Graeme enyoying a welcome refreshment in front of the new Cob Cottage!
As you may already know, Graeme, one of our interns last year, spent the winter in Kenya where he and local trainees built a delightful cob house from start to finish. This project is the 2nd Kenya project and was a great success. They also built an earthen oven. Ann, the local coordinator is very please and she and Graeme are planning future projects.
Well done all on a great job.
The building grows
Many hands make light work!
This is good to see. I hope your building will last- my happiness with cob in tropics has been a bit shortlived: termites created trouble after a very short time. Let me know how this one lasts- I want to see success but hesitate at this point to try cob again.
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Elke
Dear Mud Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteAfrican Forest is an holistic agro-forestry Social Enterprise based in Kenya. We have just secured a small amount of funding from Total Oil Kenya to set up an indigenous tree seed centre. We would like to construct the building in Cob (approx 100m2). We were wondering if you have contacts for Ann your local co-ordinator, so I could speak to her about cob construction here.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Kind regards
Helen
Hi,
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Austin
Cob is very cool, very curious about the mites issue. is there a way of treating the cob as you build? can on incorporate plumbing and electricals as you build?
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