After seeing the look of your walls, I think we will not plaster our adobe walls either. You've done such a fine job with laying the adobe bricks, there's no need to plaster and make the surface more even. Great job!
Really really interesting. Great job and thanks for sharing your experience. I have two questions if I may ask: 1) what is the climate in your country? Hot and humid? Dry? 2) aren't you afraid of all that wood rotting because it is in touch with that earth bricks which are rather higriscopic? I ask you these questions because I'd like to replicate in Italy with self made bricks and my climate is cold (-5C) in winter and hot and humid in summer. Thanks in advance for your kind reply.
Hi, Thanks for watching! No I’m not concerned about the wood rotting because it’s in contact with the adobe. This is a very very old technique that has worked for 100s of years. Most the oldest building in the USA are Adobe building. We have a lot of historic adobe buildings in my state that are around 150 years old. I’ve never seen any documentation that being in contact with the adobe will cause the wood to rot any fast than normal. As long as the wood is kept dry there should not be a problem. The wood on my home that I’m most concerned about are the Posts for the porch where they come down to the concrete. To manage this, all the posts are off the concrete 2.5 centimeters on a metal base. I’m also concerned about the wood that is exposed to the sun and rain. This we seal with linseed oil every year. Our climate here is high desert mostly dry. We average around 19% humidity. Our temperatures range from -12C to 41C. Moisture is the enemy to adobe, but this is mitigated with over hanging roof lines. There are also sealers you can spray on the adobe. Another really good way to handle moisture is with Lime Plaster/Lime Washes. Check it out on Wikipedia.
Thanks for watching. We are in the desert southwest. We are in the southwest corner of Utah up at an elevation of 5300’. Surrounded by sage brush and Juniper 😁
Are you a “home builder” per se? As in: do you and your team contract to build houses from the ground up? Are you geographically constrained? (Would you work in Arizona?)
Hi Senator, thanks for watching my videos and thank you for your service! Tough job! I’m Sorry but I’m not a builder by trade. This is a project my family did together for our own home. Arizona is a great place for adobe construction. I’m sure there is someone near where you want to build that can help you out.
Project Biggs thank you mr Biggs. I admire your hard work and look forward to watching more of your progress as time moves on. Beautiful home! (Also, I’m not Sen. Booker, just a fan of his).
It would depend on where you are located and how thick the Adobe walls are. We don’t have an AC in our home. This year we have had several days over 103 degrees and our house stayed below 80 degrees inside.
The walls are 14” thick and the LVL beams are about 4” thick set in the center of the wall as part of the post and beam structure. They aren’t pretty beams. Even if they were solid sawn wood beams you would need to cover at least one side unless you had 14” thick beams. Which would be supper cool but that’s not what we had. Thanks for watching!
Excellent job, nice to see a hard working family man building his own home.
Wow, nice , thank you for sharing your amazing work, I'm watching your videos from North Africa Algeria, I wish you the best... 👌👌
After seeing the look of your walls, I think we will not plaster our adobe walls either. You've done such a fine job with laying the adobe bricks, there's no need to plaster and make the surface more even. Great job!
I love the look of the brick! Glad you do too. And you can always plaster them later if you want a change.
@@projectbiggs7694 post & beams can be left where you can see them.. they look nice..
Neat. Love adobe. Impressive work you're doing.
I love it Brother. I "was" wondering how you cover up the post and beams.
Very beautiful :)
Real Adobe walls not covered over really looks cool man.
I would leave Adobe bricks natural with no cob.
Really really interesting. Great job and thanks for sharing your experience. I have two questions if I may ask:
1) what is the climate in your country? Hot and humid? Dry?
2) aren't you afraid of all that wood rotting because it is in touch with that earth bricks which are rather higriscopic?
I ask you these questions because I'd like to replicate in Italy with self made bricks and my climate is cold (-5C) in winter and hot and humid in summer.
Thanks in advance for your kind reply.
Hi, Thanks for watching! No I’m not concerned about the wood rotting because it’s in contact with the adobe. This is a very very old technique that has worked for 100s of years. Most the oldest building in the USA are Adobe building. We have a lot of historic adobe buildings in my state that are around 150 years old. I’ve never seen any documentation that being in contact with the adobe will cause the wood to rot any fast than normal.
As long as the wood is kept dry there should not be a problem. The wood on my home that I’m most concerned about are the Posts for the porch where they come down to the concrete. To manage this, all the posts are off the concrete 2.5 centimeters on a metal base. I’m also concerned about the wood that is exposed to the sun and rain. This we seal with linseed oil every year.
Our climate here is high desert mostly dry. We average around 19% humidity. Our temperatures range from -12C to 41C.
Moisture is the enemy to adobe, but this is mitigated with over hanging roof lines. There are also sealers you can spray on the adobe. Another really good way to handle moisture is with Lime Plaster/Lime Washes. Check it out on Wikipedia.
That looks fantastic
Thanks, we’re loving it! It’s performing wonderfully.
Extremely impressive
It's so cool
How do you protect the wood from termites in Adobe? Termites thrive on clay!
Fascinating watching this. Just curious, what climate are you in? The vistas and things you say make me think you are not in the desert southwest.
Thanks for watching. We are in the desert southwest. We are in the southwest corner of Utah up at an elevation of 5300’. Surrounded by sage brush and Juniper 😁
Love your work it all looks so good. Is the mud to bed the brick the same mix as the brick just wet ? Have a blessed day you and yours
Hi Sherry, yes it’s the same mixture but with a little more attention paid to removing any bigger rocks.
Are you a “home builder” per se? As in: do you and your team contract to build houses from the ground up? Are you geographically constrained? (Would you work in Arizona?)
Hi Senator, thanks for watching my videos and thank you for your service! Tough job! I’m Sorry but I’m not a builder by trade. This is a project my family did together for our own home. Arizona is a great place for adobe construction. I’m sure there is someone near where you want to build that can help you out.
Project Biggs thank you mr Biggs. I admire your hard work and look forward to watching more of your progress as time moves on. Beautiful home! (Also, I’m not Sen. Booker, just a fan of his).
How bout plumbing up with a level for the last 3 layers?
So, is an AC system still needed? I've been reading, apparently Adobe keeps home cool....
It would depend on where you are located and how thick the Adobe walls are. We don’t have an AC in our home. This year we have had several days over 103 degrees and our house stayed below 80 degrees inside.
Hi how long you've been build your house?
Hi Kyla, it took us 2 years to complete.
Why didn't you use a vapor barrier on the beams before the wire
That wouldn’t be a bad idea but I’ve not seen that suggested in any of the research I did prior to building this house.
The question isn’t “how” you’d co er the beams. Rathe it’s “WHY” would you cover the beams?
The walls are 14” thick and the LVL beams are about 4” thick set in the center of the wall as part of the post and beam structure. They aren’t pretty beams. Even if they were solid sawn wood beams you would need to cover at least one side unless you had 14” thick beams. Which would be supper cool but that’s not what we had. Thanks for watching!