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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Arizona - In a perfect world every person would plant an outdoor to understand the dear technique of creating the sustainance we depend on. So too would it be ideal as we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from your earth but for the Earth, in a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on 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 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 from the 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 is always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes from the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to build 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 both urban and rural projects. They like dealing with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding a bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

To make sure within the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you want, and is able to make custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to satisfy architectural demands. They use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, based on the client and circumstances.

Dirt - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using a combination of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing 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 and more efficient installation for 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 due to the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever 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 configuration. The shape is lifted off the adobe once the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape minus the form. After a couple of days associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take in one to a month to completely cure depending on climate conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks having a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are very exactly the same. 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 people with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks in 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 are a combination 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, plus 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 safe when applying within their completed form. They're extremely energy efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their own true, earth plaster. The plaster could be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for both adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, additionally, it may serve as beautiful final plaster.

Workshops - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced 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 build your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come adult with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can break ground. 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 consideration land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient usage 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 perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long-lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, 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 Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company to its roots.

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

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