Justin, Can you tell us more about the state of adobe construction in Ireland? I have been thinking about visiting a part of England to learn and practice some...
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John Norton
devworksfrance
Nov 2, 2006 12:58 pm
Justin, Just to note that there will be no chemical bond between cement and earth, so gravity plus and roughness/nails are the only things that will keep the ...
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harlanre@...
harlanre
Nov 2, 2006 3:34 pm
Hi all This is very interesting. How do you seal the adobe mud floor? Or does it just dry and seal itself? Also, if anyone has suggestions for how to fix...
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justin thomas
tullamoy1966
Nov 2, 2006 8:56 pm
Thanks for all your messages. Kurt I'm not sure how much adobe/earthen construction is going on in Ireland. A few strawbale houses have been built and I...
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Stephen
adobeverde
Nov 4, 2006 2:57 am
I'm no expert on adobe floors. Mine was 4" on heating pipe coils on 6x6 remesh on 1" blue foam. I did not know that I needed a finish slurry of finer (more...
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 14, 2006 1:32 am
On the plane back from Rio, for some reason we had to look at Martha Stewart put some plucked chickens in a wood smokehouse. Smoke poured out from between the...
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 14, 2006 1:46 am
With all you dang smart people on the adobe list who have computer and internet skills, how come nobody ever told me about this: ...
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Liza Macrae
lizamacrae
Nov 14, 2006 4:07 am
I'm in the planning stages of a small adobe house south of Santa Fe, and am wondering about digging a trench and filling it with compacted rubble as my...
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mudcrafter
Nov 14, 2006 4:33 am
Hello Quentin and Company, I'm located in Sedona, Arizona. I'd very much be interested in discussing the adobe project in Showlow. I make adobes and am a ...
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rob10171228
Nov 14, 2006 6:13 am
hello anyone know of a fixxer upper in tx az or nm ,,thanks let me know bob...
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Stephen
adobeverde
Nov 14, 2006 6:16 am
Hi, I used a "rubble trench" foundation on my dome. It weighed 50 tons on a 20 x 20 footprint. The design is used in wet areas to keep the ground from...
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davidnew23
Nov 14, 2006 2:40 pm
I'm at the course in my walls where I want to put in the metal electrical receptacle boxes. The walls will be left unplastered. Should I use the less common...
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Sat Guru
satguru@...
Nov 14, 2006 4:18 pm
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 14, 2006 8:36 pm
I agree with Stephen that the rubble trench will work just fine. I recommend that it be 8-inches deep and 4-inches wider on each side than the adobe wall it...
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Kurt Gardella & Conni...
connikurt@...
Nov 14, 2006 9:14 pm
I think it would be a great to pursue this idea and approach some architects in Santa Fe about this. It seems like such a simple and low-cost foundation...
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 14, 2006 9:15 pm
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tim
timoteo1951
Nov 15, 2006 3:45 pm
David On exposed walls with 1" mortar joints I've had good results nailing metal boxes to 1x4 that I treated with wood preservative. The length of the 1x4 ...
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Charles Tuck
chucktuck_2000
Nov 15, 2006 9:14 pm
Quentin, I seem to recall from classes with Joe Tibbets that Frank Lloyd Wright recommended a French drain to carry water away from the rubble trench...
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 15, 2006 11:29 pm
... Not normally. ... If your site cannot percolate water downward, gravel might not be the route to pursue. Most of FLW's gravel/grade beam foundations were...
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lizamacrae
Nov 16, 2006 1:47 am
I would think I'd want to allow water in the trench to run off, even in relatively permeable soil. The rubble filled trench is a good vehicle for the water,...
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butopia@...
butopia2003
Nov 16, 2006 3:50 am
Another possibility might be to build "desert rubble" a la Taliesin West style, as the grade beam/stem wall on the gravel, with or without a PVC drainpipe at...
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Kurt Gardella & Conni...
connikurt@...
Nov 16, 2006 7:51 am
Cornerstone's new book "Adobe Conservation: A Preservation Handbook" has a chapter (pp. 85-90) on installing a sub-surface drainage system very similar to the...
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John Norton
devworksfrance
Nov 16, 2006 9:34 am
On ensuring that no water is moving towards the walls, in West Africa DW successfully uses this detail with compacted earth at the base of walls to ensure...
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 22, 2006 10:40 pm
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 22, 2006 11:04 pm
Call for Papers and Conference Announcement AdobeUSA 2007 May 18, 19 and 20, 2007 The 4th Adobe Conference of the Adobe Association of the Southwest: AdobeUSA...
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 22, 2006 11:07 pm
Call for Papers and Conference Announcement AdobeUSA 2007 May 18, 19 and 20, 2007 The 4th Adobe Conference of the Adobe Association of the Southwest: AdobeUSA...
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Quentin Wilson
Quentin87539
Nov 27, 2006 11:41 pm
Call for Papers and Conference Announcement AdobeUSA 2007 May 18, 19 and 20, 2007 The 4th Adobe Conference of the Adobe Association of the Southwest: AdobeUSA...
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jmirsadeghi@...
Nov 29, 2006 1:57 pm
Hello everyone, I just saw the most beautiful black-white images of vernacular architecture, they moved me almost to tears... just wanted to share this with...
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George Drum
pluginpony
Dec 2, 2006 2:19 am
I am in the process of building a "room" into the side of a mountain. The area we will be using is really an accumulation of material that has washed off the...
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Jimmy & Monique Ortega
jimmyjortega24
Dec 3, 2006 3:27 am
Wow where are you doing this and are you getting an engineer to over see this project? Whats up with the bats? Me and my husband have wanted to build in to...
