Adobe is a building material made from earth and organic materials. Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick. What is Adobe House?
Here we'll compare cob and adobe homes, including construction processes, materials, climate considerations, and other differences.
Southwestern Courtyard Gate, Door, Adobe, Southwestern, Gate, Courtyard Gate, Canvas Art, Photo on Canvas, Wall Art, Photo on Metallic Paper - The door to a Southwestern courtyard beckons the visitor to enter, as it is slightly ajar. This image can be printed on canvas OR you can order a photographic print on Endura metallic photographic paper, giving it a more three-dimensional pop and a bit of a shimmer! Each picture you see in the store has a watermark for copyright protection. Rest assured that your final image will be printed at high resolution on canvas or pearlescent metallic photographic paper, and there will be no watermark present. Your order will be shipped directly from my professional lab, so please allow up to two weeks for safe and secure delivery of your custom print. PLEASE NOTE: All images can be custom ordered in different sizes, as well as different mediums. If you like this image but would prefer it printed on canvas or metallic paper or you would just like another size, please select that option from the drop down menu under "Size."
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Here we'll compare cob and adobe homes, including construction processes, materials, climate considerations, and other differences.
Adobe brick is one of the least expensive building materials to use and is easy to make yourself.
Adobe brick is one of the least expensive building materials to use and is easy to make yourself.
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It is (was) June in the southwestern USA and as is typical it is hot and very dry- what better time to make adobe bricks because they also like it hot and dry. I had a pile of adobe dirt that I wanted to get rid of and knew I would need these bricks for a future project. As you can see above the ingredients for making adobes are: -a pile of good adobe soil (sift your soil only if it has stones larger than about 2" or lots of debris), -a form for the bricks, -straw for mixing in with the dirt, -water, a water barrel and a 5 gal. bucket, -a very sturdy wheelbarrow, -and a shovel, hoe, and trowels. I start by making a pit on the side of the pile about half way up. When I was younger I put the pit in the ground but that is too much stooping over and this way you can easily push dirt into the pit and the resulting mud is closer to wheelbarrow height. I learned this by watching some young guys from Mexico making bricks in our neighbors yard many years ago; most of what I know comes from imitation. As you can see above once I form a pit I add straw and water, then the dirt. The amount of straw is personal taste and experience, but I tend to use more than less. You will notice above I have a margin trowel and a mason's trowel with the point cut off. The margin trowel is for pushing the mud into the forms and the "pointless" trowel is great for cleaning buckets and wheelbarrows out, one of my favorite all time mason's tools. Once I get a load in the wheelbarrow I immediately start another load so it can be soaking. This is especially helpful if your soil is lumpy. I find it much easier to fill a 30 gallon water barrel and use a five gallon bucket to fill the pit, so I am not standing around holding a hose, or letting the hose run on the ground, and I can measure the water. You will also notice above that I am well covered from the intense June sun with a white thrift store shirt and a big hat, good boots on, and work gloves. This is incredibly hard work and it helps to dress for success. I made the form years ago from recycled door jambs and scrap lumber. I have seen one, two, and three brick forms but I like the four brick form myself. In New Mexico the common size brick is 4" x 10" x 14" but in Mexico I have seen larger sizes (4" x 12" x 16"), your choice. I shovel the mud in with a bit of force to start packing it (above)... ...and use the shovel to pack it some more. You want your mud mix to be fairly stiff which makes everything harder, from the mixing to the shoveling. I use the margin trowel to pack the mud into the corners of the form. This is very important, as the mud sticks together best from compression, so work it in real good. Level the top... ...then I like to smooth the top of the bricks with a wet mason's brush, (note the 5 gal. bucket on the right, above, which has water in it.) Then I take an old yard sale knife and cut around the edges to make it easier to lift the form off. Some people line the form with sheet metal instead to make it easier to pull the form off, though I have not tried that. I tried wiggling the form off for awhile but found that just pulling it up quickly worked better. And there you have your bricks. This is where the hot and dry comes in as hopefully the tops of your bricks will dry by the next day or two... ...when you can tip them up to dry on the bottom (above). Watch the weather for rain as that could ruin your hard work; now you can see why hot and dry weather is best. I like to use pallets to stack the bricks after the initial drying. Three important points: -making adobes is very hard, grueling work; -plan your dirt and where you stack your bricks to be as close as possible to where you will use them, as each time you pick up and move a brick the work load magnifies; -making you own bricks on site is a cost effective material for the owner builder, whereas transporting bricks from a supplier sends the cost out of reach for the average person. To see some real pros making adobe bricks see my post: Making Adobe Bricks In Patzcuaro, Michoacan, and to see much more on adobe go to the right sidebar and look under LABELS- ADOBE AND BRICK.
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Posting is light — I’m on the road and relatively incommunicado. We’re in New Mexico, building houses with Habitat for Humanity. It’s great stuff. Adobe construction is amaz…
Here we'll compare cob and adobe homes, including construction processes, materials, climate considerations, and other differences.
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This weekend Kelly and I had our first adobe encounter. We were lucky to have been invited to attend a workshop led by Kurt Gardella and Ben Loescher. Kurt also teaches both live and online classes that you can find out about on his website, www.kurtgardella.com.
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It is (was) June in the southwestern USA and as is typical it is hot and very dry- what better time to make adobe bricks because they also like it hot and dry. I had a pile of adobe dirt that I wanted to get rid of and knew I would need these bricks for a future project. As you can see above the ingredients for making adobes are: -a pile of good adobe soil (sift your soil only if it has stones larger than about 2" or lots of debris), -a form for the bricks, -straw for mixing in with the dirt, -water, a water barrel and a 5 gal. bucket, -a very sturdy wheelbarrow, -and a shovel, hoe, and trowels. I start by making a pit on the side of the pile about half way up. When I was younger I put the pit in the ground but that is too much stooping over and this way you can easily push dirt into the pit and the resulting mud is closer to wheelbarrow height. I learned this by watching some young guys from Mexico making bricks in our neighbors yard many years ago; most of what I know comes from imitation. As you can see above once I form a pit I add straw and water, then the dirt. The amount of straw is personal taste and experience, but I tend to use more than less. You will notice above I have a margin trowel and a mason's trowel with the point cut off. The margin trowel is for pushing the mud into the forms and the "pointless" trowel is great for cleaning buckets and wheelbarrows out, one of my favorite all time mason's tools. Once I get a load in the wheelbarrow I immediately start another load so it can be soaking. This is especially helpful if your soil is lumpy. I find it much easier to fill a 30 gallon water barrel and use a five gallon bucket to fill the pit, so I am not standing around holding a hose, or letting the hose run on the ground, and I can measure the water. You will also notice above that I am well covered from the intense June sun with a white thrift store shirt and a big hat, good boots on, and work gloves. This is incredibly hard work and it helps to dress for success. I made the form years ago from recycled door jambs and scrap lumber. I have seen one, two, and three brick forms but I like the four brick form myself. In New Mexico the common size brick is 4" x 10" x 14" but in Mexico I have seen larger sizes (4" x 12" x 16"), your choice. I shovel the mud in with a bit of force to start packing it (above)... ...and use the shovel to pack it some more. You want your mud mix to be fairly stiff which makes everything harder, from the mixing to the shoveling. I use the margin trowel to pack the mud into the corners of the form. This is very important, as the mud sticks together best from compression, so work it in real good. Level the top... ...then I like to smooth the top of the bricks with a wet mason's brush, (note the 5 gal. bucket on the right, above, which has water in it.) Then I take an old yard sale knife and cut around the edges to make it easier to lift the form off. Some people line the form with sheet metal instead to make it easier to pull the form off, though I have not tried that. I tried wiggling the form off for awhile but found that just pulling it up quickly worked better. And there you have your bricks. This is where the hot and dry comes in as hopefully the tops of your bricks will dry by the next day or two... ...when you can tip them up to dry on the bottom (above). Watch the weather for rain as that could ruin your hard work; now you can see why hot and dry weather is best. I like to use pallets to stack the bricks after the initial drying. Three important points: -making adobes is very hard, grueling work; -plan your dirt and where you stack your bricks to be as close as possible to where you will use them, as each time you pick up and move a brick the work load magnifies; -making you own bricks on site is a cost effective material for the owner builder, whereas transporting bricks from a supplier sends the cost out of reach for the average person. To see some real pros making adobe bricks see my post: Making Adobe Bricks In Patzcuaro, Michoacan, and to see much more on adobe go to the right sidebar and look under LABELS- ADOBE AND BRICK.
In the city of Belén, Chile, as a part of the second phase of a Training Program for the Restoration of Facades in Belén, two historically important...
