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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration ST JUVAT MAY 2014 Photos log This demonstration action takes place on demonstration workshops Demonstration workshops description: Location: Rural city of St Juvat (22) Communal greenhouses Summary description: Understanding the construction of cob wall, wattle and daub partition and manufacture of compressed earth bricks. General Condition: Base to accommodate to cob wall Untreated wood frame wall the aim is to become dry toilets Earth brick drying pallet Work : Realisation of a 60cm high cob lift Make earth bricks Make an untreated wood frame (douglas) and fill it with wattle and daub (earth and straw) with untreated lathes (sweet chesnut)
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Photos logs of cob earth, waddle and daub and earth bricks - St Juvat May 2014

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Page 1: Photos logs of cob earth, waddle and daub and earth bricks - St Juvat May 2014

Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Photos log

This demonstration action takes place on demonstration workshops

Demonstration workshops description:

Location: Rural city of St Juvat (22)

Communal greenhouses

Summary description: Understanding the construction of cob wall, wattle and daub partition and

manufacture of compressed earth bricks.

General Condition:

Base to accommodate to cob wall

Untreated wood frame wall – the aim is to become dry toilets

Earth brick drying pallet

Work :

Realisation of a 60cm high cob lift

Make earth bricks

Make an untreated wood frame (douglas) and fill it with wattle and daub (earth and straw) with untreated

lathes (sweet chesnut)

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Prepare the base location for wood frame

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Laying the lower leveled strip « airtightness »

Assembly of the wood frame (douglas)

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Fixing the wood frame

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Checking the perpendicularity

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Hanging the first lath

Making the mixture for wattle and daub – Local earth and straw

Filling the wood frame with wattle and daub

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Progressively hanging lath

Fixing the mixture with a slap, covering – Earth coating before finishing plaster

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Sifting the earth

Humidification of the earth for the bricks

Filling the bricks machine

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Demoulding of the manufactured earth bricks

Drop off the bricks on a pallet to dry them

Coarse screening of building earth

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Cob, Earth Bricks, Wattle and Daub Demonstration

ST JUVAT MAY 2014

Making the mixture for the Cob lift– local earth and straw

Then cutting the mixture

Hanging the mixture with a fork

Cob mixing with feet