Friday, October 2, 2009

Building our house

I've taken 2 months off work to construct the walls of our earth house. I hope I can get it done in
that time otherwise I'm going to have to ask for more time off, which will mean a bigger mortgage!

One of the reasons I'm writing this is that there is plenty of info on earth building, but not so much on poured earth.

Our house wall are constructed of "poured earth" or "poured adobe". This is where formwork is set up and mix of earth and some cement is poured into the formwork. Poured is not quite the right word as the consistency of the mix is more like stiff porrige, so it must be tamped or vibrated to remove any voids. If the mixture was actually runny enough to pour then the shrinkage as it dries would be too much and there would be cracking.

3 comments:

  1. underfloor heating kits is thought to be a more efficient way of heating a room - where that room's walls, doors and windows are well insulated - because of the way the heat is distributed by the underfloor heating kits.

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  2. What is the quantity and proportion and what materials are used in the mixture?

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