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Urbanite foundation (mostly) complete

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The foundation is now mostly complete with the addition of a third course on the west side of the building. The past few days have been spent trying to piece together [...]

Continuing work on urbanite foundation

Progress on the cob house has been continuing at a good clip. The second course of the foundation has been laid out. We started to run out of larger pieces of urbanite, and fell back on medium and smaller pieces, which I thought to be less than ideal. Unfortunately, the majority of the urbanite I [...]

First course of foundation complete

The first course of the foundation is now pretty much complete.
Unfortunately, I had nowhere near enough urbanite that I thought I needed, and I made another trip to collect more over the weekend. This second time I played it safe and filled the trailer about twice as much as the first go-round, hopefully insuring that [...]

Building the urbanite foundation

Two days ago, I went on a trip to collect urbanite (think broken up concrete from sidewalks and roadbeds) in a small town about twenty miles away. Thankfully, four willing folks offered their help in picking up the material. Urbanite is extremely heavy and you don’t want to move it more than you have to.
After [...]