... Q says: the foundation will do just fine out there in the weather if the mortar between the CMU's (concrete masonry units, aka concrete or pumice blocks)...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
May 7, 1999 11:55 pm
... IT IS WORTHWHILE TO INSULATE ANY FOUNDATION IF A BUILDING IS TO BE HEATED. OTHERWISE IT'S ONLY USEFUL FOR PRACTICING THE TECHNIQUE. IT TURNS OUT THAT MANY...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
May 8, 1999 1:04 am
... 1. It's not really that cheap. Wall costs are only about 7 to 11% of the total house construction budget. 2. not a local product. has to be imported from...
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dschreib@xxxxxxx.xxxx...
dschreib@xxxxxxx.xxxx...
May 8, 1999 3:00 am
Rodentia and their predators, snakes, love straw bales. If it takes you a day to put up straw walls you will have mice eating their way in, and then they will...
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Sam Gray
samgray@xxxx.xxxx
May 10, 1999 6:44 pm
Quinten: Great job! And, we still have 6 reasons to look forward to. Another to consider: Adobe will stop a bullet. Not too sure about strawbale. sam, on...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
May 12, 1999 11:48 pm
Reasons not to build with strawbale: 32. Mice and snakes like straw as a place to hide out says David. Quentin has seen moths through the "truth windows" that...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
May 14, 1999 11:51 pm
35. Strawbale construction should not be used for Habitat for Humanity or other low income projects. Not just yet, anyway. No one knows how the market will...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
May 24, 1999 11:02 pm
... No sealer is needed. If you paint interior walls it provides all the sealing function you could want. Any latex paint will do although I prefer an oil ...
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Sam Gray
samgray@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 1, 1999 5:30 pm
1X6 rough sawn lumber over round vigas sitting on a concrete bond beam: how are the ends of the 1X6s attached? i was thinking of running the adobe parapet...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 5, 1999 11:10 pm
Welcome amberj, grhodes, and prairie to adobe. We are the real folks. Mud. Sunbaked bricks. Homes. In case you might have thought we were software, stick...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 5, 1999 11:13 pm
... end of June. We are between semesters and I am not in my office. We have a ... Israel that would be sad and ironic....
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 5, 1999 11:15 pm
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Geri Rhodes
grhodes@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 6, 1999 4:30 am
Hello adobeonelist, What's the best way to end up with white interior walls if the semi-stabilized (with asphalt) adobes have been plastered with a scratch ...
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Geri Rhodes
grhodes@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 6, 1999 7:09 pm
Does anybody know if there are harmful health effects from using lime in whitewash for interior adobe walls? What is lime? Geri Rhodes...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 6, 1999 10:11 pm
Given that you have a couple of coats of sand plaster on your walls, I think the easiest option would be to paint with a cheap, white, interior latex or ...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 6, 1999 10:20 pm
Whitewash is water and lime, usually. It could have glue added. Lime is Calcium Oxide, CaO. Historically there are all kinds of recipies for whitewash. Some...
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Geri Rhodes
grhodes@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 4:43 am
Quentin, This advice sounds nice. I've heard that access to Ladron has been cut off with locked gates, but I'd like to find out. I like the idea of a tinted ...
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Geri Rhodes
grhodes@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 4:45 am
adobe@onelist/Quentin, I'm guessing that lime will expand and contract at a different rate than adobe. What do you think? Geri Rhodes...
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Geri Rhodes
grhodes@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 5:04 am
An afterthought: would you seal the slip after painting it over the sand plaster? If so, with what? Geri...
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Sam Gray
samgray@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 2:57 pm
Quentin: It's been 20 years or so since I roofed a building but am getting ready to do it again. There's no doubt been some innovations in roofing materials ...
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Geri Rhodes
grhodes@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 9, 1999 5:10 am
Sam, My new adobe house has a nearly flat roof, but the slope is 1/2" for every foot, which works really well. We used tar (though I would have preferred not...
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T.Teeckard
teeckard@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 19, 1999 8:58 pm
For some time I have been interested in alternative housebuilding. I am mostly interested in it because it can be far cheaper. I am 30, and I am a student at...
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Geri Rhodes
grhodes@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 19, 1999 11:27 pm
I've lived in adobes houses in New Mexico for about twenty six years. I'm about to move into a new one just now being built. You might check into ...
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dschreib@xxxxxxx.xxxx...
dschreib@xxxxxxx.xxxx...
Jun 21, 1999 2:06 am
I don't know, but you might have luck with Michael Reynold's earthships. He uses what he terms as a rubber incased adobe. In short he bpounds dirt into an old...
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T.Teeckard
teeckard@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 21, 1999 6:56 pm
I have all three volumes of earthship. In theory, they look like they are ideal homes. My suspicion is that they don't last. That is why I would like to hear...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 30, 1999 10:58 pm
... EARTHEN FLOORS. We have an adobe support group on a list server. Join us at: www.onelist.com/subscribe/adobe...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 30, 1999 11:10 pm
We may be on different pages of the big book of dirt. Earthships that I know about were developed by Michael Reynolds and are made dirt laboriously tamped into...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 30, 1999 11:14 pm
Hard as it is to believe, there are famous and incredibabbly beautiful churches buildt of rammed earth in the Carolinas. Not to mention upstate NY, washington,...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 30, 1999 11:34 pm
Sam, for a low slope roof you can buy roll roofing felt of the 15 or 30-pound variety and nail it down over boards or foam insulation boards if the nails go...
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Quentin Wilson
qwilson@xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Jun 30, 1999 11:41 pm
I have been out of the office due to having to work incredibly hard under difficult weather conditons with dratted inspectors in order to keep the income...
