Felmy Laming

Hi Permies!

We are planning to build our house of cob in about three years and are doing some extended research on how to build.
We are plowing through 'a cob builderd handbook' which is an amazing book, let me tell you ;)

Now I have some questions that are left to be unanswered:
- Nobody ever mentions a foundation for inner walls, so I believe it is not necessary. But since I am not 100% sure on this,
Can somebody confirm that you do not need a foundation on inner walls?

- We would love wooden floors in our house. On Pinterest I see some cobhouses with wooden floors, but not many and none with directions on how to lay them and what the expcted difficulties will be. So if there is somebody who has wooden floors and wants to happily explain what we should pay attenion to, that would be great!

Thank you very much in advance :)

Leigh Tate wrote:HI Felmy, welcome to Permies!

If you have questions about cob building, you've come to the right place! Have you found our Cob Forum yet? Lots of interesting threads there and a good place to ask questions and discuss cob building.

Hi Leigh,

yes, thank you! I saw my post was at the introduction wall, but didn't know how to move it.
ohh, well, now I know :P

Hi Permies!

We are starting to build a cob house in about three years, so there's much of planning ahead

Now that I'm learning and planning one question will not leave my mind:
Do inner walls need a foundation (rubble trench and stone foundation) as well?
My guess is they don't since they won't have to endure rain, snow and lots of water in general.
And since our floor will have some kind of foundation; pebbles and geotextile as far as I know now, that should be fine too.

But you guys are the experts as most of you already built your own cob houses. So you tell me

enjoy your weekend Permies!