriad of advice about which makes things perhaps unnecessarily confusing. That is with regards to building only with cob however. I shall take an indepth look into cordwood cob as both the point of insulation and speed interest me. Thanks again for your post.
13 years ago
Greetings folks! I have been interested in green building and more particular cob building since first stumbling onto the technique a few years ago. I have always wanted to have a place to call my own, somewhere to build a house, somewhere to grow food to sustain myself and share with others. I came across cob building a few years ago after looking into the costs of modern building and thinking that there surely must be some way for us to make building materials ourselves. At the time I had bricks in mind which led to finding Google results on adobe brick which led to a few other things which led to cob which made me smile.

Anyhow, I own a piece of land in New Brunswick which is where I intend to build. The build start date is still at best a year and a half away as funds and other things need to be sorted before I can get to the point of actually standing on the land and beginning. I would like to get to know and chat with a few other people though perhaps in the area or not who have either done this sort of thing before or who are planning on doing it. I think it would be immensely beneficial to myself and those I communicate with to bounce ideas off of one another and just generally have a good time chatting about building and anything else that might come up.

So please hit me up folks or leave a message so I can reply via email or whatever suits you fine. I am just looking for like minds to socialize with and share idaes.

13 years ago
Greetings to you willowthewitch Hatfield! Though I am currently not living in New Brunswick I did purchase a piece of land around the corner from Harcourt on Emerson Road and this is where I intend to build my home. My situation is complicated given where I currently live and is dependent on finaces (as I am sure is the case for the majority of us) however I hope to be out on the land in Spring 2013 beginning the build. The thought that there is another with similar interests planning a build in the same area is exciting. I would definitely like to chat.

Jeff
13 years ago