Hi Jeffrey The houses I have renovated/restored used rubble trench foundations on an incline and they are still standing 200 years later in much the same...
I'm a structural engineer and I have designed and approved several rubble trench foundations. Also, I have been building an adobe house with natural unamended...
William Druc
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Mar 2, 2008 9:51 pm
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Jeffrey it looks like this group has a DVD on the need for a rubble trench when going green. http://www.buildingwithawareness.com/house4.html ... -- Tanya...
Ditto on the plastic tarps problem, I have a few piles of tarp karma waiting for a good idea too. We worked in a few as weed cloth under mulch as garden paths....
Some sailors make polytarps for their boats. But now that I read Kindra's post, I think the billboard material would be better. I think it is Tyvek or the...
Quentin Wilson
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Mar 3, 2008 3:52 am
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Hello, I'm new to this group and I am in the planning phases of building a small adobe house in northern Florida. I've been trying to figure out what type of...
Weather was very cold today in NM. The past weekend was balmy. We are about to burst through into the weather we can never predict in the spring. But it will...
Quentin Wilson
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Mar 4, 2008 6:05 am
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quentin! we are obeying. see our website adobealliance.org. work begins march 14th 08. simone swan, adobe alliance.org swan@... cell 832...
I was just asked this question from someone who is doing an article about the closing of the Old Pueblo Adobe Company: Does anyone know the numbers of...
James Harford
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Mar 6, 2008 2:33 am
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Friends, There was little a ripple last Spring when Rio Abajo Adobe works closed down here at the I-25 Interchange Exit 195 despite all the years invested by...
James, I suggest contacting Fermin Aragon CID Bureau Chief or Lisa Martinez, CID Director for that type of data in New Mexico. Judging from the activity at...
Great question, James. Enough of them, in both AZ and NM, that each State enacted an "Adobe Code", an updated and modern (for the '70s) set of standards. In...
We know Old Pueblo Adobe didn't close because of lack of interest in the use of adobe. I certainly hope this gets across in this article. (count one new...
... BRIEF BOOK REPORT- Got this on Monday and finally had a chance to watch the whole thing. A GREAT overview of building a house from the foundation up with...
Is there a reason not to have interior walls of adobe? I would think that any house built on a slab would do well from the aspects of cost, high mass, and...
Many here have greater expertise than me, but I would mention that if the adobe is bearing it should have grade beams and bond beams, and that adobe does need...
it works. i have had interior walls plastered strictly with earth and water since 1998. does this seem odd? why not indeed. simone swan, adobe alliance.org ...
And why not, indeed, have said heat sink Passiv Haus floors and walls being fed by vert/hor coils using the earth itself as our thermal battery? -Katje Quoting...
Compressed Earth Blocks on the interior of a 80+ year old farm house is exactly what I am doing right now. The foundation on this home is stone. I cut...
... Do you have a cross section of this wall? When you say heated by the sun, do you mean you have a solar hot water heater feeding the PEX loops also?...
Simone, We'll do lunch. -Katje Quoting Simone Swan <adobesim@...>: +++ > brilliant. i want to hear more about the coils +++ > vert/hor! +++ > simone...
When I said heated by the sun I meant a solar hot water panel (Actually a closed loop system with an anti-freeze solution that runs to a water tank for heat...
... (Actually a closed loop system with an anti-freeze solution that runs to a water tank for heat exchange etc. etc.) ... to post pictures to this forum, but...
Ahh, spring. I await the roadrunners on my roof, hopping across to the green lace mantilla Mexi-Elderberry territory to follow the doves, crows, and singular...
Obituary notice on the passing of Nader Kahlili. http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=72321_0_24_0_M What I remember best is his passion which could house...
I'm extremely unhappy to hear this. I considered him one of the leading lights of alternative earth based housing in the world. Thanks for passing the word -- ...
Thankyou Chita, Nadir was a true visionary, an engineer, a scientist, a humanitarian, standing up to the jealousies and avarice of how things are done here in...
If the Earth ran out of earth, Nader would be remembered for his Rumi books. His absence is felt in the Web of life as far into the future as can be imagined. ...
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