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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Adobe - In the perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to know the precious technique of allowing the sustainance we depend on. Also might it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our personal dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth and for the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Two decades, is providing this using their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not merely the Name, however the History

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

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. 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 produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the fantastic pleasure of adding your bathroom addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you want, and is also creating 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, based on the client and circumstances.

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

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mixture will then be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud in to the desired brick configuration. The proper execution is lifted from the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape minus the form. Following a few days regarding, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to a month to totally cure depending on weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are very the identical. They provide for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and those with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created 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 really are a blend 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 very own, and a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

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

Brick - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and taking advantage of 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 you may build your adobe walls per your building plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installing of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come full-grown with all necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps 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 guide clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, combined with efficient use 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 just people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long-lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group 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 with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a selection 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 throughout the Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, in order to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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