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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Home Manufacturing Series, recent post #5
  • Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:07:41 -0700


Home manufacturing, recent post #5

http://www.planetaryrenewal.org/ipr/ultralc.html (a little more esthetically appealing than a modular-panel foamed concrete quonset, or simple gable-roof (at least make it wide-overhang), but though this design envisions use of a polyester-resin mix, it could use foam/fiber/acrylic/pozzolan mix just as well---with a lot better insulation factor.)

http://www.northcoast.com/~tms/stone.html (Northcoast has always been a fine source for building low cost homes (and other buildings), still is, and has some new books worth reading (at you local library first).
Buy the Ken Kerns of course, and you've GOT TO Own the Christopher Alexander books on "Pattern Language"---no more boring, marriage-destroying ninety-degree, unlit, no-vista Indiana Boxes. "Making Concrete Ornaments' is a failsafe source of home manufacturing income, and not discussed here, give real consideration to the cheap and excellent India compressed earth blockmaker---nothing cheaper and few things better that the dirt under your feet.)

http://www.earth-auroville.com/index.php?nav=menu&pg=auram&id1=7 (the Auroville CEB press to which I referred to above. Makes lovely buildings at cost little more than plain adobe, and much stronger, insect-resistant, impervious to rain if a little asphalt is mixed in.)
This is the manual press version---used to cost about $800 laid into a U.S. Port of entry. There are engine-hydraulic press versions for lazy Americans---or those who want to make a business of seling compressed earth block to building contractors at a fraction of the price of concrete block) The engine-hydraulic presses as I remember, use a rotary table to put earth mix in the molds, press it in next stage, and eject the molded part in a third. A note as added economy, besides the interlocking block, you only use one centimeter of earth-mortar between blocks---same mix as the boocks are made but slightly wetter.)

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:Ym7sokoF-6kJ:www.cmpbs.org/publications/AD4.3-Earth_Block.pdf+India+earth+block+machine&hl=en (some new stuff on U.S. blockmaking machines---developed in past two or three years.---from Pliny Fisk)

http://www.mountain.org/work/peak/earthblock/opportunity.cfm (Mountain Institute photo of blockmaker)

http://www.motherearthnews.com/index.php?page=arc&id=5256 (Ken Kern excerpt from Mother Earth News---forget about the Cinva Ram though---good in its time, it is now far-outdated)



http://www.gtz.de/basin/publications/earth.htm (lot of books on CEB---French CRAterre started commercialization of compressed earth block constructionl)

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:uwKQjaC-S9oJ:www.gtz.de/basin/publications/books/CEBVol1.pdf+India+earth+block+machine&hl=en (most CEB is good enough for a government jot---GOOD CEB is a little more complicated.)

http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/ebi/index.php?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=13 (testing blocks by standard means to get meaningful result---if you sell earth blocks to a building contractor, he is goint to want to see building specs on them)

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:L7U69MK4sQIJ:www.nibs.org/BETEC/fall01.PDF+India+earth+block+machine&hl=en (miscellaneous symposium notes)

Oh, yeah---you want to build any structure, build a model first, better to build a dozen and select the best.

http://www.patternlanguage.com/pbrochure/purplebrochure.htm#10 (some design innovations)

http://www.northcoast.com/~tms/wood.html (Old Northcoast photo of cordwood masonry that any little old lady in tennis shoes can build---especially if the house uses few posts, is round or hex, and has a bond-beam to tie the cordwood and provide a component to which roof members are attached (imbed L-bolts or steel plate tiedowns.) Someone on the Homestead List built a cordwood masonry house, forgot who.




  • [Homestead] Home Manufacturing Series, recent post #5, Tvoivozhd, 09/21/2004

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