I covered my roof with a pool liner and then put fishing net around it to hold the soil. Im going to spread wild flower seed on roof. Has anyone advice for the roof gutters. Is it best to just let water flow of or would putting drains be the best thing to do. I have around half meter of an over hang all around the roof

Greetings lords and ladies of the cobdom, I’ve just acquired a forest realm in Mexico, which will be the site for our cob dreams to come true. Have very little experience but excited to learn and am grateful to have this community resource to help me. Have been thinking about this for months so I have so many small and big questions such as what local wood am I going to use, how is my soil gonna be for cob, can I make my own stained glass windows without lead or solder, how much should I clear the forest around the cobins… The plan is to eventually have over 10 Cobins! And offer this place as a healing sanctuary to others. The building restrictions are way more relaxed here compared to the US and Europe so that’s helpful. Would love to hear from others what they’re planning/creating, no matter how small or big? Wish I could make this hobbit workshop as I’m close very close to Guatemala, hoping the hobbit house eventually becomes an online course. Good look on your adventures!

Hello everyone. Im delighted to be apart of the community. Im joining from ireland. The past couple of years ive been building a healing centre at the moment im building my first cob ceremony space from pallets. Im going to put a cob floor in also. Im just checking out soil at momenthoping its the correct clay.I've built a small swimming pool with sauna also. I plan to build 2 maybe 3 small hobit houses from cob next

Here’s a little video showing how I make a clay paint to go over a cob wall. It’s a mixture of equal parts, flour paste or methyl cellulose which I get from Gold hill Clay plaster, very fine 70 grit sand and sifted Clay from on site. I added a little bit of Mica to give it a sparkle and a little bit of a Gold hill clay plaster as well to give it a lighter color. I paint this on pretty thick and then use a yogurt lid to smooth it out. This will give it a nice color and help to shed water off the wall. If the structure has a big enough overhang, this could be applied on the outside of a cobin as well as the inside. It can also be sealed with linseed oil and some sort of thinner like mineral spirits to ensure that it will be waterproof.