I learned how to build a cob house! 🌎 | Natural Building | Ep.12

Hello everyone! It's been a whirlwind since I finished this course but my love of cob is still very relevant. I am so excited to share with work with you. I had a ton of fun in the workshop and really enjoyed reminiscing about the experience. The cob building has already changed so much since I left and it currently has a roof! Also many of the buildings on the property have been fully plastered. I would love to see how it's all transformed very soon. I hope you are all doing well. Sending my love.

Music:
Tea drop | Will Dickerson
Hello 6 am | Mylar Melodies
Moonrise | Reed Mathis
Renunciation | Asher Fulero
Sunrise in paris | Dan Henig
00:00 Introduction
01:54 Having a peak experience
03:25 Feeling a sense of community
05:07 Cob building process
06:37 It's hard work!
08:16 See you next time!

[cheflorenzo]

Loved your video. I'm 70 years old and retired. Had I known about cobb houses when I was your age, I'd be living in one. Keep up the great work.

[astraeavanderlinden]

What a lovely video of such a transformative experience. Watching this brings me right back there, I can feel the gravel stabbing my feet and the cool cob on my skin. :)

[helentc]

Great Video. I sure look forward to building myself a cob house one day. Accessible yes! Labour intensive yes! Oh well, Most typical modern day homes are NOT accessible, and it is certainly labour intensive to work for 45 years full time to pay a mortgage. Our Guvs have made it not even accessible with a 45 year mortgage for most people, so ultimately we have to find new (actually old) ways that are accessible. They may be trying to control the people, but it will just push us to find true ways that actually work and to leave their broken system behind. Be Well everyone!

[laurenthurlow]

I’m so in love with cob too 💕💕💕 what a beautiful video, thanks so much for making this 🥹

[theodorezook]

What a wonderful experience -- thanks so much for sharing it!

[Modelscoutingwd]

Bonjour from France, girl! Super nice voice wow, soothing. Cob, wow, love it. Was doing it, people telling me why dont you wear gloved? I was like because i am doing cob!

[LeeCowles]

I am Lee's wife, Leila. I was so surprised when I saw the artwork I created ( at my workshop) in your video. I attended the cob workshop at the Maggio place in July of 2020. Our group made the guest house, west of the main house. I asked to be able to add a bas-relief ( pronounced "baa-relief") image, and was told that would be fine. I had been thinking of the design for quite a while; I wanted it to be irises. It is the iris bas-relief next to the main door going into the guest house. After this one was done, Allie asked if I would add another bas- relief for the other side of the door. I sketched my ideas on my notepad over lunch time, and then added the second set of irises beside the door, immediately after that. Before I left the workshop, I told Chloe, that if the irises were ever painted, that the irises were purple.( As you know, the cob buildings at the Maggio's, are not usually plastered or painted, but I could hope.) I enjoyed the the workshop so very much. I would really like to go back and do more cob, and plastering(?) work there again. There is so much beauty to be found in cob building. It is very inspiring. And it is so enjoyable. Right?!

[jamesperson]

I am a Dallas, Texan 50 year old ex-firefighter, soccer player, and now Private Investigator, from a world of fighting and competing. I am unused to gentle sweet lambs like you. I could listen to your kind feminine voice all day. But I am moving out to the East Texas Piney woods and am going to build several cob houses, as well as pressed earth and pine log houses. I have a million free pine trees just awaiting for me. The soil is perfect I am even going to put a fancy tree house or 2 on the 30-acre property. I just cant wait to start. (BTW-I have a bachelors in History, and speak 2 languages. I Just mean to say that I am not a rough-and-tumble barbarian :) Thanks for the vid

[therehastobesomethingmoore]

I think part of the reason cob hasn’t caught on more is because it is associated with being a hippie….like a Woodstock thing.
I am retired and my wife and I are living in Guatemala currently. I don’t see cob here but we are surrounded by adobe, many of which are extremely old and have stood the test of time.
I have been interested in cob for decades and went to see a couple in North Carolina years ago.
We will be traveling for several years and have not yet decided on a country. My wife is not crazy about the idea but I think I can sell her on it as a weekend get away place, at least at first. 😃
Labor in Latin America is very inexpensive, so I can afford some help. Building codes are almost non existent, which makes that easy.
Love your videos !

[teresapealsstreetfoodz]

I love this I'm thinking of doing it myself...actually I know I am❤😊

[pablotapiafineart]

Hi… thanks for sharing your beautiful experience. I have a question if you don’t mind please … how do you attach the roof to the cob walls? If you are using a plate of some sort, still… how you attach the plate to the wall? Cheers 🙂

[umaanbu]

Hello dear .... Im from India.. I feel happy that I have spented 9 mins 15 secS in a useful way and may I know what are the things needed for plastering the walls

[DJ-ukmm]

Love it :-) I built so many houses as a child……Out of Lego.
I then built dens in the woods with my cousins no training no experience just intuitively we once built an entire maze of rooms and tunnels out of old wooden crates at the side of the factory it was waterproof and had secret hatches we spent days in that den and that was again as a child.All animals (and that includes humans, of course), instinctively know how to build a shelter however, this and the instinctive knowledge is removed via the education system. The materials to make Cob (or rammed earth. ) exist virtually everywhere on the planet or at least where people would want to live so why isn’t Cob building taught in every school along with growing vegetables? This is of course a rhetorical question as we know why don’t we :-) peace

[markiglesias]

Hi, what a great project you guys had going on it's wonderful! Where you guys located? My partner in one year old live in Phoenixville Pennsylvania. Have fun in all the best,
Mark

[foodievids]

I would love to do this! About how much does a workshop cost?

[markiglesias]

Hi Camille, hope you are well. Are you doing any cob lately?!

[ahumaneperspective]

How long does it take to build one cob building? How much does it cost?

[josephshaff]

If I'm VA how long will they give me to build.
Or you're probably not VA there is usually a limit and I can't do much of the work due to a hip injury.
Might be able to do some. So mine could take longer. They usually want it done in a certain time.

[sammyotten]

If a window/ bottle were to break, how would you go about fixing it, especially after it dried and cured

[bananapatch]

We are retiring to San Cristobal de las Casas in the mountains of Mexico. It is cool weather but a bit humid and has a rainy season. Is this a bad place to build a cob house ???
Thx !