why are morons so obsessed with these shits? there's a reason people in civilized countries built houses with brick and stone while only subhumans continued to build mud houses
cob houses
why are morons so obsessed with these shits? there's a reason people in civilized countries built houses with brick and stone while only subhumans continued to build mud houses
never heard of this in my life
so just forget it and you won't be bothered
Because you can build it by hand with shit you find on the ground
You can build it by hand with the ground.
thats how you make bricks too
Cob house is the ultimate diy, sorry you can't buy it at home depot fake diyer
Did you push the soil away via glacial creep across the landscape revealing the clay you use for your cob house yourself? No? Please just go poser.
working with what god gives you is diy. not becoming god himself.
if you have stone around you build with stone
if you have wood around you build with wood
if you have mud around you build with mud
What I do not like is how organic cob always looks, I have very little experience with it, so I do not know if there is a reason aside from it being easer to do curves by hand than straight lines
Im sure you could frame it
I've seen people using simple frames to do arches for doors and windows. In that same house they tested completely surrounding the cob with a frame. My guess is that they simply do not want to build a huge frame. There is also the idea that this subculture is supposed to go against straight lines
Really just climate and available material. Also lazyness or the goal of profit, you can't mass build mud houses quickly and I guess the upkeep is time intensive, too.
Nah, you can build the usual blocks with mud just fine. Pic related. But most people seem to like building organic forms just because it's relatively easy to do with these materials.
>buildings are so out of plumb you can see it from miles away
do sandn*ggers really?
They are about 500 years old anon.
if you don't have stone or wood to build with you are probably a n*gger
>there's a reason people in civilized countries built houses with brick and stone
the reason that happens is because in highly economically developed countries, labor is expensive but intensively manufactured materials are cheap.
The opposite is true in less developed countries.
This is why you can find million dollar houses in California with vinyl siding and vinyl floors but on the other hand find $40K houses in Mexico with custom built tiled bathrooms, hand carved solid wood doors, and a pool.
Rich people live in mud huts too.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/19/owner-of-famed-flintstone-house-sued-over-how-ugly-it-is/
kek yeah and he got yabba dabba sued
7/10
I happen to like the house minus the exterior colors. It should be painted one colour and not like a cartoon rendition of a tumor.
Land of the free
They're well insulated and look interesting, even pretty sometimes. I helped build something like picrel and it was honestly a lot of fun. Women love them too, at least on a surface level. If you have the space, resources, artistry, or need it's probably worth it. Just a niche bit of fun, but I would probably never try to live in something like this. And projects like this are horrific.
>Build cob house
>Coat roof and outer structure in waterproofing agent
>House literally can't decay
>Quit playing videogames
>?????
People suddenly don't hate you anymore
>sub humans
>living in naturally insulated housing with no asbestos or formaldehyde concerns and pay virtually zero taxes
Okay…
Modern men take pride on being good cattle
Bricks need very pure clay, be cooked, formed into bricks and laid. Cob has more breathing room for the type of dirt you can use, and only needs to be mixed and left to dry directly in the shape and place you need
>Bricks need very pure clay
this mf hasn't heard of earth bricks
Cob works for arid climate, in Europe it usually is combination of stone foundation + a bit of stone wall with cob bricks on top with good roof that would protect the cob walls. Humidity was the reason people started prefer bricks over cob.
There hundred year old cob buildings in very rainy England. What are you basing your opinion on?
If you maintain the waterproofing
I might have explained it better - you need to protect it from capillary? water (not sure about the expression - water raising from ground into walls) and from direct rain. It loses its integrity and strength fairly quickly than.
Btw: structure strength was another reason people stopped using cob, brick building is able to withstand much more stress.
Reddit spacing: frick off, I'd like to separate different parts of text, that has nothing to do with it. Frick your incomprehensible walls of text...
Rammed earth buildings?
There are more interesting building materials that allow for less "blobby" designs.
Hempcrete and Rammed Earth are two good ones. Properly layered Rammed earth is beautiful.