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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Adobe - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant a garden to understand the dear process of allowing the sustainance we count on. So too will it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, in the earth but for the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is surely an adobe block, also referred to as 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 within their work through the 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 doing work 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 the clay soils from 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 always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to new and old homes out of the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; and today expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. They regularly work throughout the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They enjoy dealing with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

To make sure inside the Shape

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

Dirt - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made employing a combination of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing 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 and much more efficient installation for their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in most seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. The mixture will then be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The proper execution is lifted from the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape minus the form. After having a couple of days regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process will take from to four weeks to totally cure based on climate conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very the same. They offer for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a 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 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 of their very own, along with 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 are extremely power efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and 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 both for adobe and straw bale walls. Furthermore, additionally, it may function as beautiful final plaster.

Design - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and using materials from, america, 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 the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, plus the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house 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 that you should break ground. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and everything in between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, combined with efficient utilization 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long-lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops begin with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the Verde Valley, bringing one's heart from the company to its roots.

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

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