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The Art of Slipform Stone Masonry: NEW DVD format ...#1076...$26.00
by Thomas Elpel VIEW &ORDER HEREThe Art of Slipform Stone Masonry is recorded on certified quality recycled VHS tapes for an environmentally friendly video. The DVD is playable on MAC or PC also. November 2001. ISBN: 1-892784-10-6. 1 hr. 50 min.
Building With Bags- How We Built Our Experimental earthbag/Papercrete Home.DVD- by kelly Hart. 90+ minutes of complete earth bag building information. Using misprinted polypropelene rice bags, and filling them with earth and pumice the Harts created a unique twin dome home, complete with solar/pv and indoor garden -ala earthship design. The video shows building methods using long and short bags, tips and tricks, materials for windows and air vents, failures and problems encountered, plastering with lime and papercrete, plus mixing papercrete in both a drum and tow mixer. Plus he covers electrical installation, plumbing, and a natural rock wall shower they built. Interviews with shirley tassencourt who built her earthbag dome after training with superadobe teacher nader khalili, and a young couple building room-by- room with bags. A poured in place adobe (earthen) floor is shown being built, as well as the Harts tamped soil/scoria (no) foundation construction, and an earth bermed north wall. Kelly offers an honest evaluation of the work, problems and joys involved in constructing an earthbag structure, and he details costs for all materials. 90 minutes, printed resource list included.#9013...$30.00.. ORDER HERE
2 Hour "Building with Papercrete &Paper Adobe" DVD Author Gordon Solberg's two hour
documentary with all new information and interviews on papercrete, paper
adobe and fidobe. See Mike McCain's ingenious building tools and methods,
Eric Patterson's house addition and privacy walls, sean Sands operating a
stock tank mixer and finish plastering his dome home, and several houses
made with papercrete, including spray on and slipform techniques. Also
shown are papercrete logs, mortars and plasters of this material, and
wall forming tips. Narrated by Laura Solberg, this is a low tech video
with some sound and light problems due to outdoor filming, but the
information is invaluable! A very low cost viga roof beam method is
shown, and a clever driver for running the stock tank mixer with an
ordinary car, plus footage of a workshop event in building walls for the
Earth Quarterly office in NM. Running time 1 hour 58 min.
#1051...$35.00..
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A Sampler of Alternative Homes-Order # 9007 120 minutes Two
solid hours packed with interviews, plus inside/outside views and
construction of each type of alternative building...including the
exciting new material " Fibrous Cement/Papercrete" building method. See
recycled waste paper , sand and cement turned into sturdy building
blocks, forms, panels, domes- for an amazing cost of under $1.00 a square
foot! Other methods covered are: Strawbale-load bearing, post-beam and
dome, Earthships, Cordwood, Thin Shell Concrete Dome, Adobe block (see a Cinva Ram block press in use), Rammed Earth,
Earthbag/Superadobe, an Earth Sheltered Kiva, and a city bus conversion
to motor home. videographers Kelly and rosana Hart have built their own
earth bag guest house, which you see under construction in this video.
Order # 9007. NOW in DVD $30.00
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Cordwood Construction- VIDEO - LIMITED COPIES LEFT Order# 4005 (88 minutes), Basic Cordwood Masonry techniques by Rob Roy- shows choosing, debarking, drying, wood seasoning and stack wall building. Plus making mortar, tips on placement of logs, using insulation, weather defenses, foundations, pointing and tools for finishing mortal around logs. Embedding bottles and objects for beauty and artistic expression, masonry stove use, windows and doors, and more. Order: # 4005..SALE .$32.00... . View &ORDER HERE
Cordwood Homes Video available:
Cordwood Homes-presented by Rob Roy This is
a great companion video for folks who want to see several completed
cordwood homes inside and out. Shows round, 16-sided, stackwall
corners( with special edge techniques), post and beam infill, and dozens
of creative details on artful use of cordwood while building. [Shelving,
bottles to admit light, clever use of wood end pieces, masonry stove
designs, building small, and more] Rob Roy visits with friends and
neighbors all over, who built with this technique. 70 wonderful minutes
#9016...SALE: $29.00. ORDER HERE
Cob Philosophy and Methods-Order # 1007-Building with the
earth (28 minutes), with ianto evans &michael Smith. A charming view of
the oldest building material...earth. See a cob wall under construction,
plus mixing techniques, foundations, doors, windows, bookshelves,
artistic additions and more being shown. Order #
1007...$22.00 ORDER HERE
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