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Adobe Brick & Building Workshops Launch in the Verde Valley
by Annabel V Sclippa

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Cottonwood, AZ

DIY - In a perfect world everyone would plant the garden to know the valuable procedure for allowing the sustainance we count on. So too will it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, inside a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Twenty years, offers this using their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not only the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is surely an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands to their work through the entire Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a diploma in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where younger crowd helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by employed by, and creating, new ventures from building the Sedona Community Recycling Center to starting and owning a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from the clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together with his wife, Robin, and continues to expand Beyond Adobe's outreach in services and classes.

Building Homes Not Houses

Beyond Adobe's goal is always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable answers to old and new homes out of the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to create their very own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work throughout the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, both for urban and rural projects. They love dealing with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding a bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you want, and is capable of making custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to meet architectural demands. They use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, based on the client and circumstances.

Earth - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using a combination of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost totally dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and more efficient installation due to their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in every seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The shape is lifted off the adobe when the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape minus the form. After a day or two associated with, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process will take from to a month to fully cure depending on climate conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks having a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are very the identical. They supply for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and people with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made bricks in the borderlands of Mexico for the farm country of Montana.

Finished to Fine Perfection

Earth plasters and natural clay plasters bring beautiful, appealing finishes of nature to adobe walls. Earth plasters really are a combination of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that can come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their very own, and a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and green in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying in their completed form. They may be extremely energy-efficient that assist control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their particular true, earth plaster. The plaster may be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats both for adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it may also serve as beautiful final plaster.

Earth - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and taking advantage of materials from, the United States, American Clay uses natural clays, recycled and reclaimed aggregates and vibrant natural pigments.

Complete

Beyond Adobe provides sub-contract services to contractors and Owner/Builders, so that you will may construct your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, as well as the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should get started. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, along with efficient utilization of resources and self-sufficiency strategies. As adobe brick makers, they take great pride and dedication to maintaining and preserving the indigenous methods and materials of earth building.

DYI

For your true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing one's heart of the company returning to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a number of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and has taught all age ranges and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus young children in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, in order to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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