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Analyse terre : Investigations rapides. Mesurer un taux d'argile pour des enduits terre. Le bon taux !! Torchis, pisé, enduits terre et chaux.... Les anciens se servaient de la terre, matériau à moindre coût qui les environnaient, pour construire, bâtir et isoler. Ses qualités d'inertie thermique sont indéniables surtout associées à des fibres. De nos jours, en restauration du bâti ancien, son retour se justifie tant pour ses qualités et son adéquation aux matéraiux d'origine que pour l'économie en matériaux qu'elle permet. L'idéal pour se servir de la terre comme liant, c'est qu'elle soit argileuse à 30%. Elle sert alors telle quelle dans tous les mortiers (voir la fiche rejointoyer à pierres vues, enduit traditionnel à la chaux, torchis , terre copeau ) .

Pour être au clair avec le taux d'argile dans la la terre dont on dispose, rien de tel qu'un test simple. Le test Le sable se dépose tout doucement au fond du pot assez rapidement. Utilisation A environ 30%, elle est pratiquement "prête à l'emploi" à titre de liant. Construire avec Cob. The RIC Good Wood Guide ­ Sculpt your own House by Ianto Evans - reprinted from Permaculture International Journal, March '95 Contents at a Glance.. Introduction Standing Strong in the Rain Earthquakes? Elegant Climate Control How Fast can You Build? Materials A Cob Cottage for $500 Why Bother? Introduction Cob is one of many methods for building with raw earth. Working with cob is a sensory and aesthetic experience similar to sculpting with clay. With the soaring price of timber and increasing interest in natural and environmentally-safe building practices, cob is enjoying a renaissance.

Once the basics are understood, cob building is amazingly simple. Cob workshops should include other information that you will need: site-selection, foundations, windows and doors, attachment of wood and other materials, detail work and finishing. Standing Strong in the Rain Cob is highly resistant to weathering.

Earthquakes? Elegant Climate Control How Fast can You Build? Materials A Cob Cottage for $500 Why Bother? Comment faire un four boue arrière-cour. Pas cher, amusant, et fait une pizza Qualtity professionnel! Making a backyard mud or clay oven is a great family project, and once completed, you will be able to make fantastic hearth breads, and professional quality pizza. A mud oven is a wood burning oven, which used the residual heat from the firing to cook with. A basic backyard oven can be made for next to nothing, and will be a very satisfying project for the whole family.

There will be lots of mud and squishing and stuff; and kids will definitely enjoy the process. A cob or clay oven is vastly superior to your conventional oven for pizzas and bread. The massive radiant heat that is stored in thick mud walls will deliver deep crusts to your bread, and you can keep a live fire going to make fantastic pizzas in about 3 minutes! You can never get your home oven hot enough to really make a great pizza, but your wood fire mud oven can get seriously hot.

The steps as follows are a pretty basic guide, and if you get inspired, you can visit the links at the bottom the page for more information. Faire Cob. Cob St-Ambroise | Constructions Écologiques.