Saturday, June 30, 2007

Local school children come out for a visit as part of their natural building lesson

Henry & Paul start their fist cob lift
Kevin McCabe, Cob Specialist comes on site to ensure our first cob mix is correct
Every one ton of sub soil you add one straw bale
Mia wets the sub soil within the earth pit

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

First Cob lift gets underway

Ivor drives the digger straight off the back of the truck, an amazing spectacle !

The stone plinth wall comes to an end




@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Mia has her breakfast and Toby completes the last of the stone work. Mia and her friends use the straw bales and attempt to sleep in the house, however after 1 hour rain starts and they abandon that idea !