#rammedearth Bedroom #1 south wall

            Well this is the last full wall for the South side of the house, Sweet!
                   

Air nailing the mitres 

Time for rebar 

And insulation, the 2x4s are notched to hold the insulation while the material is thrown in. 

Everything looks good. Better have some breakfast. 

Charged and ready :) 

Wet the base a little bit, 

The non-colored first few lifts 

Hand tamped, after the pneumatic tamper. 

Some rebar, and more insulation. Now we get get to put some color in. 

Blowing the joint out for the next sheet of form Plywood 

Notice the double boards, to support the joint. 

As you go the electrical conduit gets guided to the centre to the foam. So it's not in the way on the cap. 

Lunch break, 

Coming along, 4 feet to go

Adding just enough insulation to reach the cap. 

There all done, sorry for the lack of pictures, but I was beat. 

We have seen heaps of water bombers and military choppers as the forest fires are crazy right now 

Cap turned out nice, not that anyone will see it, lol

So begins the take down, make sure All the screws are removed from the electrical boxes and any other bling. 

It's the best part, to slowly expose the wall. 

 :) 

Seams look good. 

Electrical boxes look good too. 

Definitely happy with the seams. 

And that concludes this wall. Sweetness 

#rammedearth Living Room Window.

So after a week of  around,  I mean other projects it's time to get back to it.

And here we go, anchoring the base. 

Ram away 

Mounting an electrical box that will be feed through the floor. 

Mixing is taking a while so I'll work on the next form a bit. 

Adding some lines. More concentrated colour in the material 

One more lift should do it :) 

Done. Time for the cap. 

But need some rebar first. 

There cap is done, whew. 

                                                
                                                          Exposing the new addition.

Sweet! #rammedearth 

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#Rammed Earth, Dining room window wall, step by step.

                                           So someone asked for more details, let's try this.
                                        It's actually not that easy to remember take a pic at every step.

Here we are clamping two 2"x 10" across the two walls. 

The anchoring supplies 

Then anchor the boards down by drilling the concrete with a 3/16" masonry drill bit. 

Then a piece of wire goes in the hole followed by the nail. The wire really helps the nail 

Keep things tight. 

All nailed down

Here we have set the form ply in place. On top of the 2"x 10"

Starting to come together

Then we add the back support boards and nail that down to to the anchored board. 

Now we have braced the form with uprights, and those are nailed to the anchored board as well. Care must be taken here or a blow out can happen. 

Time to get some Rebar ready. 

And the insulation gets cut to fit. This is recycled roofing insulation. 

Next is to air nail in the mitres before the Rebar gets tied in.

The mitres are nailed and the Rebar is tied.  

Insulation is in place

Everything looks tight, let's do this. 

But first a wild strawberry break :) 

And ram away,,,,, 

Close to the 2' mark, time for some more rebar and, , 

You guessed it. 

Insulation 

Just about done, 

One last tamp before the cap. 

And that seals the deal. 

Everything looks good 

Set the timer for sunrise 

So the forms are off, looks good. 

The cap took a beating, it rained & hailed last night.

Oh Shit! Quality control 

No  bulge this time 

Cool, she'll be dry in no time. 

So in 3 weeks we made 6 walls, 2 per week was the goal. 

Time to go work for a break :) 

#Rammed Earth, Another living room wall

So we made another little living room wall and as you can see the beginnings for the next form are already in place.

The latest, on the left  ;) 

These boards are squared up and nailed to the concrete as a base for the form. 

The end wall uprights are nailed to the those boards. 

So the wall starts just below the form Plywood 

I'll leave these  boards until the next wall is done, this saved a little set up time :) 

We've set up the side walls for the last tall wall on this side of the building. 

We'll go fill some inwalls in before we start this one.