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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Environment - In a perfect world everyone would plant a garden to know the precious process of allowing the sustainance we depend on. Also would it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, in the earth as well as the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not Just the Name, however the History

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

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a qualification in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where also, he helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by doing work for, and creating, new ventures from building the Sedona Community Recycling Center to starting and running a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe in the clay soils with 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 to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to new and old homes out of the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; and today expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to build their particular.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work through the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They like working together with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the fantastic pleasure of adding your bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

To make sure within the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you would like, and is also capable of making 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, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Adobe - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured employing a mixture of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and more efficient installation because of their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in every seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. A combination will be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to 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 having a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to four weeks to fully cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks with a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are very the same. They supply for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks in the borderlands of Mexico towards 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 blend 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 own, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying in their completed form. They are extremely energy-efficient and 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 particular true, earth plaster. The plaster might be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, additionally, it may serve as beautiful final plaster.

Building - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and using 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 may make your adobe walls per your building plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installation of bucks and lentils, if needed.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come adult with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even 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 true love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient usage 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which is 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 center of the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe supplies a selection of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and it has taught all age brackets and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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