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youlookfabulous, having lived in many brick homes, I can say that I have
found them to be very cold or very hot in hot weather. Seems to me that more substance, thicker walls do a better job of retaining that day's heat for the night time cold weather and hold the night time cold for relief during the hot days. Dunno for sure, but it's what I've read and seen on homebuilding videos.
posted by
benzinha
on November 29, 2004 at 2:34 PM
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I'd like the inside of my walls to be solid concrete. I'm thinking, put up the walls in large, concrete bricks and then fill them with cement to make the whole thing solid, cover that with plywood on both sides, then the final covering, and you can hang a picture anywhere you want! :)
posted by
TARZANA
on November 25, 2004 at 12:33 PM
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tolstoy, it's why they give us the DELETE key in our comments section,
no big deal. I deleted all the extras.
No, I don't have a rammed earth home, but I do buy Lottery tickets with the hope of someday building a rammed earth and straw bale home, halfway underground......Here in the desert, one could live as happily as a rattlesnake under those conditions. Cool in summer and warm in winter.
posted by
benzinha
on March 22, 2004 at 2:32 AM
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I apologize
I dont know why that posted the rammed earth question several times. I just got this new Microsoft natural keyboard and maybe I was leaning on the enter key.
Again "Sorry"
Tolstoy
posted by
tolstoy
on March 21, 2004 at 2:07 PM
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?
I dont know why that posted!
I was curious about your ideas on alternativve building techniques
I am interested in stacked wood technique and always wanted to try it.
well written comments I must add
posted by
tolstoy
on March 21, 2004 at 2:04 PM
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Do you have a rammed earth home?
posted by
tolstoy
on March 21, 2004 at 2:01 PM
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Late comment
Adobe melts in the rain and falls apart in the earthquakes. Brick can be reinforced, as can cinder block. Rammed earth needs a lot of binder to be as good as adobe, and it has to be the right earth.
The Berkely fires around 1994 or so left the older stucco houses untouched. They had tile roofs and their windows were relatively small, and they were not built on the steepest land, where the fire can really get going like a chimney. They resisted the radiant heat from their burning neighbors' shake roofs, redwood decks, and thin walls, due to the old thick smooth stucco and their little windows, as well as many having an overhanging roofline. Their tile roofs resisted embers and burning cones and leaves.
If a crown fire breaks out, nothing survives; however, where they lost mutliple dwellings recently, it was often because they build them cheaply and with huge windows, too close together. (Scrips Ranch fire photos: trees and grass OK, expensive houses kaput).
My mom lived for a time in the old stage station in Camp Verde, AZ; three foot thick adobe, never needed air conditioning and little heat. Overhanging roofline protected walls from rains, along with thick external plaster coat.
posted by
majroj
on November 13, 2003 at 3:06 PM
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cdguide, I hadn't thought of earthquakes, you're right.
posted by
benzinha
on November 1, 2003 at 10:25 PM
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Adobe and Brick in the Southwest
I don't have research to back this up, but I have read that masonry construction -- e.g., stone and brick -- is the worst sort of construction to use in earthquake-prone areas.
I don't know about adobe.
cdguide
posted by
CD-Guide
on November 1, 2003 at 4:09 PM
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LadyKeno, an adobe car....hmmmmmmmmm, food for Detroit thought?!?
posted by
benzinha
on October 30, 2003 at 5:42 PM
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Adobe rules.
I would drive an adobe CAR if I could.
posted by
LadyKenobi
on October 30, 2003 at 8:27 AM
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cynthia, thanks for reading and agreeing with me on this. I would love to see the film
because I have long studied the fabulous architecture of earth materials in Africa. Niger paints them beautifully and I love the limb ladders climbing the sides of houses for later repair work. South Africans do lace like work with wood and plasters and muds that are wonderful. From Mauritania to Kenya, Morrocco to South Africa, the homes are exquisite and real artful architecture.
The Maasai(?) do such a wonderful job on their floors with cow dung, that they have made me consider it, but only if they will come over and make my floors. The floors looked like waxed cement in the film that I saw.
posted by
benzinha
on October 29, 2003 at 6:52 PM
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Benzinha, totally in agreement
with you on this. Big U.S. based construction firms
and other western influences have caused the same kind
of elimination of indigenous, cheaper, and more beautiful
building techniques all over the world. We have a wonderful
film you might like called THE ARCHITECTURE OF MUD, all shot
in Yemen.
posted by
Cynthia
on October 29, 2003 at 6:28 PM
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gome, are you saying that you are in Alaska? Canada? Siberia? I envisioned you in
Chicago or something like that.
posted by
benzinha
on October 29, 2003 at 11:07 AM
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gome, it gets a might nippy here on desert nights, freezing, in fact. I put on my long underwear
yesterday as it hit 79 and is falling fast.
posted by
benzinha
on October 28, 2003 at 11:25 PM
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Different climates different building materials.
Ever heard of an igloo burning down? Picked up by a tornado? Never...only problem is your snowmobile suit is your pyjamas...gets a might nippy up here.
posted by
gomedome
on October 28, 2003 at 11:08 PM
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