ATOCI: Cottage Building in Cob, Pise, Chalk, and Clay [CBCPCC]

INDEX TO COTTAGE BUILDING.

INTRODUCTION. XX
GENERAL SURVEY. 26
I. COB. 33
II. PISE. 57
III. CHALK.93
IV. UNBURNED CLAY AND EARTH BRICKS. 107
APPENDIX. 113
INDEX. 123


INDEX

Introduction: Chalk walls, 13
Introduction: Cheap materials, the search for, 13
Introduction: Pise de craie, 16, 17, 93
Introduction: Pise, experiments with, 15 ;
Introduction: Pise, in moulds, 19, 220;
Introduction: Pise, in South Africa, 22, 23
Introduction: Pliny on Pise de terre, 25
Introduction: Rammed chalk, x6, 17, 43

General Survey: Building materials, shortage of. 26
General Survey: "Ersatz" products introducing during the War, 26
General Survey: House famine, the, 27
General Survey: Local materials, use of, to avoid transport, 29
General Survey: Lutyens, Sir Edwin, and Mr, Alban Scott, cottage by, 30
General Survey: Rural housing, suitability of cob and pise for, 28

I - COB
Cob: Allen, Mr. C, B., his reference to
Cob: Devon cob, quoted, 47
Cob: Baring-Gould, Rev, S., on cob, quoted, 47
Cob: Beauty of cob, 35
Cob: Bernard, Tor, Charles, his account of Sir Walter Raleigh's cob house, 45, 46
Cob: Boob of the West, The, by Rev. S. Baring-Gould, reference to cob in, quoted, 47
Cob: Building, 37, 38, 39
Cob: Carpentry ad 41, 42 br> < Cob: Chimneys, 44
Cob: Cob tradition, 52
Cob: Composition, 36
Cob: Cost, 35, 50COB—Continued!
Cob: Cottage-Building, reference to cot in, quoted, 47
Cob: Country Life, letter to, relating to cob work, quoted, II8u, xig
Cob: Design, 44, 45
Cob: Devon cob, 47
Cob: Lying, 39
Cob: Elizabethan cob houses still existing, 34
Cob: Former conditions returned, 52
Cob: Foundations and base, 40
Cob: Foundations, result of bad, 34
Cob: Fruit wails, of cob, 47, 48
Cob: Fulford, Mr, of Great Fulford, 35
Cob: Gimson, Mr., his description of building cob, quoted, 35
Cob: Hayes Barton, Sir Walter Raleigh's house at, 45, 46
Cob: Hipped roofs, 41
Cob: Joinery, 41, 42, 43
Cob: Masonry and carpentry, 41, 42
Cob: Method of building, 36-45
Cob: Mixing, 37
Cob: Northcote, Lady Rosalind, her description of Sir Walter Raleigh's house, 46
Cob: Primitive methods, 46
Cob: Protection, 43
Cob: Protective wash, 51
Cob: Raleigh, Sir Walter, his cob house at Hayes Barton, 45, 46
Cob: Rats, 44
Cob: Reed thatch, 46
Cob: Rendering, 51
Cob: Roofing, 51
Cob: Shuttering, 3'
Cob: Strength, 44
Cob: Thickness of walls, 40
Cob: Traditional building material in Devon and Wessex, 33
Cob: Training of ex-soldiers, 52
Pise, Bolts, 86
Pise, Bonders, 6g
Pise, Building procedure, 71, 72, 74, 75
Pise, Capabilities, 57, 58
Pise, Corners, 68
Pise, Eyclopccdia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Scienes, and Literature, on pise, quoted, 59-71
Pise, Damp Course. 86
Pise, Definition of Pise de terre, 57,
Pise, Durability, 82
Pise, Earthwork, A .Manual on, quoted, 73-76
Pise, Empandeni, pile work executed at, 78, 79, 8o
Pise, Excavation, 86
Pise, Etah jail, piss work executed at, 76, 77, 78
Pise, Fillet, 87
Pise, Floating, 86
Pise, Foundations, 74
Pise, Frames, 87
Pise, France, introduction of pise into, 57
Pise, Gorffon, Monsieur, reference to his treatise on pise, 57 ,_
Pise, History, 57
Pise, Indian and Colonial practice, 73, 88
Pise, Introduced into France by the Romans, 57
Pise, Journal de Physique, by the Abbe Rozier, quoted, 58
Pise, Lintels, 87
Pise, Locale, 58
Pise, Method of building, 58-62
Pise, Method of working, 6o, 61, 62
Pise, New South Wales, pise work in, 81-88
Pise, Origin, 58
Pise, Picture-rail, 8
Pise, Plant required, 85, 89, 90
Pise, Plastering, 75
Pise, Pliny, references to his account of pise, 25, 57
Pise, Plugs, 86, 87
Pise, Protection, 75
Pise, Rain, 67
Pise, Rammer, the, 59, 60
Pise, Ramming, 62, 76
Pise, Rate of work, 63
Pise, Rendering, 7o
Pise, Rods versus bars, 75, 76
Pise, Rozier, the Abbe, his Journal de Physique, quoted, 58
Pise, Shuttering, 59, 88, 89
Pise, Shutter ties, 73
Pise, Skirting, 87
Pise, Soil blending, 64;
Pise, Soil, preparation of, 66, 67
Pise, Soil, suitable, 63, 74, 85;
Pise, Soil, tests, 6;
Pise, Soil, to ascertain quality of, 65
Pise, Speed of building, 7o
Pise, Stability, 82
Pise, Strength, 69
Pise, Studding, 87, 88
Pise, Theory and science of pise, the, 62-73
Pise, Ventilators, 86
Pise, Virtues of piss, 72
Pise, Wire netting, use of, 87, 88
Chalk. Lock chalk, 103, 104
Chalk, compost, historical, 93;
Chalk, compost, composition and uses, 91, 95
Chalk, conglomerate, 100
Chalk, Chimneys, 96
Chalk, External rendering, 96
Chalk, Frost, 95
Chalk, Garden wa11s, 97
Chalk, House walls, 98
Chalk, Old and modern examples, 98-101
Chalk, Rats and chalk, 102
Chalk, Rendering, 96
Chalk, Repairs, 96
Chalk, Roof, 97
Chalk, Strength, 96
Chalk, Timber, 95
Chalk, Winterslow cottages, the, 101, 102
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, "Adobe," use of, in New South Wales, 110, 111
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, Age of clay-lump buildings, 110
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, East Anglia, use of sun-dried bricks in, 107
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, Method of making, 207
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, New South Wales, use of sun-dried bricks in, 110, 111
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, Skipper, Mr., on sun-dried bricks, quoted, I07-io9
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, Strength of clay-lump walls, 110
Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks, Thickness of clay-lump walls, 108, 110
Appendix. Cold water paint, recipe for. 115
Appendix, Cost, an analysis of building. 117
Appendix, Country Life, letter to, relating to cob work, quoted, 118, 119
Appendix, Distempers, recipes for. 115
Appendix, Local Materials, importance of using. 116, 117
Appendix, Weight of building materials, table of, 116
Appendix, Whitewash, recipes for 113, 114