#RammedEarth,The Kitchen window and South Entrance

The Kitchen window and South Entrance

Didn't go as nice as I would have liked but none the less.

Anticipating the wall

Waiting,,,,,,,,   ;) 

Ok, take a break

Looks like I got carried away, too much force/not enough brace

This is for the outside water hose  

Staying tight, everywhere but,,, 

Small gap from the brace failing, the wall will bulge slightly 

Nothing like capping a job off, 

Looks pretty straight on this side, 

Looks good so far, just about to ram the doorway. 

Slight bluge due to the form moving in the one corner.

This will be the south entrance 

It's cool to watch the moisture leave, 

The walls will be backfilled to 2 feet, that's why we we didn't colour the bottom couple of feet. 

Coming along nicely. 

Time to clean the area up and move down. 

Couple of hours later, just can't get enough of these walls. Normally you wouldn't bat an eye on a regular wall, but Rammed Earth walls are so interesting.

#Rammed Earth 2'x2'x11' pillar

Here comes the next one,

The raw material

Ready to be mixed with the Bobcat

Pinning the mitres in place

Adding the rebar every 2'

and more insulation

                                                  

Time to cap it!

Mix, mix, mix,

I'm waiting for Kristin to get up, so she can help me take the rest of the form off,,,, 

peep

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Boo

It's sure nice to look at these walls

Our May #Rammedearth walls turned out nice, such an Awesome experience to build this way.

Here we are finishing off the cap on the Sun room window sil

Sometimes it's not that easy to take pictures at every step, palm face.

May 2015 let's get this party started!

Getting ready for #Rammed Earth Wall #3  :)

Going to be an exciting year for building 

Fill in project before the building materials arrived. Fun times

#RammedEarth #Winter

                                                         Frost behaviour is interesting

Second Wall September 26th/2014

Decided to do another wall before winter.  Here it is.  Its a 2x7' wall that will be in the kitchen.  It was our first time doing outlets and using the insulation.

Scaffolding came in handy for sure,  thanks Larry.

We actually ended here for the day, we are still learning to be more efficient :).  It gave us an opportunity to practice our cold seam, and I must say we did a much better job at it than the last wall.

We didn't color the bottom 1.5 feet because it will be under the ground.

September 1, 2014 OMG The First wall

We just uncovered our first wall today.  I must say it is a masterpiece, not a perfect wall by any means but it stands sentinel.
It is a towering 11' 2x2' pillar in the southeast corner.

It all started here....

After building the shed we mixed samples to find the color
we wanted.  We experimented with a range of browns and reds.

Then Paul started on the 2' end forms that we
will be able to reuse for all the walls.

Bit of play time before the wolf eats the rabbit

Paul as always is Perfectly Square

Just had to show off our Mouser Extraordinaire
Nurtsy Butsy

 

 

The assembled form





Mixing up about 2 yards with the concrete and the colorant



Here we go......



Already up to about 4'.  We had to end for the day so
there is a cold seam in the wall around here

 

 

Ramming the last lift, 11' up.

 

Mixing the concrete cap

 

 

 

And Here it is....... 

 



What a beauty.  The cold seam isn't dry yet.




Close up of the mottling