{"id":45,"date":"2015-02-08T03:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T03:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2016-01-03T06:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T06:55:48","slug":"a-roof","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/how-to-build\/a-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"A roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cob is a natural product made of clay, straw and sand. \u00a0As such it can be prone to the elements. \u00a0 \u00a0 It&#8217;s optional whether you protect your Cob Oven from rain, hail, snow etc &#8211; but be prepared that if it gets wet &#8211; it can rot, break, crumble. \u00a0 \u00a0We would highly advise to build some sort of protection over your oven as soon as you can. \u00a0We put our roof over half way through the building process. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For our roof it is a simple four hardware posts cemented into the ground and topped with an angled corrugated tin roof &#8211; a lip over the front allows you to mildly keep dry if cooking in the rain. \u00a0The chimney poke out through it. \u00a0 \u00a0 (that was a bit tricky as we created a hole &#8211; but needed to seal it up to allow no rain to run down it onto the cob. \u00a0 Google searching on how to install flues in roofs will lead you in the right direction of the materials you need to do that).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/how-to-build\/the-chimney\/img_1178-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-822\" src=\"http:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1178-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1178-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/how-to-build\/a-roof\/img_0955\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-828\" src=\"http:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0955-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0955\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/how-to-build\/a-roof\/img_3762\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-829\" src=\"http:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_3762-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3762\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cob is a natural product made of clay, straw and sand. \u00a0As such it can be prone to the elements. \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appliedecology.com.au\/coboven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}