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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Earth - In the perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to know the dear process of allowing the sustainance we depend on. Also will it be ideal as we each knew the craft of creating our personal dwellings, in a sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, inside a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems 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 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 with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together 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 to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to old and new homes from the world's most power efficient and durable material: earth; and today expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to build their very own.

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, both for urban and rural projects. They like dealing with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding a bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

To make sure within the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you desire, and is also able to make custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to fulfill architectural demands. They will use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, depending on the client and circumstances.

Construction - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made using 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 ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation due to their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in every seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. The mix will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud to the desired brick configuration. The form is lifted off the adobe once the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape without the form. After having a few days of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take from one to a month to completely cure according to climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite the same. They supply for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and those with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks from your 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 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 that belongs to them, 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 when applying in their completed form. They may be extremely energy efficient that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily 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 for adobe and straw bale walls. Furthermore, it may also work as beautiful final plaster.

DIY - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and ultizing materials from, the United States, 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 may construct your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, plus 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 account 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; making use of their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient utilization 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 perhaps individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long-lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start out with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing one's heart of the company back to its roots.

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

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