Cob Workshops
Cob Your Yard - Oven Build
Learn the skills along side you friends, family, or neighbours while W.E. Cob helps you build an oven in your own yard!
W.E. Cob are commited to guiding you through the entire process, including:
What you will get:
W.E. Cob are commited to guiding you through the entire process, including:
- sizing the oven for your needs
- Locating the best place for an oven in your yard
- artistic design and inspiration
- being by your side as you create your own cob oven to enjoy for many years to come!
What you will get:
- Applicable knowledge and skills in building with cob
- Experienced guidance and instruction all throughout the process
- A functional and unique cob oven in your yard
- Instruction and guidance in how to use the oven
- A ‘first-fire pizza party topping-luck’! If you’d like, W.E. Cob will come back when the oven is ready and help celebrate the first use of your new cob oven in style. This will be your chance to learn how to properly use the oven and gain the confidence to fire it up on your own.
Sourcing Materials:
W.E. Cob provides the materials needed for the cob oven itself, but the foundation is different. Because the foundations materials will be based on personal preference and budget, we cannot set a price for this. W.E. Cob can source, then either dig, gather, or purchase, the materials as needed, but will have to charge for our time and fuel. Or, you can do it yourself with our guidance and support, at little to no cost beyond fuel and time.
Cost of the Ovens, including rocket stove:
Sharing is Caring! Share this cost with the helpers if you need the financial support! Everyone who helps will walk away with the skills needed to build an oven of there own, and will likely benefit their bellies with the creation of your oven as well! This sharing concept can help to deal with the cost and potentially reduce your personal cost to very little
W.E. Cob provides the materials needed for the cob oven itself, but the foundation is different. Because the foundations materials will be based on personal preference and budget, we cannot set a price for this. W.E. Cob can source, then either dig, gather, or purchase, the materials as needed, but will have to charge for our time and fuel. Or, you can do it yourself with our guidance and support, at little to no cost beyond fuel and time.
Cost of the Ovens, including rocket stove:
- 30cm Interior: $400.00 plus materials.
- 45cm Interior: $500.00 plus materials.
- 60cm Interior: $600.00 plus materials.
Sharing is Caring! Share this cost with the helpers if you need the financial support! Everyone who helps will walk away with the skills needed to build an oven of there own, and will likely benefit their bellies with the creation of your oven as well! This sharing concept can help to deal with the cost and potentially reduce your personal cost to very little
2 Half-days Oven Building Workshop
Join W.E. Cob for a 2 half-days oven building workshop where you will get experience on every step of building a cob oven. This includes the base, dome, door, final plaster, and rocket stove.
The cost of the weekend is $50 per day, per participant. **If you can’t afford the cost, please contact us for options. We want everyone to be able to learn.
Day 1 learning and working includes:
Day 2 learning and working includes:
The cost of the weekend is $50 per day, per participant. **If you can’t afford the cost, please contact us for options. We want everyone to be able to learn.
Day 1 learning and working includes:
- Mixing cob while learning the properties and techniques of a good mix.
- Filling the base with cob and insulative materials.
- Building the sand mold for the dome and first layer of the cob oven.
- Beginning construction of the rocket stove while learning the basic physics and concepts behind it.
Day 2 learning and working includes:
- Building the second layer on the oven.
- Cutting out the door and removing the sand.
- Finishing and connecting the rocket stove to the oven.
- Applying a final plaster.
- Enjoying a make-your-own pizza party to celebrate!