Making Adobes

Marina, sorry for my slow response. So busy building the house I rarely check YouTube. Typically straw is used when you have too high of clay content in your soil. It’s used to keep the bricks from cracking from the high clay content. The asphalt emulsion is used to help stabilize and make the bricks more water resistant. You can also use Lime or cement to stabilize the bricks. Lime is use when your soil is higher on the clay content and cement is used when your soil is higher on the sand content. Asphalt emulsion is good for either one, unless it’s really high clay, then you’ll need to either add sand or use straw. We are also choosing to have all our Adobe walls visible, not plastered. Adobes with straw don’t look as good unplasterd, “in my opinion”. We do have two interior Adobe walls. The house design is a thermal mass passive solar design. So the interior Adobe walls make it so each bedroom has a thermal mass wall associated with it. Mexico should be a great place to build Adobe! I’m sure there is a lot of local wisdom and history with what works best in the area and what resources are more easily available. Good luck! It’s hard work but it’s good work and worth it!

So amazing 🎉🎉 I love it

Really good

I wish more videos like this would include information about the location and climate

Ma sha Allah. Thats a professional work you done there. Can you recommend any book, author or academy to have more information? I've been reading some books about and i hope can get more complete information about earth construction. Greetings from Argentina guy in Indonesia!

Hi , Really Looks Wounderful , Can You Please Explain " Asphalt Emulsion concentration, in Detail pls. How to Make Asphalt Emulsion Solution , i watch your vedios Several times. Its really superb

I live in South Eastern Utah with blue clay and geodes. We dug down 10 ft for a septic and the dirt is the same as the top soil. It is like the moon. I recently scored on triple pane glass and want to build a green house. Should I use asphalt emulsion mix, Portland cement, sand or straw with the clay dirt? I have watched every video out there and I still know nothing (ha ha!)

5;45 can't believe you guy's put your hands in there with out telling him you were!!!!!!!

Loved this! Is there a reason you opted for asphalt, instead of doing the straw and dirt method? I’m assuming they are sturdier. Also are only your exterior walls adobe? Looking into building our own adobe home in Mexico. Full of questions!

Good work

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Delao adobe mfg we were the first adobe manufacturer in the Anthony NM area we started adobe production in 1974 and closed the business in 2010 due to the economy collapse of 2009 the delao family were the first adobe manufacturer in the Dona Ana county.

Salute !

Very cleaver

nice. few questions. is it durable or adobe bricks that people stomp every 2-3 inch and then add more soil and then stomp. What is that black water any chemical in it ? What should be composition in this brick. And should straw, wood chip be used ?

Cool! What is that mixer originally made for? I want to try to find that in my country.

Hello dear great job thinking of building out family home in africa with Adobe can you please post vedeo of the finished house and long do you think it will roughly take to build a big family house

Asphalt emulsion? Absolutely horrific

Cual es la mescla que utilizan . Esta muy bueno el sistema.

Project Biggs where did you get your form? Did you make yourself of have a fabricator make it? Can you share the design plans?