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

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Cottonwood, AZ

DIY - In a perfect world everybody would plant the garden to comprehend the precious procedure for allowing the sustainance we count on. So too will it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth but for the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Twenty years, is offering 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 an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from 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 also, he 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 owning 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 along with his wife, Robin, and continues to expand Beyond Adobe's outreach in services and classes.

Building Homes Not Houses

Beyond Adobe's goal would be to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes out of the world's most power efficient and durable material: earth; and today expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to create their very 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 love working with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding a 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 capable of making 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.

Building - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created utilizing a combination of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost totally dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation due to their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in every seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. A combination will then be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The shape is lifted from the adobe once the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape minus the form. After having a couple of days regarding, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process will take from one to a month to fully cure based on climate conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks having a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks can be exactly the same. They supply for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a 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 mixture 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, and a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying inside their completed form. They're extremely power efficient that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and 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 both for adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, it may also serve as beautiful final plaster.

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

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come adult effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans take into account land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient utilization 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long-lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the center from the company returning to its roots.

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

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