All about Cobb homes
Cobb homes are a awesome alternative for people with land but not much of a budget left. They are very energy frugal and sturdy. Be sure to check local regulations before building.
Cobb homes have been used for thousands of years, I can't wait to build my first Cobb House, it will be small probably like a 20 x 20 foot just so I can learn the process correctly. I will turn that into a storage shed.
Cobb houses can be made of mud and straw as I build some small scale models I will take pictures. Not only are Cobb houses cheap to build they are also very energy efficient . By combining energy saving and low initial cost your return on investment can be as low as 2-5 years.
Update I met a local Farmer who might trade Bails of hay for vegetables and berries. Looks like I will build my small scale cobbhouse this spring.
Building a Cobb house
You can build your own Cobb house
- Green Home Building: Natural Building Techniques: Cob
- Describes the use of cob, which is a mixture of sand, clay and straw, for creating natural, sustainable buildings, with pictures and related resources of books and links.
- cobworks.com - Have us build you a cob house.
- HAVE US BUILD YOU A COB HOUSE If you like what you
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interested in s - The Hand-Sculpted House: how to build a cob cottage
- Hand-Sculpted House: how to design and build your own radically simple cob cottage. Plasters, earthen floors, adobe, garden walls, sculpting with earth, building with earth.
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- Cob, Natural earthbuilding, Women's workshops, Eco-friendly low cost housing, Sustainable living, Groundworks, Becky Bee, Cob Builders Handbook.
- what is cob?
- Think of cob building as house sculpting. Typically contemporary cob has beautiful curvilinear walls and many sculptural details. ...
- build a cobb house on 43 Things
- build a cobb house ... I want to build a COBB HOME!! - 1 year ago ... tell me how much it would cost me to build a Cobb home, and who could do it for me? ...
- History of Cob
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thomasa wrote...
Good luck on building your cobhouse. Energy saving and cheap to build are great catch in today's energy crisis time. Just in case you decide you need additional storage space while you are building we have portable storages available. Check it out Storage buildings They come in different sizes and models to fit your budget and needs.
Posted May 15, 2008
MerryM wrote...
Nice lens. I didn't know about the project at Wounded Knee, thanks for that vid. Good luck with your house!
Posted May 09, 2008
Gail_Faulkner wrote...
Hi Lensmaster nice lens. I invite you to join my Best Ratings Group We would love to have you.
Posted May 14, 2007
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Green buildings on Wikipedia
Category: Image - :Kansas stc.jpg|thumb|right|US EPA Kansas City Science & Technology Center.
This facility features the following green attributes:
*LEED 2.0 Gold certified *Green Power *Native Landscaping
Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources ? energy, water, and materials ? while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal.Frej, Anne B., editor. Green Office Buildings: A Practical Guide to Development. Washington, D.C.: ULI--The Urban Land Institute, 2005. Pp 4-8
Green buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by:
*Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources
*Protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity
*Reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradationBasic Information | Green Building |US EPA
A similar concept is natural building, which is usually on a smaller scale and tends to focus on the use of natural materials that are available locally.Hopkins, R. 2002. A Natural Way of Building. Transition Culture. Retrieved: 2007-03-30. Other commonly used terms include sustainable design and green architecture.
The related concepts of sustainable development and sustainability are integral to green building. Effective green building can lead to 1) reduced operating costs by increasing productivity and using less energy and water, 2) improved public and occupant health due to improved indoor air quality, and 3) reduced environmental impacts by, for example, lessening storm water runoff and the heat island effect. Practitioners of green building often seek to achieve not only ecological but aesthetic harmony between a structure and its surrounding natural and built environment, although the appearance and style of sustainable buildings is not necessarily distinguishable from their less sustainable counterparts.
