The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home has got to be the best how-to-cob book on the market. With simple instructions, detailed diagrams, absolutely everything you need to know about building your cob palace is covered in this definitive guide. Author Becky Bee explains that her intention for writing The Cob Builders Handbook is to encourage the rebirth of natural building. Well, she has certainly made it much more accessible.
The book is organized in a linear format covering, in a step by step manner, the planning stages, choosing a building site, gathering materials, drainage, foundations, floors, making cob, installing windows and doors, raising a roof, and interior decorating. Each section contains great how-to instructions and descriptive diagrams.
For those unfamiliar with cob, it is an older form of building, beginning in Europe about 800 years ago. Currently in England there are more than 50,000 cob buildings still in use today. Cob refers to both the house type and the building material. The cob building material is made from mixing earth, sand and straw together to create a hand-built or hand-sculpted house.
With so much talk about climate change, cob buildings are experiencing resurgence. Cob buildings are natural, low impact, non-toxic, and are more affordable than traditional homes. Building alternative housing is usually more of a group or community effort and the building process is quieter, less disruptive for neighbors and produces little or no waste.
Without question, the best cob book on the market.
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Publisher: Groundworks
174 Pages
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