INTRODUCTION 11
[The Search for Cheap Material -- Experiments with
"Pise" -- Rammed Chalk, "Pise de Craie" -- Pise in
Moulds -- Cob and Chalk -- Pise--a South African
Lead -- The Discovery of the Old]
GENERAL SURVEY 26
[The House Famine -- Local Materials]
I. COB 33
[The Beauty of Cob -- Method of Building --
Implements -- Walls and Roofs -- Protection --
Raleigh's House -- Mr. Baring-Gould -- Old Cob Lore
-- Mr. Fulford's Evidence -- A Champion of Cob]
II. PISE DE TERRE 57
[Method of Building -- The Ramming -- Suitable Soils
-- Experiments -- Preparation of the Earth -- The
Strength of Pise -- A Pise Church -- Indian and
Colonial Practice -- Plastering -- The Right
Quantity of Water -- Pise Buildings at Empandeni --
Pise Buildings for Settlers -- Builders' Aversions
-- Number of Men Required -- Pise in New Zealand --
Pise Shuttering -- If Reason Rule -- The Newlands
Specification -- A Swedish Contribution --
A Pise-Builder's School -- Alternative Shutterings
-- South Africa -- Soils]
III. CHALK 107
[Winter Work Barred -- Garden Walls -- Cost of Three
Cottages -- Expensive Scaffolding Avoided -- Block
Chalk]
IV. UNBURNED CLAY AND EARTH BRICKS 121
[Use for Unskilled Labour -- "Substantial and Cool"]
APPENDIX 127
[Distempers and Limewashes -- Local Materials --
Cost per Foot Cube -- Pise Tests]