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Post by rockrocky on Oct 24, 2013 19:22:29 GMT
Grand Designs this week's episode see's a guy build the world's largest Cob House.
Forget your cob ovens try building a cob house!
Available on more4.
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cec
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Post by cec on Oct 24, 2013 20:20:52 GMT
yeah saw it , one of the best build i have ever seen , bloody big , im going to build a straw house when funds permit , planed it for a few years ,
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Post by DuncanM on Oct 29, 2013 23:51:56 GMT
Did anyone else notice the cob chimnea (possibly oven?)
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Post by bookemdanno on Oct 30, 2013 13:17:03 GMT
I loved the wood work of the roof the most but i find it so intruiging about how cob is deemed a lower grade material. Its basically unfired brick, and so much more environmentally friendly. The way houses are built these days is just so wrong. Why not use the materials that get carted away to actually build the house! I love Devon and all those cob houses down there, they are so beautiful and organic, and many are centuries old. It'd be interesting to see how many of these hastily erected, glued together, plastic fantastic modern estate houses are still around in 2, 3 or 4 hundred years from now! That was one of the better Grand Designs in the old model, and heck he was one strong fella! Arms like legs! And his lads who created that tree design in the wall...loverly!
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