<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for this link on failed cob.<div><br></div><div>tis the reason I insist on good roof overhangs for earth - and straw - buildings</div><div><br></div><div>We have just had an extended period of incredibly high winds along with very heavy rains - enough to test the stoutest plaster system that does not also have the benefit of good rain deflection built in to the design.</div><div><br></div><div><div>I now tell my clients they have several choices in site exposed to wind driven rain. They can either put the roof out horizontally, or they can put it down vertically - or else they build out of something else.</div><div>If they put on a rain screen cladding - a type of vertical roof - then they do not need much in the way of roof overhangs at all.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
Graeme <br>Graeme North Architects<br>49 Matthew Road<br>RD1<br>Warkworth 0981</div><div>New Zealand</div><div><br>tel/fax +64 (0)9 4259305<br><br><a href="http://www.ecodesign.co.nz">www.ecodesign.co.nz</a><br><br><br><br>
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<br><div><div>On 22/07/2014, at 4:31 AM, Matts Myhrman <<a href="mailto:mattsmy@gmail.com">mattsmy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Must have been eating too much of the fermented corn on the cob.<br><div><br><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-25689764" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-25689764</a></div>
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