How To Make A Cob House Roof

Cob structures can be used as homes chicken coops barns and even smaller ones for ovens.

How to make a cob house roof. Posted 5 years ago. The cob wall has small openings in the top and the bottom of the wall to facilitate good ventilation for keeping the house cool. The 4 thick cob wall. From sod to straw wool to wood there are a variety of roof insulation options for cob houses.

On monday a group of about twelve folks assembled to help me lift sod onto the top of my roof and in two and a half hours it was effectively covered. His perseverance and meticulous calculations made it possible for devan mash to design a 4 thick cob wall. Cob building is easy to learn requires no special equipment and uses sustainable materials. The important part of cob is getting the mix right you want roughly between 2 parts clay 1 part sand sprinkling of straw and a little water.

To mix these together the favorite method is with your bare feet. I love the feeling of the cob squishing between your toes so much fun. About a third of the world s population lives. They way the roof is designed is to act in compression while exerting force on the bond beam which will act in tension.

Learn about the pros and cons of each material in this excerpt taken from roofs. I ve been anticipating this day for over a year now and it s finally done. At long last i have a living roof. I am no expert but the guy in england kevin mccabe that builds huge cob houses uses a dead man and a wooden rim and then attaches wood to wood for the roof and then covers the joints in with cob fills the cob up to the roof beams.

By ziggy may 14 2009 10 comments. Building a living sod roof for a cob house. I am planning to build a cob cottage using a post and beam construction to hold up the roof as i am in a seismic area. For a much fuller discussion of foundations and drainage issues as they relate to cob see my book with ianto evans and linda smiley the hand sculpted house q.

Cob house construction is an ancient building technique using lumps of earth mixed with sand straw and water.