The aim of the booklet: Cob Buildings - A Practical Guide is to make the care, repair and maintenance of earth buildings much easier to understand, and also to encourage people to use earth as a material for new structures. We hope that it will be a useful partner to 'Lime in Building - A Practical Guide' as in many ways a knowledge of both lime and earth go hand iin hand. Most of the failures and problems that earth buildings suffer as a result of the use of inappropriate renders, plasters and paints where lime would have been more suitable.

If you care for a cob house or cob barn, or are thinking about building in cob, then this book will show you how to plan and carry out effective and environmentally friendly work.

. An essential handbook for anyone involved with cob.
. Advice on choosing soils with easy 'rule of thumb' field tests.
. How to mix and build with cob.
. Looking after an existing cob building.
. A guide to further reading.
. A list of useful people and organisations.

Contents: Introduction; The Cob Cycle; Building with Earth (cob, clay lump/adobe, wattle and daub, mud and stud, rammed earth or pise, stablized earth); Your Cob House, Getting Started; Tools and Equipment; Materials; Mixing; Building; Troubleshooting; Repairs; Completing; Wall Surfaces good and bad; Useful information.