Hi all, Greg Seelhorst asked me to post these: http://www.adobeasw.com/seelhorst/ The are the product of his masonry class in Burundi. We will have to get a...
Jim Harford
jharford@...
Mar 1, 2005 3:09 pm
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We're in southeast Ohio, land of the clay! http://www.bluerockstation.com ... From: Simone Swan [mailto:adobesim@...] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005...
Hello all, I just subscribed to this group after finding a message from it in the labyrinth of Google's archives. Thanks for putting the group together ...
Zack: I live in Tucson too and not too far from you. You idea sounds like what a lot of us want to do. And a lot of folks have done it. There are a lot of...
Mart Jakle
mjakle@...
Mar 6, 2005 5:36 pm
2695
love your letter. it is a treasure from the heart. not only do you not want a mortgage for a tacky house but you don't want to live in toxic materials...
Simone Swan
adobesim@...
Mar 6, 2005 7:21 pm
2696
I am getting ready to build an adobe home and I would like to bury temperature sensors in the walls. The walls will be 16" thick and I would like to bury a...
Mart Jakle
mjakle@...
Mar 6, 2005 8:39 pm
2697
Tell me simon, are your loan payments on the solar/wind electric system less than what you would expect line utility costs to be? Curious, Skylos...
Texas instruments makes a little solid state temperature sensor. In raw form looks kind of like an led - two wires and a little round end. You'll have to wire...
hi, i am student in my fanal year of degree in architecture and i have chosen the topic of an "eco-friendly resort" the site for the proposed(academic) project...
Quite a few companies have indoor/outdoor thermometers on the market for about $20 these days. Oregon Scientific and Radio Shack are two. The outdoor bulb is a...
Hi Everyone This is a suggestion to any adobe homebuilder with a very limited number of people. I got a friend of mine who built his adobe house all by himself...
This exercise is two-fold. First it will serve as a way to gather some perceptions of adobe. Just as important, the second function is to get practice in using...
Quentin, This may be a futile exercise. Everyone's mailer is different with different options. For those who are getting results they don't expect, look at the...
Sendetermine für "Städte aus Lehm"-Reihe auf ARTEGreetings, I am pleased to inform you that the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Proterra (a Research...
It is easy . . . Over the years the adobe group membership has nearly always shown civil and polite behavior. Why? Because, the vast majority of members...
aha! maybe i was busted here. the technique is called zabur. it is a technique similar to cob. earth and straw are moistened and mixed together to make a...
ronald rael
r@...
Mar 11, 2005 7:58 am
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its the student from india again... i am tryin to suggest a earth bermed structure, with adobe walls/ compressed earth blocks and a green roof of vaults and...
What if you use tires for the parts of the building that will be integrated into the landscape. Tires filled with dirt and pounded full until they weigh 350...
This has undoubtedly been asked/answered before, but my search skills are apparently not up to the task of finding the answer. I'm just getting into the whole...
That seems to be a good idea, and if it had worked on a project in ohio, it should work elsewhere... but i have to design a "ecofriendly-RESORT", so the point...
You could make the tires be the foundation by building 4 or 5 layers, cover in adobe with some cement mix added in to the dirt/sand/straw mix to create ...
thanks Annie, i guess that should be a good solution for the structural/asthectical problem. but is there any example of earth cooling tubes being used in a...
... Thanks, Mike. When I made the little "play" bricks as a test, I did see some cracking, though it seemed to be confined to the places where I didn't mix the...
I love your termite hill example! You are right though about the termites. As for humidity, I don't think the earth cooling tubes will decrease humidity, but...
Check with Fernco in Capitan NM http://www.ferncometal.com/permazyme.shtml Counties and the military are using this class of enzyme for "instant" roads. I have...
In a message dated 3/11/2005 10:34:26 AM Central Standard Time, robertk@... writes: Thanks, Mike. When I made the little "play" bricks as a test, I did...
... Wow! That's amazing! I hope you'll permit what is probably a stupid question... If you can put a brick underwater for an extended period like that, why...
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