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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Adobe - In the perfect world everyone would plant the garden to know the valuable procedure for creating the sustainance we rely on. Also will it be ideal as we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, inside a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of 20 years, offers this using their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not Just the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands into their work through the entire Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where younger crowd helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by working for, and creating, new ventures from building the Sedona Community Recycling Center to starting and managing a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from your clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along with his wife, Robin, and is constantly on the 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 methods to new and old homes from the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to create their particular.

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, for both urban and rural projects. They like dealing with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the great pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

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

Environment - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created employing a mix of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced through the use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation due to their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in every seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. The mixture will then be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted off of the adobe if the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape with no form. After a couple of days of sunshine, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process can take from one to a month to fully cure depending on climate conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks having a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite the identical. They supply for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a 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 makes bricks from the borderlands of Mexico to 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 mixture of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents which come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their very own, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying inside their completed form. They may be extremely energy efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

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

Design - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and ultizing materials from, america, American Clay uses natural clays, recycled and reclaimed aggregates and vibrant natural pigments.

Full Service

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

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and all things in between, these house plans take into account land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

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

DYI

For your true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, 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 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company returning to its roots.

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

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