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🏠 WINTER SALE - 90% OFF (Limited to First 150 People)
Hey everyone, Big announcement: I'm running my biggest class sale of the year for the next 2 weeks. My complete Cob House Video Workshop is 90% off - just $50 instead of $500. But I'm limiting this to the first 150 people only. **What you get:** - 20+ hours of video lessons (all downloadable) - 150+ pages of lesson materials - Complete design course with 100+ diagrams - Tiny cob house plans - Everything downloadable forever **Important:** While this is called a "cob" course, these principles apply directly to ALL natural building methods - straw-clay, hempcrete, strawbale, rammed earth, adobe, earthbag, and more. Sale ends in 2 weeks or when we hit 150 people (whichever comes first). Get it here: https://www.thiscobhouse.com/winter-sale Questions? Drop them below. Alex
🏠 WINTER SALE - 90% OFF (Limited to First 150 People)
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This is the Cob and Natural Building School. A community of people interesting in building natural, healthy homes. We teach everyone how to build their own cob home using traditional and modern techniques. Step 1: Comment Below! - Who you are - What your building goals are - What’s your biggest bottleneck right now? 😩 Step 2: Go through the Cob Building Basics Course! See START HERE - COB BUILDING BASICS
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Register Now - 2026 Cob & Straw Workshops Open!
I'm happy to announce my upcoming Spring & Summer 2026 Cob & Straw Building Workshops are open for registration. Come and join me in beautiful eastern Tennessee for our next Introduction to Cob and Straw Workshop! We will be constructing both a cob building and a straw-clay building, and pouring an earthen floor! These workshops are perfect for beginners and experts alike! You will get the expert knowledge to build with cob and straw! Either for small-scale structures or large-scale projects like homes and buildings. Please click the link below to get the schedule and class details. Click Here for Schedule and Workshop Details I have NOT raised class prices, and I've added even more great benefits to the classes. So, you can still enjoy the low pricing and incredible value ratio! I look forward to meeting more of you here in 2026! Alex
Register Now - 2026 Cob & Straw Workshops Open!
Dual Wall Cob
I was thinking of doing the dual wall method. 18 inches of cob 6 inches of straw clay or hempcrete. I think the best way to do it would be to build the wall up as one, but I worry about the insulating wall getting rained on. Would it be smart to use slip forms to build the 18 inch cob walls and put ties in it, build the roof, then go back and put the forms back on the wall at 24 inches to fill in the 6 inches of insulating materials using the ties to integrate the walls together. Or, would you have a better suggestion?
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