Started "cobbing" 2,5 weeks ago. What a great experience!:-))) Hands and feet, mud, water and some rice straw and you are ready to build a wall. It is very satisfying, easy and basic and going along very well. And - as the Balinese would never miss a chance to make a joke - the job is a lot of fun and in times pure slapstick;-) I decided to build a garden hut first as our trial project. If everything runs well until the end - which I am pretty sure of by now:-) - I will go ahead with this technique for the other buildings as well. Great room climate which you can feel by now already, no single piece of steel, no concrete;-) Love it! What's next - the vetiver grass is drying in the sun to be used for the roof, I do some further research on a "recipe" for the plastering. The building and the vibes in it give me a very special, absolutely pleasant feeling:-)
Posted by Silvia at 11:48 PM Labels: Bali, cob building satyaB said...

Adventure! Lovely feeling to see the workers "play" with the building material. the Kid throwing the clay lumb up to the worker on the roof...
[null, {"document_url": "http://kalisada-eco-village.blogspot.com/2009/05/lets-get-dirty.html", "unformatted_src": "http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8fgW3mPtQlg/SghP_unERoI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/HKWQV6V7iCo/s200/Getting_higher.jpg", "src": "http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8fgW3mPtQlg/SghP_unERoI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/HKWQV6V7iCo/s200/Getting_higher.jpg", "formatted_filename": "Getting higher"}, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null]