farmer builds "cob" house for £150.

[bigpaul]

wow .. are you watching africa? now thats wnat i call a mud hut!

I expect your too young to know about these sorts of things! cob is an ancient building material used in many rural parts of England(especially the south west).

[Midnitemo]

if only i were to young...tis pretty much the same stuff great swathes of africa built huts with...and we generically called them mud huts even though many weren't

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theres not much new in the world

[bigpaul]

if only i were to young...tis pretty much the same stuff great swathes of africa built huts with...and we generically called them mud huts even though many weren't

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theres not much new in the world

that's the whole point, nothing new about it, its a very old technology.

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"back in the day" people used what was LOCALLY available, if you lived where there was lots of stone you built your house of stone, in a wooded area you built a wooden house, well down here there was plenty of earth, straw and dung so the houses were built of that, there was also plenty of thatching material( no longer so-its all imported now).

[Talon]

Saw this on the news the other day.Great stuff.

[bigpaul]

it was in the Daily Express today.

[Carnebwen]

House I grew up in was cob. Walls were about 80cm thick and none of our units ever pushed flush up against the walls because of the uneven nature of the wall. But it had character. (And two fire places).

[bigpaul]

I spent a few years living in a stone cottage on Dartmoor( ex miners cottage) walls were about 3 feet thick.