Looks like you're doing a great job! Thanks for sharing the photies.
So you put them up all in one go in the space of eight days. You say that in the oldern days the walls woudl go up 18 inches every two weeks to allow drying... do you think your building suffered for not having allowed drying time?
"the grass they had eaten previously" - ha ha, lovely polite way of saying horse shit!
Yea that's part of the problem and because it was raining, the moisture in the air didn't help. Also we were all just learning so some cobb was too wet....
In a worshop setting where you only have 8 days to build it can be difficult not to rush. We lit a couple fires in the middle of the building after lass on some eveningsbto help the drying. It helped a lot!
Thanks for the horse shit.... I was hoping what I said would translate!
If you did it again would you go for staggering the build to allow gradual drying do you think??
Yes I think I would. While it takes more effort to support the walls if you build like we did, in the long run I think it still works (you know once it's completely dryed).
Thanks!