Tag Archive: drainage and foundations

[ April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010. ] Familiarize yourself with the concepts behind a rubble trench foundation. On Friday night, you will see a photo presentation documenting the digging of the foundation trench. Over the weekend, experience hands-on work as we do flow-testing on the trench, lay gravel, install drain-pipe, and ready the foundation for the masonry stemwall that will be built [...]

[ April 16, 2010 to April 18, 2010. ] Arguably the most important part of a structure is its foundation. For a material like cob, the foundation is especially important because there is no going back to fix it once tons and tons of material is sitting on top of it – it must be done right the first time.Our Friday night presentation will [...]

[ April 23, 2010 to April 25, 2010. ] Learn the basics behind mixing and building with cob. We will spend most of the weekend getting muddy at our cob mixing site, learning how to make an appropriate mix out of the most local materials.

We will be applying the first cob to the structure, and so will be talking about how to make a [...]