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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Arizona - Inside a perfect world every person would plant a garden to understand the dear process of creating the sustainance we depend 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 as well as the Earth, in the type of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is surely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands into their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where also, he 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 your clay soils from 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 old and new homes from the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to build their particular.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work throughout the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, both for urban and rural projects. They enjoy working together with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the great pleasure of adding your bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

It's all regulated within the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you desire, and is creating 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 created using a mix 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 prepared 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 when a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The form is lifted from the adobe once the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape with no form. After a few days of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take from to four weeks to totally cure based on weather conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks having a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are very the same. They offer for a 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 makes 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 really 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, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying within their completed form. They're extremely energy-efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their own true, earth plaster. The plaster might 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.

Block - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and using materials from, the usa, 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 your building plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, along with the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. 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 consideration land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient usage 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or just those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be resilient, fire resistent and lovely, 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 one's heart from the company returning to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a number of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age groups and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus young children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as 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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