Kassey Beardsley

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Justin Gerardot wrote:I remember hearing in one of Paul's podcasts, some guy just used a bunch of linseed oil on tamped earth. It apparently worked. I think cordwood would work on tamped gravel. I would try filling the gaps with dirt and covering the entire floor in some kind of oil.

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I think I will try that. I’ve only ever read about linseed oil, are there others to try?
3 years ago
Yes the bags are filled with road base gravel and plastered with lime! The roof is self supported built out of conventional lumber and tin.
3 years ago
Hi, I’ve been building an Earthbag home in the UP for some years now. Structurally the house is complete, this summers project is the floor. The house is set four ft in the ground on top of a French drain.   There’s no clay to be found in the area, so cob and most earthen floors are out.
I was wondering if you can do cordwood right on tamped roadbase gravel? Or if it has to be on a concrete slab.
If there are other ideas out there I’m more then interested! Besides the no clay, rocks are incredibly scare so no flagstone or slate floor.
3 years ago
Pros and cons to chicken wire on earthbag walls before lime plastering?
6 years ago

Phil Grady wrote:If you can drop me some contact information I can put you in contact with someone very knowledgable..



Building an earthbag house in the upper peninsula of Michigan.. Was planning on doing cob but can't find any clay in my ten acres or locally. The quotes on purchasing and delivering bagged clay were too high for my budget!
Figured my next best bet would be lime plaster, seeing as it its winters are fairly long and wet. Unfortunately I still have to get the materials from 2 hours away, so being as exact as possible is necessary!
He can email me at kassbeardsley@gmail.com
6 years ago
cob
Anyone have any calculations for finding out the amount of materials for lime plaster?
6 years ago
cob
All the jar tests that have been done have failed miserably.
Hopefully snow permitting I'll be able to get up there a few weeks before the cobbing and try a few other areas of the property. That would be a dream come true if its usable!
6 years ago
cob
Heres a few pictures of the project.
6 years ago
cob
I'm talking about an earthen plaster over the earthbags..

There's actually only about an inch or two of top soil on my ten acres, once you get past that its all sand! I had to have two dump trucks deliver my fill for the bags (road base gravel)
I can't find any clay sources in the Upper Pen.  so I will be relying on bagged powder clay from a source near my home. Just have to figure out how to get such a massive amount moved up north efficiently.
6 years ago
cob
Hi-
I've been working on a small (roughly 300 sq feet) earthbag house in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for several years now. The "building" season up there is pretty short so this June I will just be getting to the cobbing part. I keep it covered in construction grade plastic when I'm not doing work on it.
Seeing as I live 7 hours from building site, and the remote area its being built in does not have much to offer for materials- I have to haul most of them up. I want to get a rough idea of how much bagged clay I'll need to bring up, as well as a rough count of straw bales and yards of sand Ill need delivered. I know there's no one for all recipe for cob, but does any one have any sort of rough calculations for the amounts of materials vs. sq footage being covered?
6 years ago
cob