Sunday, September 25, 2016

Chimney holes

Deciding to just avoid all possible hot chimney pipe exposure to the walls, I've added a cement board outer wall:

There's still a gap, so I put cement board all the way around as well:

and then added a little extra aluminium at the top for heat buffering. Can't hurt, right?

Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Rescued umbrella


Home grown umbrella pole attached to canvas umbrella rescued from the trash.  Creates great shade!

Design Mistakes in my cob house

So, I have long meant to create a list of mistakes I made when designing the finishings on our house.  Now that we've lived in it for a ...