Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce, of Cob in Cornwall, have announced their new book today. Using Natural Finishes: Lime and earth based plasters, renders and paints. A Step by Step Guide. The book covers all aspects of the preparation and application of wall finishes made from lime and earth.

It can be ordered at usingnaturalfinishes.com »

Kindra Welch, a cob builder and designer, posted the the construction process of a cob house built for Jennifer Fruth and Robert Brown. It’s located in Lockhart, Texas about 30 miles from Austin.
What an awe-inspiring house. The quality and attention to detail really shows. The interior sculpting is delightful. The process shows the use of a bobcat for loading wet cob to where it needs to be. That must be nice! In the end, the entire cob house was lime rendered on the exterior.
Nice work! Continue…

Donkey’s dual rocket stove

I’m thinking about my next rocket stove, planning, drawing, scrounging and researching rocket stove mass heaters. While surfing the interweb I visited rocketstoves.com to see if there was anything new. I found a link to the rocket stove forum at Rocket Stoves… Experimenters corner. Thanks to Donkey for setting this up. I look forward to reading through the posts.