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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Adobe - In a perfect world everyone would plant the garden to know the valuable process of allowing the sustainance we rely on. So too would it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, in the earth as well as the Earth, inside a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of Twenty years, offers this making use of 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 called 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 into their work through the 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 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 the clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona 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 methods to new and old homes out from the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; and now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to construct their own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work through the entire American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They enjoy dealing with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the fantastic pleasure of adding your bathrooms accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

It's all regulated inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to make any size, shape, or type 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 will use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, depending on the client and circumstances.

Earth - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made utilizing a mixture of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and more efficient installation for their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in all seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mix will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The shape is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape minus the form. After having a few days regarding, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process will take from one to one month to fully cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks having a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite the same. They provide for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made bricks from 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 certainly are a mixture 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 environmentally friendly in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying inside their completed form. They may be extremely energy-efficient which help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply 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 for both adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it may also serve as beautiful final plaster.

Design - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and using 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 may make your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come full-grown effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should get started. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and everything in between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, coupled 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or just those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group 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 one's heart with the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe supplies a number of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and has taught all age ranges and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the entire Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, high 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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