Building with Mud

Muddypause · Fri May 05, 2006 9:36 pm

Bats, I must've missed the photos of your place when you posted them up ^ there in the thread. Marvelous looking place.

Have you got a blog or a website of the build?

Batfink · Post: # 19186Post **Batfink** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:44 pm

Regretably not - it started way back in 1996 - before Al Gore invented the internet! I'll try and get all my photos scanned in (yes, they were all 35mm - none of this digital stuff!) and uploaded to an online gallery at some stage.

Boots · Post: # 22140Post **Boots** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:59 am

Bittova update...

This is the inside of the side wall. Picked up the door for 5 bucks and the wood is all recycled from around the farm. The top row hasn't been sealed in this shot... but has since been done. Took some shots this morning but the light streamed in the windows and all you could see was the view!

This is the same wall from the outside... Window cost $2 and all are yet to be painted. The bricks haven't been sealed either, but all gaps are now filled, I think. Have painted the door and window on the inside.

This is the front, with the two big safe doors I got for free from the bank at the oldest town in Australia. (I just love that bit of history!) They had a series of locks and bars on the window that have all been taken off. Had planned on sanding them back and staining them brown, but 3 weeks of sanding changed my mind and they ended up this colour... The glass needs replacing... am keeping an eye out for that.

The Chili Monster · Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:23 am

That's looking great, Boots.

Is that Zara I see in the photo?

Boots · Post: # 22152Post **Boots** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:02 am

Yes, that is Zara girl...She has just lost half of her courtyard...lol

Doesn't look real impressed, does she?

You would be surprised how many pics I have with her head in the corner! She always sneaks into the shot.

Wombat · Post: # 22162Post **Wombat** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:43 am

Looks spot-on Boots! Well done!

Nev

Muddypause · Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:57 pm

Well done, Boots.

Boots · Post: # 22218Post **Boots** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:05 pm

Now I just have to fill that top bit and get on with the other end. Have 70 bricks ready to go this weekend, so it all starts again...

Heaps happy with it but. *two thumbs up and does a happy dance*

hedgewizard · Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:56 pm

Wow! Well done!

ina · Post: # 22287Post **ina** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:53 am

Brilliant! Actually, I rather like the colour of your doors...

Boots · Post: # 22341Post **Boots** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:54 pm

mmm. You do? Am still not sure, as it isn't what I had pictured, at all. I guess it will grow on me.

Batfink · Post: # 22639Post **Batfink** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:34 pm

That looks bonza! Nice work!

I think we're about to kick off the cobbing again soon - we're building a cob wall around the garden, a generator shed and - if all goes to plan - a cob oven/BBQ thing. I've been told that the BBQ is the final job to be done, although I suspect it'll happen first off!!!

Boots · Post: # 22642Post **Boots** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:48 pm

Ah, yes - have seen those cob ovens. Pretty cool.

It has been raining here this arvo/evening/night, and I keep going out to see how the walls are holding up. No sign of any leak so far. Keeping fingers crossed. Sealed the outside with one coat of linseed and turps and then a heavy coat of straight linseed. Tis looking good...

Hope no water comes in because I have a heck of a lot of dirt inside the room, and could end up with a mud floor too

Wombat · Post: # 22698Post **Wombat** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:15 am

I'm still working on our cob oven, it is coming along but I think I will be running out of clay - must get some more!

Nev

Millymollymandy · Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:39 pm

That's amazing Boots! Well done

Is it an extension of your house, or a separate building? And what is it going to be used for? And just out of interest did you have to get planning permission or can you just build stuff like that in Australia?