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double chamber cob oven plans - download

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I built a Cinva-Ram CEB press, and I made it easier for you to build one too!

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balecob home on earthbag foundation--building progress

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Raised Earth Foundations

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Making cob 101 (the basics of basics)

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$30 method to make compressed earth blocks (CEB).

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beautiful cob

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Two Story Cob Barndominium Homestead 18 months+

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Paramo Permacultura Colombia - project for homesteading and education in the tropical highlands

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I need the recipe for tadelakt

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cob building - when clay isn't clay

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Cob House in Bahia - Brazil

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Best roof for a cob circle house

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pictures from cob building

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Songs to sing while treading the cob

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Stealth Cob House within a Greenhouse...can you all help me keep a secret?

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Mechanical Mixer for Cob

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Tiny Strawbale/Cob Home Progress and Questions

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Difference between Cob and Adobe?

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Harvesting Clay For Cob?

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Stealth Cob House within a Greenhouse...can you all help me keep a secret?

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Tiny Strawbale/Cob Home Progress and Questions

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Join Uncle Mud's July 8 2020 Intro to Cob Webinar at Mother Earth News

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Help! Applying your own clay plaster - How realistic is my endeavour?

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Where can you buy clay?

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Greetings from Malaysia!

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Cob in So. IL

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Sodium silicate; Cob Oven Interior

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Storing clay for making cob at a later date

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What types of construction projects have you worked in?

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Uncle Mud Cob Fireplace Repair

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Advice on native soil

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Repair and maintenance of Cobb wall

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Fiber options for Cob

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Repairing my Parents' Cob Oven

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Repairing Cracks in Earthen Plaster and Cob

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Silt or clay ? (with pictures)

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Retrofitting a cob oven

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Uncle Mud's Cheat Sheet for Sourcing Earthen Building Materials

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Uncle Mud Subsoil Testing for Cob Building (Short Version)

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Raised Earth Foundations

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Cob House in Columbia, MO

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Virginia Cobbers?

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Building Cob with no local clay?

2 weeks ago 10 replies 1

Cob House in Bahia - Brazil

3 weeks ago 34 replies 86 11

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Cob in So. IL

3 weeks ago 13 replies 1

Cob Infill

3 weeks ago 5 replies

Uncle Mud Job Site Moments

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balecob home on earthbag foundation--building progress

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I built a Cinva-Ram CEB press, and I made it easier for you to build one too!

3 weeks ago 101 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 2 40 7

Uncle Mud Cob over Tire Bale Walls Earthship Rescue

1 month ago 0 replies 1

Cob Underground?

1 month ago 15 replies 2 2

Outdoor shower drainage?

1 month ago 5 replies

Foundation inner walls and wooden floors

1 month ago 3 replies

How to bind earthen plaster to Timber Frame & Concrete?

1 month ago 1 reply

internal wood structure to earth quake proof cob wall?

1 month ago 3 replies

introductions

Foundation inner walls

1 month ago 2 replies

To pile or not to pile? That is the question. 🤔

1 month ago 5 replies 1

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Cob building permits in Europe

1 month ago 7 replies 1

Questions: Ground first, or roof first?

2 months ago 4 replies

introductions

Greetings from Malaysia!

2 months ago 10 replies 3

straw bale house

Tiny Strawbale/Cob Home Progress and Questions

2 months ago 33 replies 67 6

Communal Kitchen Design

2 months ago 3 replies

Roof overhang on cob barn conversion

3 months ago 3 replies 1

rocket mass heaters

Uncle Mud Liberator Rocket Mass Heater Review

3 months ago 4 replies 3

cob building - when clay isn't clay

3 months ago 35 replies 1

10m2 cob roundhouse den for cold climate

3 months ago 11 replies 1

Floor for cob oven

3 months ago 10 replies 1

Repair and maintenance of Cobb wall

3 months ago 4 replies 1 2

Uncle Mud Subsoil Testing for Cob Building (Short Version)

3 months ago 0 replies 1 2

Brick Oven Problem? Help please.

3 months ago 2 replies 1

Uncle Mud Squirrel Tail Cob Oven, May 2019

4 months ago 0 replies 2

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Cob Oven Class - Eastern Shore of Maryland - Oct 16-18, 2020

4 months ago 1 reply 1

Repairing Cracks in Earthen Plaster and Cob

4 months ago 1 reply 1

Cob inside ICF?

4 months ago 2 replies

Cob with aircrete insulation?

4 months ago 2 replies

Where can you buy clay?

4 months ago 6 replies 1

Repairing my Parents' Cob Oven

4 months ago 1 reply 1 1

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Cob Building in the Ozarks

4 months ago 16 replies 1 1

Stealth Cob House within a Greenhouse...can you all help me keep a secret?

4 months ago 43 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 11

Firing walls of cob house to waterproof - is it possible?

4 months ago 8 replies 1

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Help! Applying your own clay plaster - How realistic is my endeavour?

5 months ago 11 replies 2 8 4 1

Advice on native soil

5 months ago 3 replies 10 1

Rammed earth vs. compressed earth blocks

6 months ago 34 replies 2 2

Microbial Water Filtration

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