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=== Prep Work === The first task in actually finishing the wall was to prepare it to be coated. Here again Pennelys Goodshield provided expert advice, informing me that the [[wattle and daub]] section of the wall needed to be filed in with more [[cob]]. Cob might be a more exacting mixture in certain circumstances but for our purposes the '''cob recipe''' was simply to smother a handful of straw in a heavier than normal ''clay slip ''[Recipe in Part 1 under Materials], instead of heavy cream consistency here we are going for a thicker mud consistency. First moisten the surface to be coated to prevent it from sucking moisture out of the cob, increasing the likelihood of cracking. We'll use water for this purpose for all these materials.<ref>Pennelys Goodshield</ref> Then, surface damp, a handful at a time you shove the cob into any loose or open spots in the wall. Eventually, you want to be able to poke the wall at any point and feel little to no give. Having already applied large amounts of cob while Myles initially built the wall, I'd guess-timate that we nearly doubled the amount. When finished the wall was rock solid and massive. It also occurred to me, that this would be the part of the job painting where I might use caulking or spackle to fill cracks between surfaces or around the edges, for instance, as appeared between either side of the wall and the wood posts on either end. The trick I devised to do this appropriately was to coat single pieces of straw in heavy slip, or a few twisted together, and lay them in the cracks between wood post and wall like a line of caulking. This seemed to work well on the spot and I can only wonder how well it worked over time. The other thing I did at this point was to get out a hack saw and take off parts of the paper-crete brick which stuck out particularly far, which there were a handful. [[File:CCAT natural Plaster; finished wall front, side view of post.jpg|thumb|A finished shot to show how well the caulking technique worked. Note how seamless the edges are; a little slower than normal caulk but it sure worked. The lime putty sealer around the window sure worked well too; no more bugs!]]
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