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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

DIY - In a perfect world every person would plant the garden to understand the precious procedure for creating the sustainance we count on. So too will it be ideal as we each knew the craft of building our very own dwellings, in the sustainable way, in the earth and for the Earth, in a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than 20 years, is offering this making use of 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 referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands into their work through the 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 from your clay soils of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together with his wife, Robin, and will continue 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 solutions to new and old homes out from the world's most energy-efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing individuals 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 through the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for both urban and rural projects. They love dealing with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

To make sure within the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you want, and is also 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.

Adobe - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made using a mix 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 ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation for their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in most seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted off of the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape minus the form. Following a few days regarding, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process will take from to one month to completely cure based on conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks using a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite exactly the same. They offer 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 work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes bricks in 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 are a combination of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their own, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

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

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

Design - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and using materials from, the usa, 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 build 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 offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. 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 consideration land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

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

DYI

For your true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start out with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a variety of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age groups and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, in order to sign up, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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