Menu
cob.lasqueti.ca
  • Home
  • Workshops
  • Have Us Build Your Dream!
  • Blog
  • Join our Mailing List
  • Videos
    • Why Fast Cob?
    • How to Use Cob Now!
    • Why this Cob is Fast!
    • Windows and How to Bring Fast Cob into Your Life Now!
  • Links
  • What's so Easy about Fast Cob?
  • Home
  • Workshops
  • Have Us Build Your Dream!
  • Blog
  • Join our Mailing List
  • Videos
    • Why Fast Cob?
    • How to Use Cob Now!
    • Why this Cob is Fast!
    • Windows and How to Bring Fast Cob into Your Life Now!
  • Links
  • What's so Easy about Fast Cob?

Debt-free and Carbon-free Building?...Come Learn How!

29/3/2016

0 Comments

 
A few days ago, I showed you how Cob, and Fast Cob! in particular, can be used to build a home without the need to go into debt.  It's true: no loans or years of savings are needed to build naturally!  For instance, a 400 sq. ft. one bedroom cottage would cost less than $4,000.  You read that right - there are only 3 zeros in that pricetag.  For the complete breakdown, just click here....

Climate Change is another reality and it isn't going to stop unless we change our civilized ways...and soon!  Today, building is a huge source of carbon emissions, both in the manufacture of homes and offices as well as the heating and cooling of them.   Fast Cob! compares to conventional building practices in terms of speed, but there's no comparison when it comes to carbon-emissions, toxics creation, after-life disposal, heating/cooling, and length of service life.

Check it out:

Fast Cob! (vs. conventional)
  • Zero emissions: we don't use machines!  Our building sites are safe and fun for all ages (conventional building uses loud, dangerous machines that emit carbons and toxics both on-site and off)
  • Sand, clay and straw melt back into the earth when the building is abandoned (instead of multiple layers of plastic, glued chipboard, gyproc, toxic paints, etc.);
Picture
You can see the layers of plastic but likely not the particle board underneath...
Picture
All natural materials here: sand/clay/straw, wood beams, glass and cedar roofs...the solar panels and sun ovens use other materials but are also optional
  • Fast Cob! acts as a thermal mass: it can be passively heated by the sun, and wood stoves can be placed against the walls!  When the heat source stops, the walls then release heat maintaining a comfortable temperature.  In the summer heat, it naturally cools but literally sucking the heat out of the air (conventional buildings are typically heated by natural gas (CO2 and toxics) and electricity (which is created by burning gas, oil, or coal [CO2 and toxics] or dams [flooding/tranmission lines]; solar and wind can't keep up to such high-consumption use)
  • As long as a roof is maintained, Fast Cob! buildings will last 3 or more centuries (vs. decades at most for particle board buildings today).
Some form of Cob has been around for as long as humans have existed, but Fast Cob! is a brand new way of building that literally builds on these millennia of experience by making Natural Building easier and feasible for anyone who is physically able.  It is not only carbon-free, it's faster and easier than any other Natural Building technique.
 
And this year, we have at least 3 different opportunities for you to learn our
Fast Cob! technique:
  • June 25-July 2, 2016   *** Covering all the Basics: Mixes, Bricks, Design, Fun! ***
  • July/August, 2016  *** Kiddie Kob!  Family Fun making Cob, Jam, and Art  ***
  • August 13-20, 2016    *** Focusing on Finishing: Plasters, Paints, and Floors  ***
  • September 10-17, 2016   *** Learning to Live Off-the-Grid  ***
All workshops feature instruction in design, foundations, roofing, plumbing, electrical, installing doors and windows, and sourcing and testing building materials.

Warning: these workshops are filling up fast!

This year, we can offer real beds for those that don't want to camp in their own tent.  For a modest extra fee (camping in your own tent is included in our workshop package), you can choose between:
  1. our Guest Prospector Tent on a cedar platform with a Queen-sized bed, chest of drawers, and tarped in kitchen with running water, or
  2. our Guest Cob House with single or Queen bed that overlooks our luscious garden.
We limit each workshop to 6 active participants so you will get maximum exposure to our training and lots of space to create the body memory you'll need to take Fast Cob! anywhere you want to build.

Until midnight on March 31, 2016, you can enjoy any of our 6 day intensive Learn-to-Build-from-the-Ground-UP Fast Cob! workshops for only $675...that's 25% off our regular rate.

Please also note that women and families are especially encouraged to apply.  Fast Cob! is safe and fun for all ages, genders, and orientations.  Last year, our ages ranged from 9 to 68, while previous years saw 4, 6, and 8 year olds having the time of their lives.

Here is some more feedback from past workshop participants:

"Wonderful, challenging, thought-provoking, exhausting, delicious, green, delightful in every way."

"My experience at the workshop was empowering and a wonderful learning experience in natural building and collaboration."

"Instruction was excellent. Dave knows and lives cob and this is evident in his responses to questions posed by workshop attendees."

"You always had thoughtful and insightful answers to any of my questions...I liked how the pace was determined by the participants."

“It was empowering!  I really feel like in a short week like I can get going on building my own cob house!”

“Learning what we needed to know as we put it to practical use rather than spending a lot of time on theory was a useful approach for me.”


If you've been wanting to build your dream but don't want to go into debt or harm our planet any further, here's your chance to make that change!

Simply go to cob.lasqueti.ca/workshops and fill in the form at the bottom.  I'll be in touch soon to help you on your way...

Together, we can survive Climate Change...but let's not delay any longer!

You'll also find free online Fast Cob! training videos here...heck, you may not even need to take a workshop to get yourself building with ease and joy!  Let's spread the word so this planet doesn't burn us all up...
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Our Cob Village

    We'll try to keep you updated on all the latest activity here at Lasqueti's Cob Village...

    Categories

    All
    Carbon Free
    Cob
    Fast Cob!
    Lasqueti Island
    Natural Building
    Workshop

    Archives

    March 2019
    May 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    December 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    January 2013

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Fast Cob Natural Building...Workshops and Production Cob Contracting