Charmaine Taylor's earthen cob/paper/lime bench.
COB & EARTH SCULPTING Taylor Publishing
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Old Booklets from the 1930's-1960's- REPRINTED.
If
you are curious about earthen and adobe building these are a good,
inexpensive resource to start with.
Building with Adobe& Stabilized-Earth Blocks- 1964 : Leaflet #535,
USDA . 8 page booklet, 5"x7" size, xerographic. Describes selecting
soil; mixing, molding and curing adobe bricks with a form mold and with
a Cinva Ram block press (ram photo shown). Explains building walls with
cross section diagrams showing construction methods, roof design and
attachment. Gives recipes for finish coating walls (plasters)- a
casein & TSP wash, limewash and lime plasters. Black and white diagrams
throughout. #535..$2.00..Order Here
Adobe Construction Methods: Manual 19 : by LW Neubauer. 35 page
booklet, 5"x7" size, xerographic BOOKLET. A very thorough primer for Adobe!
Explains how to make and build with adobe bricks. Soil selection,
stabilization and waterproofing with cement, emulsified asphalt, lime
are detailed. Describes how to build and mortar walls, place lintels,
windows, doors, and build roofs. Shows diagrams of construction details
from foundation to roof, with correct measurments given. Covers
finishing, painting, limewashing, fireplaces and chimneys,. Even
describes other tamped earth methods such as English Cob, rammed earth,
poured adobe; with photos and diagrams of formworks used. Black and white
photos throughout, produced by UC California Agricultural Sciences Dept
,1964. #19...$10.00....Order Here
Appropriate Plasters For Cob & Stone Walls ... This pamphlet
produced by the Devon, England Earth Building Association (where
hundreds of cob cottages exist) covers use of lime renders and washes for
protection and repair of cob and stone. Gives mixes, directions
preparation methods, resources in the UK. Imported, 8 pages, xerographic.
#1014...$5.00...Order Here
Woven wall of wattle sticks between
timberframing (photo not shown in book.) Earth plaster can be "daubed" on
to complete the wall.
The Cob Builders Handbook: You can hand-sculpt your own home.
Featured article and book in Mother Earth News, October 1998.
by Becky Bee ...One third of the world's population live in homes of
earth, with thousands of cob buildings still in active use in England and
Wales today. This handbook teaches (with humor) all the necessary basics
with chapters on design, site selection, materials, foundations, floors,
windows, doors, finishes and creative cob building techniques. Becky Bee
has built structures in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Central America
and Samoa. 173 pages, profusely illustrated. [ Photo shows Becky Bee cob hut. NOW FREE to DOWNLOAD online...Learn HOW Here
Earthen Floors ... by Bill Steen and Athena
Steen. Natural earth floors are fast becoming the finish of choice for
people building with adobe, strawbale and cob. Comfortable to walk on,
forgiving of dropped pottery and simple to maintain. Earthen floors are
inexpensive, don't off-gas like man-made products and are easily
repaired. This illustrated booklet covers all aspects of earthen floors:
base preparations for various
climates, earthen mixtures; installation; non-chemical sealants; and
upper story applications.
30 page booklet. #1004...$10.00...Order Here
Earth Construction: A Comprehensive Guide B by Hugo Houben
and Hubert Guilland- translated from French, this extensive, 362 page,
profusely illustrated resource covers EVERY aspect of earth building
known, and is considered "the" primary resource for earth builders.
Packed with information on testing soils; it reads like a good science
book, and is invaluable for showing approaches beyond cob and rammed
earth for construciton.
Earth rolls, sod turves, mudball, puddled clay
and many historical earthen methods are described and shown in drawings.
An asset for a personal or group's resource library. Hundreds of
illustrations, B&W photos, 362 pages, softcover, 8 x 10. Imported.
#1022... $47.50
EarthScore: Your Personal Environmental Audit & Guide by Donald
Lotter. This 'test' lets you see how really eco-conscious you are, and
brings up factors you never thought of. Good for planning your house,
site, resources and real needs. Joe Dominguez (Your Money or Your Life)
called it a 'well crafted guide', 48 pages, 8.5x11, #6024...$5.00...Order Here
(A fun, eye-opening activity!)
New Edition, expanded to 100 pages, color photos! Building
Your Earth Oven... by Kiko Denzer.
Learn how easy and practical an outdoor baking oven is to build and use.
The design is a two layer retained heat oven, and can be built with
onsite materials such as earth and sand, and uses a brick base-floor, or
even an earthen floor. These ovens burn a small amount of wood, get very
hot, and allow you to bake breads and meals slowly after the coals have
been raked out. Kiko sculpts his ovens with wonderful animal and nature
shapes. Imagine a huge Phoenix bird, its belly the
oven, the flue its throat, with smoke escaping from the upturned beak!
Children can help build these ovens, and play with earth at the same
time. Complete instructions, 100 pages, 8.5x7, line drawings, and
wonderful COLOR oven photographs of frog, squirrel, and Phoenix bird
oven-bench, plus B&W of a snail and other fanciful ovens.
#1003...$15.00...Order Here
All About Lime: A Basic Information Guide by Charmaine R.
Taylor. Many questions are answered in this book in a binder on using
lime and gypsum. Explained are slaking lime, the differences between
Type S and N, when to use each, how to make a natural cement, dry up mud
on the worksite, and stabilize soil for earthen bricks (for Cinva Ram
block presses and others). Lime is an amazing, very versitile building
material which can be used in the ground, foundation, walls, for
plasters, mortars, cements, garden and land tilth, and in the
waste/septic system. Chapters on plaster and mortar give recipes and
current recommendations on application and use. Technical articles by
Harry Francis, lime consultant. A complete interview with straw bale
plasterers who use lime. A complete history details how lime was used
for building, and how it can be used again for an earth friendly
altenative to Portland cement. Lists lime resources, websites, other
booklets, bibliography. Illustrated, photographs, 52 pages, booklet.
#1009...$13.00...ORDER HERE
Visit the Building With
Lime link page for more information, books and photos.
Free, downloadable articles on using lime
Lime Plaster on Lath article|Limewash article|Lime Renders
article|
Appropriate Building Materials .NOW OFFERED FREE- WHEN YOU ORDER ANTHER BOOK/DVD VALUED AT $30 OR MORE. I EMAIL YOU THE ONLINE LINK TO THE BOOK SITE.The
grandaddy of information on building techniques and materials. Imported
from the UK this big book covers EVERYTHING about natural building, with
photos, hundreds of sketches, uses in practice, unusual treatments, very
low cost methods used in countries with few resources and much more
useful information. Great to keep as a basic reference and idea book.
433 pages, 6x9, paperback #1026...$33.00..NOW FREE WHEN YOU ORDER ANOTHER BOOK.Order Here
Building with Bamboo ... by Jules Janssen . A practical
handbook for construction uses of bamboo, its limits, seasoning,
harvesting for floors, walls, roofs, ceilings, roof trusses and bridges.
Clearly presented technical information, tests, and drawings. 65 pages,
many b/w photos, illustrations,6x9 #1017...$18.00 ...Order Here This is a
great 'how to' book! Imported from the UK.
NOW DVD!! Building with Earth: Cob Cottage Company DVD An inspiring demonstration about
building
with earth, called 'cob', in the old European tradition. Learn how to
live more simply, and see Ianto and Linda Evans with their cob cottage,
built for only $500.00, 28 min., #1007D... $24.... Order Here
Ceramic Houses & Earth Architecture : How
to Build Your Own- NEW EDITION by Nader Khalili. Internationally renowned
architect Nader Khalili,(creator of the Superadobe earth bag style of
building) shows step-by-step how to construct, glaze, and fire adobe and
rammed earth buildings. Excellent detailed information on history,
materials, glazing, arches, domes, floors. 225 pages, many photographs,
8.5x11, paperback . Also has a chapter on Superadobe earth bag
construction, but does not teach this method in this book. Fired Earth
dome design, and building is explained in great detail.
#2006...$27.00...Order Here
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