Another way of building

[Rick]

Now I guess I have to add gargantuan Formosan termite migrations to the list. We need to hold the whole state underwater for about 30 minutes and clean some of that crap up.

[crashdive123]

Doesn't work. They are really bad in Louisiana. The thoughts following the flooding from Katrina were that it would greatly reduce the termite populations. Nope - didn't happen. In fact, bids went out to remove all of the city sized debris piles that were formed during clean up in the aftermath. Live termites were found in much of the debris. I don't remember how early it was caught, but all of the trees/mulch had to be treated to prevent the spread.

[Winter]

Can you do that? Maybe if all us fat guys gather there for a campout....


ETA-Oh, Crash beat to the "post" button.

[crashdive123]

The good news Rick.......I don't think they're above 35 degrees North latitude in the US.

[Rick]

Hang on. I'm drawing a red line on my map at 35 degrees. That's pretty cold, though.

[finallyME]

So Rick, no lightning in Indiana? And, I know for a fact, that there are old people in Indiana as well. just sayin.....

[WalkingTree]

I really like this type of structure of Wild Woman's. Don't know if you'll be around here lately, but I wanted to ask a question - Provided some kind of water-shedding stucco is used (like a cementized cob finish), do you think a cob mixture would work well as chink here? (cob - clay, sand, and straw. Whole buildings are made with it.)

[crashdive123]

Walking Tree...........she left the forum in 2012 after getting upset at what she called lack of compassion shown by forum members following a report of a bear mauling (newspaper report - nobody here knew the victim).

[WalkingTree]

Well darn. Hope the victim did alright.

I kind of always liked this building method though. And the idea of cob as chink (just for trying to use native materials more)...but don't know if that idea is a good idea. Maybe somebody else here will give some input on this.