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09-06-2004, 06:59 PM
Victoria Clare
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Log cabins
(Nick Maclaren) wrote in
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Boggle. Not a technology that is terribly well suited to the UK!
But the ingredients are certainly cheap (at source).
I'm not sure why log cabins are particularly unsuitable in the UK?
In Devon we have a tradition of houses that are politely described as
'thatched cob cottages' - if they were somewhere hotter, I reckon that
would translate to 'grass roofed mud hut'.
Tradition or no tradition, mud is a silly building material - a little
neglect, and they just wash away in the rain. Compared with that, timber
seems like quite a sensible building material.
Up the lane from me, there is a bungalow built entirely of wood, which I
understand is about 20 years old. I wouldn't call it a thing of beauty,
but it seems reasonably robust.
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