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Our Fast Cob! Online Workshop is a complete, from the Ground...Up course in how to build your home (or any building) with the revolutionary Fast Cob! technology.
Fast Cob! is 10x faster to mix and up to 30x faster to build, compared to "traditional" West Coast or Oregon Cob.
A 64 sq.ft. utility shed took 2 years and 24 people to complete using the slower method. Fast Cob! built a 900 sq.ft. split level home in only 5 months, and 80-90% of it was built by only one person...the author of this online workshop!
All Cob is fireproof, insect-proof, rodent-proof, won't mold or mildew, sculptural, passively heats and cools, very low maintenance, and lasts for centuries. It may even be earthquake-proof. It most definitely is dirt-cheap. Yes, now YOU can build your own home without going into debt!
Fast Cob! is 10x faster to mix and up to 30x faster to build, compared to "traditional" West Coast or Oregon Cob.
A 64 sq.ft. utility shed took 2 years and 24 people to complete using the slower method. Fast Cob! built a 900 sq.ft. split level home in only 5 months, and 80-90% of it was built by only one person...the author of this online workshop!
All Cob is fireproof, insect-proof, rodent-proof, won't mold or mildew, sculptural, passively heats and cools, very low maintenance, and lasts for centuries. It may even be earthquake-proof. It most definitely is dirt-cheap. Yes, now YOU can build your own home without going into debt!
Our Fast Cob! Online Workshop is a complete, how-to-build-it-yourself, online course. It provides step-by-step instruction, shot in HD video at a series of Live Workshops held on Lasqueti Island over 2 years. Starting from how to find the right material to build with, to how to finish your beautiful new building, this online course will show you every step of the process, and much more.
Below is the the comprehensive course outline which shows you the depth and breadth of knowledge and instruction that this online workshop provides, available when you are and at a pace that matches yours perfectly...
Welcome to Fast Cob! - what it is, why it's the fastest natural building technique, and how you can ensure that whatever you create with it will last for centuries, with little to no maintenance!
Building Design:
1. Working with Nature: circles, clearings
2. Passive Solar: south/east
3. Starting small, keeping it simple
4. Thinking outside the box
5. Knowing your building site
Mixing:
1. Basic Mix
2. Mixing to match wall size
3. Dry material mixing (i.e., summer time builds)
4. Wet material mixing (i.e., spring and fall and even winter builds)
Building/Flipping
1. Basic Flip on a low or new wall
2. Repair Bricks
3. Advanced Flip (on taller wall)
4. Large Brick Flip
5. Interior walls
6. Exterior walls
Material Selection
1. Simple tests
2. Brick test
Tool selection
1. Essential tools
2. Helpful/specialized tools
Windows:
1. Placement
2. Cobbing them in
3. Types of windows (framed, not-framed, opening, not opening)
4. Installing the lintel
5. BONUS: Replacing a window
Doors:
1. Placement
2. Bracing (2 kinds) or not!
3. Cobbing them in
Electrical:
1. Design
2. Laying wires before building begins
3. Channelling into walls after building is completed
Plumbing:
1. Design (based on gravity feed supply)
2. Laying pipe before building
3. Drilling into walls after building
Foundations:
1. Design and theory
2. Best practices
3. Using nature's gifts
Roofs:
1. Laying purlins/rafters in the Cob
2. Sheathing
3. Applying the metal/shakes
4. Finishing the ceiling/insulating
Woodstove:
1. Placement
2. Installing chimney (not just through the roof!)
Natural Plaster:
1. How to make (ratios that allow one layer applications that are fail safe)
2. How to apply (lots of tricks and tools)
Floors:
1. Cob (ratio of mix and how to pour)
2. Wood (basic guide to hardwood flooring)
Below is the the comprehensive course outline which shows you the depth and breadth of knowledge and instruction that this online workshop provides, available when you are and at a pace that matches yours perfectly...
Welcome to Fast Cob! - what it is, why it's the fastest natural building technique, and how you can ensure that whatever you create with it will last for centuries, with little to no maintenance!
Building Design:
1. Working with Nature: circles, clearings
2. Passive Solar: south/east
3. Starting small, keeping it simple
4. Thinking outside the box
5. Knowing your building site
Mixing:
1. Basic Mix
2. Mixing to match wall size
3. Dry material mixing (i.e., summer time builds)
4. Wet material mixing (i.e., spring and fall and even winter builds)
Building/Flipping
1. Basic Flip on a low or new wall
2. Repair Bricks
3. Advanced Flip (on taller wall)
4. Large Brick Flip
5. Interior walls
6. Exterior walls
Material Selection
1. Simple tests
2. Brick test
Tool selection
1. Essential tools
2. Helpful/specialized tools
Windows:
1. Placement
2. Cobbing them in
3. Types of windows (framed, not-framed, opening, not opening)
4. Installing the lintel
5. BONUS: Replacing a window
Doors:
1. Placement
2. Bracing (2 kinds) or not!
3. Cobbing them in
Electrical:
1. Design
2. Laying wires before building begins
3. Channelling into walls after building is completed
Plumbing:
1. Design (based on gravity feed supply)
2. Laying pipe before building
3. Drilling into walls after building
Foundations:
1. Design and theory
2. Best practices
3. Using nature's gifts
Roofs:
1. Laying purlins/rafters in the Cob
2. Sheathing
3. Applying the metal/shakes
4. Finishing the ceiling/insulating
Woodstove:
1. Placement
2. Installing chimney (not just through the roof!)
Natural Plaster:
1. How to make (ratios that allow one layer applications that are fail safe)
2. How to apply (lots of tricks and tools)
Floors:
1. Cob (ratio of mix and how to pour)
2. Wood (basic guide to hardwood flooring)