Hello Marianne. Sorry for the late reply. I get hung up on cobbing, among other things. But to answer your condensation question, I don't know what will happen. This would be our first experiance with a rocket stove so if we get it running before winter we'll be able to find out. I can tell...
I am happy to report that we have officially finished cobbing our southwall!:D
Yesterday my soulmate and I spend the day lifting logs up onto our 5 1/2 ft tall walls, so that we could encase the logs into the cob.
I wish I could post pictures here, but you can check out our website (listed in my...
Superefficient heating unit that will provide a nice comfortable heat for our cob home. Well, we hope. As far as we know, we will be the first to build this unique stove this far north. How far is north? Winters are sometimes -40 C for a week, then we'll get a warm front. We live in Northern...
We're doing it! After 5 years of dreaming, we finally made the plunge two months ago and dug 5 feet of clay out of the ground to build our very first cob home. ;)
We infact just started the cobwalls this week, last week we built a 1 foot high stonewall on the perimeter of our foundation. But...