I'm interested in building one one day, but I'd like to look at some examples and see how well they're holding up.

2/21/2007 4:03:33 PM

I've never heard of any in the area, but they sure were fun to watch on Dirty Jobs!

2/21/2007 4:21:10 PM

Dang, I need to see this "Dirty Jobs".

2/21/2007 4:24:18 PM

Those one around Black Mountain, and a couple of strawbale houses in Snow Camp,Hillsborough, Floyd VA, and some other NC hollers.

2/21/2007 4:32:47 PM

I've never heard of a cob house until you mentioned it. So, it prompted some perusing on the web - they look very interesting.... and I'm guessing there's some advantages to using this building material.



this one's of a house in NC...


here's a nice website of cob houses:
http://www.chicobco.com/

2/21/2007 8:29:47 PM

they live in houses just like everyone else, i dont see why theirs would be any different.
But its great your building one for those who serve and protect.

2/21/2007 8:53:14 PM

^ ^ Yeah, the advantages are it's cheap as dirt (literally LOLLOOL) and you can do it yourself. It takes a while, though.

I might just go look at some next time I go back to Asheville; there's a good amount of them out thar.

2/22/2007 9:10:38 AM

fuck that, i will gladly spend a lot more money to live in a nice house rather than some place that looks like king kong took a dump and someone molded a house out of it

2/22/2007 9:13:02 AM

for real. i could survive with a crappy car and sub par other things to keep a more substantial place to live.

2/22/2007 9:16:08 AM

There are different qualities of cob houses, just like there good and bad normal houses. Mess like this

and this

are purty nice.

[Edited on February 22, 2007 at 9:33 AM. Reason : ....]

2/22/2007 9:32:50 AM

yeah i have seen them out in the cali area, at least it looked like them from the outside and they are usually the run down parts of town that arent worth a shit (all relative cause "not worth a shit" out there is like 500K)

I am sure there are some really nice ones out there, but they sure as hell aint dirt cheap as you say... you get what you pay for

i still stand by my previous statement

brick house >>>>>>>> cobb house

as stated above i would rather drive a sub par car and all and live in a nice house

2/22/2007 9:38:49 AM

True, you have to be more careful building with it and protecting it from water.

There are some nice ones in England that have been standing for > 500 years, but there are also much more recent ones that fall apart due to shoddy construction.

2/22/2007 9:45:35 AM