tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88909953293248496182024-03-06T12:01:55.173-08:00OtraBandaThis blog is about our adventures
building our strawbale/adobe home
in northern New Mexico - by hand.katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-47948331206805200352015-04-15T10:33:00.000-07:002015-04-15T12:30:09.949-07:00Long Overdue UpdateIt's been three months since I have written on my blog. We've spent that time "recovering" and enjoying our new home. We've gotten back to work, too, but spring is here, it's blowing outside (as it's wont to do here in New Mexico this time of year) and we can't really do any dirt sifting so it's a good time to update everyone.<br />
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First, let me say - WE LOVE OUR HOME!!!! Just about every day we look at each other, grin and pinch ourselves. We still can't believe we get to live here! It's cozy and quiet - and - well - everything we ever hoped it would be. The temperature continues to be consistent throughout the house and while we can hear the wind, we can't feel it! Quite a change from the trailer!!!!!<br />
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But, there's still lots to do and we have gotten quite a bit done in between hanging out and getting reacquainted with a social life. (It has really been nice to be able to do something OTHER than work on the house!)<br />
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So - here's where we stand . . .<br />
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Bathroom Vanity</h4>
We needed to finish the vanity so we could use it so that was one of the first things we've done.<br />
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Here's the finished product - in use. We love the corrugated metal hiding the pipes!</div>
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Living Room Wall</h4>
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Before we can start moving bookcases in, we need to get some of the walls finished. The first one - and easiest - was the very large living room wall. We needed to texture then paint. Very satisfying to have it done!</div>
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Studio Floor</h4>
The next next job that needed to be tackled was the studio floor. Because it was still unfinished, it was a big dust creator and we knew that the process of finishing it was going to be a dusty job, too. We just wanted to get it done!<br />
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First order of business was to lay the adobe grid. We decided to start with one section - about 2/3rds - of the floor.</div>
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Then it was on to laying the rest of the adobes.</div>
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Final adobe!!! This felt very monumental!</div>
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Then it was on to the final pouring.</div>
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Last floor POURED!</div>
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The next step will be for me to fill the seams - I will start on that this week. Once everything is dry, the floor can be sealed and then we will have a studio!!!</div>
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Paperwork</h4>
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In preparation for doing taxes I wanted to try to figure out how much we've spent on the house. I have been keeping all of the receipts in an envelope and it was time to organize them.</div>
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As close as I can figure, we've spent in the neighborhood of $155,000 - under $70 a square food - with NO mortgage!!!</div>
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As we settle in and get a sense of the space we are starting to pick up furniture that fits our home and lifestyle. All of it from consignment and/or thrift stores. I'm having lots of fun finding great bargains and the house is quickly becoming a home.</div>
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But let me backtrack a bit. With winter weather approaching - yet again - there were some things that absolutely had to get done before we could move in.<br />
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We needed to get solar panels hooked up - at least enough to live with. Because we still had to run the trailer and well pump, it has taken us a few weeks to transfer all the panels down and get the two new panels to run the pump hooked up. Initially, we only hooked up 8 - enough to allow us to move in.<br />
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Rick, Samuel and Antonio getting the first 8 eight panels hooked up and working.</div>
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While there was not enough time to do ALL the final plaster, I really wanted to get the bedroom and bathroom done.</div>
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The bedroom side of the adobe wall with final coat of plaster.</div>
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The final coat mixture is the same as the fill coat but it needed to be smoother. I took a yogurt container lid, cut most of the rim off and used it to burnish the plaster once it reached leather-hard stage.</div>
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Here you can see the difference - the farthest plaster is "shiny". The near plaster has not been burnished. It really turned out nice!</div>
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We wanted to get the ceilings in the bedroom and bathroom finished. We decided to cover them with reed mats from the garden section at Lowes.</div>
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First I painted the ceiling black.</div>
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The shower was a must! And there was still a lot to do.</div>
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Glass blocks installed</div>
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Shower liner installed behind blue board.</div>
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Shower pan being poured.</div>
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Wall prepped for tile. What isn't shown here is that I painted all the seams with a water proof paint. </div>
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Tile work started.</div>
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Tile work done ready for grout! It was somewhat of a challenge getting the shower pan poured and making sure that we had enough slope. Well we have plenty!!! This drain really drains!</div>
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I installed T & G in the ceiling of the shower. Rick really wanted me to tile the ceiling but doing the sides was hard enough! I just was not up to tiling over my head!</div>
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Cabinets being installed. More auction finds!</div>
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A year or so after we moved to Youngsville we helped the community re-plaster the old adobe church. Behind the church was an old out-house that they wanted removed. It was all old wood construction so we took the whole thing home with us and dismantled it. (Wish I'd had the foresight to get pictures of us loading that thing into the back of the truck!) The wood has been stacked and waiting for a use ever since. Rick came up with the idea for using it on the bathroom walls. I love the way it looks!</div>
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I had been looking at the Habitat Re-Store for a vanity that would work to no avail. I did find a great sink, however, so we used wood we had on hand and built a vanity!</div>
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The sink still needs to be installed - which means that holes need to be drilled so that it will sit flush on the top of the vanity - but we want to do a tile back splash first. We'll get baskets to use as drawers on the shelves. Really happy with the way it turned out!</div>
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While it wasn't absolutely necessary to finish the trombe walls, Rick was able to get them done before bad weather hit.</div>
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An absorbant black coated foil was affixed to the wall before the single-paned glass was installed. The foil is supposed to increase the amount of heat that is absorbed by the wall. We have been told that it could take up to a year for the trombe walls to get "charged" and start working so the jury is still out on them.</div>
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Then - all of a sudden it seemed - it was moving day! Because there is still quite a lot left to do in the house, we really didn't want to move everything - just enough to have what we need (office up and working, kitchen, etc.) but there was still a lot that had to get moved in one day!</div>
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We invited a few of our closest friends to come over on New Years Day for black-eyed peas. The party was a huge success and a wonderful way to start our life in our new home!! </div>
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There's still quite a bit left to do to "finish" the house. The floor in the studio still needs to be poured and the final coat of plaster still needs to be done on most of the rest of the house and we need to build the closet for the bedroom and shelves in the pantry - just to name a few things. We also need to do the final coat of plaster on the outside.</div>
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As I have mentioned before, while living in San Diego we worked on three straw bale houses and we had visited a couple of them out here in New Mexico but we had never spent a lot of time in one so everything we'd heard about the way they perform was hearsay. Now that we have been living in our home for more than 3 weeks (two of those weeks were VERY cold, not getting much above freezing during the day and into single digits at night) I can say that our house is performing as advertised! The only heat we have - besides the passive solar - is two wood-burning stoves and we are really only using one of them currently. The temperature has not fluctuated more than 6 or 7 degrees in a 24 hour period since we moved in. Rick will put a log on the fire before he comes to bed but that's all at night. I have not been COLD in this house once!!!! We are happy campers!</div>
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-48968658568097550222014-11-12T16:16:00.001-08:002014-11-12T16:16:28.585-08:00Countdown to Winter - and Moving! Well, here it is the middle of November yet again and work continues. We have had lovely, mild weather but it is supposed to turn cold this week. Thankfully, all the work that "needs" to be done is inside work.<br />
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The last couple of months have been about dealing with and letting go of stress: the stress of having workers show up - or not; the stress of having so much left to do before we can move in; the stress of impending cold weather; and, last but not least, the stress of trying to get enough done so we could host Thanksgiving. THAT stress we've let go of! While I soooo wanted to host Thanksgiving this year, we really didn't need that pressure. Letting go of that sure made us feel better!<br />
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We've also had to deal with water pump going out at the trailer - yet again - and batteries dyeing. Pump got replaced and so did batteries. But, still, no fun! Plus it took us away from working on the house. All of that is behind us now and work progresses.<br />
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We really have completed - or almost so - most of the really BIG bits. Now it's a lot of little things that need doing and as time progresses, the list of things that absolutely have to be done before we can live in the house has gotten shorter. I would dearly love to get the final coat of plaster on the office, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen walls but if that doesn't get done, it can be done once we're it. Not optimal but I'm more concerned with being warm and snug this winter than having walls finished <g><br />
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The plumbing needs to be done - which includes propane lines. Most of the plumbing is done and the propane lines are in the walls. We're just waiting for the lines to be laid outside which should happen this week. Once that is done and inspected, we will call the propane company to move our tank.<br />
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The plumbing depends on electrical to run the pump. The electrical got hooked up this week so we now have power!! We only have 8 panels installed (out of an eventual 20) and only 2 are currently hooked up but we will be moving more this week. Those two along with the 16 batteries we have give us enough power for now. We still need to have panels at the trailer but we can get by with fewer for a few weeks. We are now waiting for the pressure tank and pump to arrive.<br />
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We spent almost a week installing these tubes and filling with cement. We have lived with funky wooden racks for our panels for ten years. These racks are going to be great!</div>
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Here are the first eight panels installed.</div>
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Light fixtures got installed....</div>
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Here are other things we've been doing.</div>
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Floors</h4>
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Bathroom floor.</div>
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Living room floor.</div>
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A close up of the adobes and poured floor.</div>
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Hall floor.</div>
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The hall floor is still drying but we hope to be able to finish it up in the next week or so. The only floor left to do is the studio floor and that can wait. The hall floor is taking so long to dry - even with the wood burning stoves going - that waiting until spring to finish the studio floor will be fine.</div>
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My cousin and his wife visited us for a week and we managed to get a lot done with their help!</div>
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Rick and Jim working on putting up the corrugated metal on the end of the garage.</div>
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What a difference!</div>
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We built the forms for the cement apron that needs to go in the garage. This is where the washer, freezer, deep sink and water tank will sit. We hope to pour the cement this week.</div>
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We also got the first coat of mud on the garage walls.</div>
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Dry wall got installed, too. Starting to look more "finished".</div>
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We have decided to tile all the window sills which needs to be done before the final coat of plaster is done. I am totally amazed at how labor intensive tile work is! I've done the windows in the office, living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom plus the thresholds of doors in the living room and sunspace and it feels like it has taken me forever. And I still need to grout some of them! Oh well, slowly, slowly, I guess.</div>
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Kitchen window.</div>
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All the tile we're using we got at one of the Habitat Re-Stores locally. We've saved tons of money and while there is a mixture of tiles, I'm really happy with the way they are looking. But, boy, is it hard work! I must say tiling has been one of my least favorite tasks.</div>
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We are going to be moving from 500 sf to 1100 sf of living space and while we have some furniture stored, we will need other things - like a nice sofa. I have been checking out all the re-sale and consignment stores in the area for just the right one. Have seen some really nice ones but just weren't ready to get anything - until last week. I found just the right sofa at the Re-Store! It's leather and in great shape. We have been enjoying it!</div>
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Boy how time flies - especially when you have a "deadline"!!! Winter is coming - yet again - as is family so we have been madly, and I do mean madly, working to get enough done so we can move in SOON! We are also scheduled to host our community Thanksgiving in our new home this year - so more pressure.<br />
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We finished the ceiling trim.<br />
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The fill coat of plaster is pretty much done on all the inside walls throughout the whole house!</div>
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And the dining room floor is done and drying as well.<br />
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Right before we started pouring the dining room floor (each floor requires two pours, 2" deep each) I decided that it was time to bite the bullet and purchase a cement (mud) mixer! Boy are we glad we did! We were able to pour the dining room floor in two one-half days of work. Something that probably would have taken at least 4 days mixing by hand! Needless to say, my body is VERY happy with this setup!<br />
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One of the reasons it took so long to decide to get one of these beauties is that I couldn't start the generator we had. We got a new generator that has an electronic start - yea! Now it will be easy for me to run the mixer by myself, if necessary!<br />
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Final electrical will start next week. Solar equipment will also be ordered soon so in the next couple of weeks, hopefully, we will have power. In the meantime, work will continue on the floor. We plan to start sealing the bedroom floor in the next couple of days.<br />
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<b><i>Thanksgiving here we come!</i></b><br />
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-37848716816950642042014-07-16T09:54:00.001-07:002014-07-16T09:54:57.118-07:00July UpdateWow, I can't believe it's been over a month since I updated the blog! Summer is here and we have been super busy - that's why!<br />
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There is still so much left to do but it is starting to feel like we are actually going to be able to move in this fall! Each day I get up and think about what I can do. We still have some big projects, like wall plastering and floor pouring - but there are a lot of little projects that need doing as well so when I can't work on a big project, I work on a small one.<br />
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Flagstone Toe-Up & Banco</h4>
In the sunspace where the flagstone floor is I decided I needed to do a toe-up to protect the walls when wet moping the flagstone. We were gifted a bunch of flagstone strips that turned out to be just the ticket!<br />
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All the pieces were pretty uniform. It was just a matter of finding the ones that went together. Here they are laid out, ready to mortar.</div>
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There were so many pieces of flagstone that I decided to see if they could be used to top the bancos in the sunspace. To break up the linear aspect of the pieces we added some irregular pieces of flagstone and some slate that I picked up in Death Valley many, many years ago. </div>
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In order to keep track of how the pieces went, we used a piece of sheet rock on which all the pieces were transferred just like they were to be on the banco. Then they could be placed one or two at a time. Worked pretty well!</div>
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Shower Pan</h4>
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Another "small" project that needed to be done before a lot of other things can be done was the shower pan. That was Rick's project.</div>
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Plastering</h4>
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In between big projects I've been getting the fill coat done on the inside walls.</div>
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In preparation for plastering the adobe wall, I needed to cover all the gringo blocks and wood window frames with burlap and mud slip.</div>
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By far the biggest project we accomplished this last month was blowing in the ceiling insulation! We chose to use cellulose not only for the "greeness" of it but also because it's so much easier to work with. In all honesty I can not imagine blowing in the amount of fiberglass it would have taken to do this job! The cellulose was dusty beyond description but at least it wasn't something we had to wear haz-mat suits to do!</div>
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The really funny thing was that the product we used - GreenFiber - came from Charlotte, NC - my hometown. As I was stuffing it into the blower I imagined that all that recycled paper from my home state was going to help keep us comfortable year round out here in the wilds of New Mexico!</div>
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So, here's the set up. I stood at the blower - that green box on the left - and broke up the insulation - the bags in the center (that pile is just a fraction of what was used!) - into the blower. Rick was inside - inside the ceiling, actually - holding the hose. It wasn't hard work but it was tiring! AND DUSTY!!!</div>
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We had left a slot three t&g boards wide throughout the whole house so that Rick could access the "attic". We had to come up with something to keep the insulation from falling out and came up with the idea of using the roofing underlayment. Worked great!</div>
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This is Rick admiring his handy work at the end of a day of blowing.</div>
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We still have some t&g to install in the studio and office but ALL of the insulation is DONE!! What we have found is that now that the house is totally insulated the temperature only fluctuates about 6 or 7 degrees in a 24 hour period - and we've had some 90°+ days!<br />
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Now that the ceiling is just about done, we will be focusing on plastering the walls and pouring the floors. More building sand has been ordered and adobes for the floor will be here in a couple of days. We have been having rain almost every afternoon and evening - over 2" in the last two nights - so the ground is very wet! Hopefully it will dry out soon so I can dig mud for the plaster!!!<br />
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-67205858513181847222014-05-29T08:59:00.001-07:002014-05-29T09:08:16.644-07:00Floor TestWe have a lot of floor to do - and I do mean a LOT! We decided a long time ago that we wanted to have an earthen floor but as time has progressed and the house gets more and more finished and the realization that the pouring of that floor was getting closer and closer, I started getting really stressed about just how big a job that was going to be! How in the world were we going to screed a mud floor that big flat? And what could we do to make that job one I could do by myself, if need be? One day I had an epiphany - why not take adobe bricks and lay them out in a grid at floor height and pour the mud in the cells created? We still have ceiling to finish in most of the house which will take scaffolding but not in the bedroom so I decided to start there.<br />
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Step One</h4>
Before I started I removed all the very loose straw and dirt and got the floor somewhat level.<br />
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Then I laid out all the adobes dry. I did a rough leveling job as I put the adobes in place. Before I started mudding, I strung a lead line all around the perimeter of the room. That was harder than I expected but it's close to level. You can see the string in the next picture.</div>
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Then I started mudding.</div>
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I must say that this was a VERY hard job! Much harder than I thought it would be. Hopefully, as we do more, it will get easier.</div>
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Once the mud between the adobes was dry, I made a sanding block with expanded lath over a 2x4 and sanded the joints as flat as I could get them. I then did some fill work where needed. We may have to go back once the floor is totally dry and before we start the sealing process and do some more fill work.</div>
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Next I re-leveled the floor in each section and tamped it down with the tamper. The floor is pretty much on undisturbed soil so it's pretty solid. I used a watering can to wet down the dirt then I was ready to pour!</div>
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The mix I used on the walls has dried with virtually no cracking so I decided to use the same mix for the floor: One part dirt to two parts sand with a bucket of chopped straw per wheelbarrow of mix. The only change I made was to add twice as much chopped straw as I did for the wall plaster.</div>
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To make the screeding process easier I took an old 2x6 and cut 2" sections out of each end. That allowed me to screed the first pour at 2" below finished floor level. On the final pour, I just turned the board over.</div>
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Once I started pouring and screeding I realized that even though setting the adobes was hard work, it was well worth it. They give us a manageable size cell to work with and made the filling and screeding a breeze!</div>
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First pour!</div>
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All six sections filled to 2" below floor level.</div>
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We allowed the first pour to dry for a day or so - just until it was still moist but not leather hard.</div>
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Then the second pour was made. Note the screed board turned over now.</div>
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We made the chopped straw I used for this pour much smaller - 1" pieces or smaller.</div>
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All the cells filled and ready to dry.</div>
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I checked the floor every day. The first couple of days I kept finding holes "dug" into the wet mud. I figured it was mice trying to get the straw out - or something. The holes were easy to fix with a little water and a trowel. That stopped once the floor got harder.</div>
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At the leather-hard stage, we took a damp sponge and wiped the sections down, exposing some more of the chopped straw.</div>
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At the end of a week, you can see that the floor is starting to dry. The exciting news is that we have found NO cracking!!!</div>
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-60758006398564136972014-05-04T08:51:00.001-07:002014-05-04T09:03:24.036-07:00Overdue UpdateTo say that spring weather in New Mexico can be schizophrenic is putting it mildly. One day it will be in the 60s and the next day it will be winter again. On May 1st, 2011 we had over 5" of snow! We didn't get the snow this year (sadly) but we have had wind and cold temperatures which have put a crimp in my work. It's very hard to think of putting my hands in wet mud when the wind is blowing outside and it's 40 degrees!<br />
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We managed to get some drywall and blue board up in the bathroom.<br />
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The photo on the left shows the wall between the shower and the vanity area. Glass blocks will fill that vertical space. The photo on the right is the shower, which will be tiled.</div>
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I also installed the flagstone on the top of the adobe wall that's between the bedroom and the sun space. It was a little like putting together a jig saw puzzle - fun!</div>
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All the pieces in place.</div>
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I've been spending warm days putting the fill coat of plaster on the bedroom and office walls. While plastering itself doesn't take all that long, the drying will - as will the drying of the floors - so I am trying to get as much on the walls now so that when the ceiling's done we can get to work on the floors.</div>
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On of the very few things I would do differently - were I to be crazy enough to ever build another straw bale house - would be to be more careful about stacking bales. I would take the time to make sure they were all trimmed to help minimize the amount of cob fill I'm having to do. Some of our walls are - well uneven to say the least which has made for very slow going. BUT two rooms have the fill coat done!!!</div>
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South wall of office.</div>
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For the earthen plaster geeks among you, the plaster formula I'm using is one part dirt from the site to two parts sand with chopped straw. (I can manage 10 shovels of dirt, 20 shovels of sand and two very healthy handfuls of chopped straw which fills a large wheelbarrow.) I'm mixing it pretty stiff and I'm getting next to no cracking! We're not yet sure what we will be doing for a finish coat.</div>
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We really can't start the floors in the main part of the house until the ceiling is done but we can get the floor in the bedroom poured - which will be my next project.</div>
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-39230012563101914482014-03-20T08:47:00.001-07:002014-03-20T08:47:08.108-07:00Slow GoingWhen last I wrote, we were ready to call the plumber to get the vent stacks installed so we could finish the ceiling. Well, we called - and called - but he never returned our calls so Rick has decided he is going to install the stacks himself. He has been collecting bits and pieces and water heater vent stacks in preparation for that project and hopefully it will be done in the next few weeks.<br />
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In the meantime, winter has progressed to spring and while we've had some really nice weather most days the thought of putting my hands in wet mud has not been a pleasant one. I have managed to get the first coat of mud on the walls in the office and bedroom, however!<br />
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East wall and west wall.</div>
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Plaster on the window ledge to fill in holes and create a "flat" surface on which to lay tile.</div>
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One piece of tile placed just to see how it will look.</div>
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Trombe wall with tile placed, ready for instillation. The two big pieces at either end will be cut to fit. The tiling will have to wait until it's warmer.</div>
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This is the window in the shower. We will install blue board and set tile over that but we added tar paper and window tape at the corners to increase the protection of the straw.</div>
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This is the first coat of mud and cob which went a long way in filling in all the dips.</div>
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It has made quite a difference!</div>
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Then we decided to install the insulation in the garage.<br />
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This ceiling will eventually be covered with drywall. The insulation has made a noticeable difference in the temperature in the garage which has made us very hopeful for the house!</div>
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<b>Spring!</b></div>
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It has really felt like progress has been slow! A lot of that, I think, is that while the afternoons have been relatively warm, it's still only in the 40s in the afternoon! And the spring winds have started. Some days I just don't feel like braving the wind and cold and find myself snuggling up with a good book!</div>
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Also, I think we may have a touch of spring fever <g> </div>
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We decided to have a community garden on our property this year and invited our friends to participate. We started that work this past week. It feels really good to have friends participating. It will allow us to have a garden AND work on the house - best of both worlds!</div>
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Well, it's warming up so I guess I'd better get myself together and get out to the house.</div>
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<i><b>Happy Spring!!!</b></i></div>
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-32906025479699442872014-02-02T09:14:00.001-08:002014-02-02T09:37:36.094-08:00A New Year & Work ContinuesJanuary has come and gone and while it was one of the mildest on record (and DRY, too) it has still been cold. Most of our work nas been relegated to afternoons when the temps are a little warmer which is somewhat frustrating because some mornings I'm raring to go but it's just too cold!<br />
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We have really come to love the wood burning stove we installed in the living room. So much so that we decided to put another one in the studio. We got this one from some friends and we love it!<br />
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Rick got to do more rock work.</div>
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Stove installed.</div>
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We have done just about all we can do on the ceiling for now.<br />
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Get a load of the scaffolding we've been using to get to the top of the ceiling. It's hard not to feel like a monkey at the end of the day.</div>
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Scaffolding finally cleared out of the living room - for now.</div>
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Rick had to install lots of spacers in the hip area of the office ceiling so he'd have something onto which to nail the T&G.</div>
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I spent the better part of a week on the floor looking up at the work Rick was doing. He'd measure, I'd cut. My neck was a mess! This is the best angle I could get for a picture - it's looking from the studio through the wall into the office.</div>
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We've also installed more drywall.</div>
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Studio side of the wall.</div>
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Office side of the wall. Note the scaffolding again. We're getting pretty good at moving that around!</div>
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This is looking down the hall towards the office. Starting to really look like something!</div>
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There are some things that need to be done prior to plastering so I've been spending some time doing detail work. The first thing is the top of all the windows. We decided to install tongue and grove and was able to use up a whole lot of little bits and pieces left from the ceiling.</div>
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Here are pieces measured and cut, ready for instillation.</div>
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Here's what it looks like installed.</div>
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Another detail that needs to be done are all the window sills. I started with the trombe wall in the office.</div>
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First I need to measure and cut two pieces of blue board and clean off the top of the adobes.</div>
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Now it's ready for tile.</div>
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One wall of our shower will be straw bale. There are many pictures of bathrooms and showers that have been installed in straw bale houses but not much on how they did it! So we're going to have to make it up as we go. From what I've read, mud plaster is very good at wicking moisture away from and through the bales so we decided to frame the straw wall then put up blue board. Before blue board is installed, I will mud and cob the wall where it will go. The whole shower will then be tiled.</div>
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Most of the framing done.</div>
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In order to get some more natural light into the shower, we've decided to use a stack of glass blocks. This picture shows where they will go.</div>
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These are the tiles we've gotten to use in the shower. We got them at the Habitat Re-Store and saved a ton of $$$. The colors are very subtle and I think will look great.</div>
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We are just about ready to call the plumber to come and install vent stacks. Once that is done we will be able to finish the ceiling and blow in the insulation. We are both really looking forward to having that done. We know it's going to make a huge difference in how warm (or cool) the house stays. Right now that's hard to imagine.</div>
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When I sat down to write this post I felt like there wasn't going to be too much to write about but looking back at what I've written I see that we've actually gotten quite a bit done in the last month! Now for warmer weather so we can start the plastering!!!</div>
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The holidays are here once again and work continues at a slow but steady pace. This time last year we had just started putting up the straw walls! My, what a difference a year makes!</div>
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We still have inside plumbing stuff that needs to happen but in the meantime we are doing what we can. More drywall has been installed.</div>
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We finished the wall between the living room and studio. That's a lot of wall!</div>
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This is the wall in the sun space.</div>
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And this is my pantry! (Oh what dreams I have for this space!)</div>
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The drywall is really starting to give a sense of "house" to the place and while there's still drywall that we can do, we decided to focus on the tongue & groove ceiling because once that is done, we will be able to blow in the insulation which will make the house a lot more comfortable!</div>
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The T&G is Aspen and is really beautiful! We have 10' lengths and with the help of the handy, dandy BoWrench that Rick found online we are able to put up full 10' lengths. This tool is the greatest thing since sliced bread and has really made this phase of the building project pretty easy. It's definitely easier than putting up the roof!!!</div>
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This is the office ceiling. This end of the house has a hip roof which is going to make the ceiling a bit challenging. We've installed all the T&G up to the hip part. We still have to figure out how we're going to do the rest.</div>
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Until we do, we have moved into the rest of the house. As I mentioned above, there is still some plumbing venting that needs to be installed so we're working around those areas.</div>
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This is looking down the hall towards the office and studio.</div>
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The ceiling in the sun space is done up to within a foot or two of the peak. The space that is left will allow us to get up there to blow in the insulation. The picture doesn't do the wood justice - it is really beautiful.</div>
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Now that winter and the holidays are upon us, it's good to take time to reflect on the past year and all our many blessings. Most of our blessings are in the form of friends. We are so blessed to be living in a place that is not only beautiful but where we are surrounded by wonderful people. Their support - both moral and physical - has made this project a joy. From the loaning of tools to the hands-on help, we wouldn't be this far along without them!!!</div>
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So - to all of our friends and family near and far we wish you all the best this holiday season and for the New Year. We hope to see you all out here soon!</div>
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Winter arrived this week with a vengeance! While we didn't have a ton of snow (maybe 3 inches) we had horrible wind and now it's bitterly cold! Needless to say, we are grateful for the wood burning stove. While the lack of insulation in the ceiling allows heat loss, the fire does provide warmth enabling us to continue work - which we're doing. (I keep reminding myself - and Rick - that this time last year we were stacking bales and all we had for protection was plastic!)<br />
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Tongue & Groove, "Lintels" and Drywall</h3>
We've got two major tasks ahead of us: installing the tongue and groove ceiling and drywall on the framed walls.<br />
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Slip had to be applied to the top of the bales before we could start on the T&G. Once the slip was done baffles had to be installed between the trusses to allow air flow.<br />
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With baffles done we could finally start on the T&G BUT we could only do two courses because cob had to be stuffed in the crack between the T&G and the wall. Our walls aren't very even so there were gaps of varying sizes. If we didn't stuff cob in the cracks we would risk losing a lot of insulation once we start blowing it in. Thankfully I was able to get the cob work done before the bitter cold hit us.</div>
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Here you can see where the cob was stuffed in the cracks.</div>
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This is looking from above. The T&G is on the bottom right.</div>
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Tongue & Groove</h4>
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In order to make sure the first course of T&G was level all around the whole house, we used a water level to mark all the trusses.</div>
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A test.</div>
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First piece nailed up!</div>
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First two courses.</div>
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Three courses in the living room!</div>
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"Lintels"</h4>
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We didn't have to install lintels above all the doors and windows - we used boxes attached to the trusses to hold the bales instead - but we decided we did want the "look" of lintels so we got some rough cut 2 x 6s and cut them to fit. We're very happy with the way they look.</div>
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Drywall</h4>
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We are total novices at drywall (as we have been with most of the tasks involved in building this house!) so we started in the studio. The studio walls will be mostly covered by model train layout and shelves so we could practice here without worrying too much about the way it looks.</div>
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Studio wall from the living room.</div>
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Wood</h4>
With a wood burning stove comes the need for wood. Out here in the wilds of northern New Mexico a wood gathering permit can be had for $20 which will allow you to cut 5 cords. Recovering city folk that we are, we had no idea where to go or how to go about getting the wood. Luckily we have friends who have been doing this for a few years. We joined up with them a month ago or so and spent the day cutting down-and-dead pine and aspen. It's hard work made so much easier and more fun with a group of good friends! (We have since gotten another load for them.) Cutting and hauling are just the first two steps. It all has to be split! Here again, friends helped with the loan of a wood splitter. Rick spent a few afternoons splitting our 2.3 cords of wood.<br />
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This is less than 1/3 of our total haul. We now have three racks just like this one full. It will be interesting to see how much we use this winter as the ceiling insulation is yet to be installed. So far, though, it is really helping to keep the house cozy - and helping to dry out the mud plaster.</div>
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Rick has always said he wanted flagstone for the floor in the sun space but we felt we just couldn't afford it. Then we heard of a couple of guys who work with our friend Pat who do really good work at a price we COULD afford! Bring it on!</div>
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First the floor needed to be cleared and leveled. They also wetted it down.</div>
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This is quite a process. It's a lot like making a jig saw puzzle. Each piece had to be cut to fit and the pieces chosen so that the final would be beautiful to look at. Hard work but they were good at it!</div>
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Almost done with the cutting and fitting.</div>
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Now time for the mortar.</div>
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We are soooo pleased with the way this turned out! We can't stop looking at it.</div>
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With the outside plastered done enough for the winter it is now time to start on the inside mudding. There's a bit of a race against the weather here as once it starts snowing and the ground (and hose) freezes, all mudding will stop until spring so I have focused on getting a coat of slip on the top three courses. Somewhere in all my reading and researching I came across someone who recommended that the bales be completely covered. For us this means the top of the top course which will be behind the T & G. I took this to heart and have been madly mudding that top course. But as I mud it occurs to me that these bales will be totally covered with blown in cellulose which will have borax in it so I'm now questioning the wisdom of spending all this time mudding this course. Well, it's now done regardless. I'm not sure it's thick enough to actually do anything but it's all that's going to be done!</div>
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The wall above the bedroom between the house and garage.</div>
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Now that the top courses are mudded we can start installing the T&G. We will probably have to go back and add cob at the edge where the T&G meets the wall before we blow in the insulation but that should be a relatively small job.</div>
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<b><i>Thanks again to all our friends who have helped us along this journey!</i></b></div>
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We FINALLY got the last bit of outside plaster done - until spring. Now we can focus on the inside of our house.<br />
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The first order of business was to get the hearth ready for the instillation of our wood burning stove. We have had amazing luck when it comes to finding things for the house at great prices. Our stove was no exception. We lucked into a really good used Pacific Energy stove and a great person to install it - thanks Justin of Bailey's Chimney Sweep!<br />
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First we decided on the location. Then we installed adobe bricks at the finished floor height where we wanted the hearth to go.</div>
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We collected large stones from the old foundation of Jack Young's home and general store. Mr. Young named Youngsville and had the first PO in his general store which was on one corner of our property. These stones are HEAVY!</div>
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This picture was taken in 1917. For those of you who have visited us, those trees are now the huge cottonwoods at the NE corner of our property. Little bits of foundation are all that's left of the store and home and now some of them are part of OUR home.</div>
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Stove installed means we now have HEAT. We have been making fires each day - just 'cause we can - and to make sure the stove works. It works beautifully and will make it very pleasant to work inside through the winter. Good thing we got a couple of cords of wood this summer!</div>
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The next major phase is to get a coat of mud slip all over the bales inside. I have covered a pile of dirt with plastic to keep it dry so that, hopefully, it won't freeze any time soon. Once the slip is on we will then start installing T&G for the ceiling and sheetrock for the framed walls. The finished plaster (and floor) will be done in the spring once things warm up and we are able to dig dirt again.</div>
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-88774382510781813062013-10-04T09:38:00.000-07:002013-10-04T09:38:20.643-07:00Reality CheckOctober is here already and after all the rain we got in September, we are still trying to get that second coat of plaster on the outside of the house. Time for a reality check! There's still so much left to do and just the earthen floors, which we can't get to until the ceiling is done, will take 2 to 3 weeks to dry - and then will need linseed oil finish which will also take time to dry. By the middle of December the ground is going to freeze meaning we won't be able to dig dirt for the floors or plastering. I won't go into the rest of the list, just suffice it to say that there is just too little time between now and hard winter to get enough done to move in. Sad but true.<br />
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While I do not relish yet another winter in our trailer, I am feeling a whole lot less stressed about the house. There are still things I feel we need to get done before the middle of December but the list is a whole lot shorter and more doable. We're getting our wood burning stove in a couple of weeks and once a coat of mud is on the wall we will be able to have heat in the house. Work will continue!<br />
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Rick got the garage doors installed so the house is totally enclosed and looking good!<br />
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-37689827032213228852013-09-19T08:54:00.002-07:002013-09-19T08:54:09.463-07:00Rain, Rain GO AWAY!!!!I think everyone around the country will agree that the weather this summer has been - well - freaky! New Mexico has been (and continues to be) in a drought. Most of the summer has been very, very dry. When the monsoon rains did finally get here they were spotty at best for us. That all changed about two weeks ago. While we have been very lucky, at times the rain has been relentless. Needless to say, it has put a real damper on our plastering. When last I posted we were finishing up the first coat of plaster. It's pretty important that we get the next coat of plaster on before freezing weather comes but with all the rain we've been having, it's been hard to even get started on this coat.<br />
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Lake Youngsville! And this was before the real heavy rain started. Grading and drainage are in the plans, we just haven't had the time to get to it. The lake got bigger once the rain started in earnest!</div>
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Rick spent most of an afternoon - in the rain - digging trenches. They worked and most of the lake got drained off - thank goodness!</div>
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There was nothing to do but move inside to work. It was a good time to trim the straw walls and corners and stuff holes. We also needed to bull-nose all the window and door openings. After working some more with the burlap, I decided that reed mat fencing would work much better for this job.</div>
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Reed fencing - available at the local hardware store.</div>
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Step one was to remove one of the reeds at the width needed for the opening.</div>
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Once that was done, I could cut the wires . . . </div>
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then twist them so that the mat would continue to hold together.</div>
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The piece was then stapled to the frame. The hardest part was filling in all the holes and spaces with straw so that once the mat was in place, it would be firm and give a good solid surface on which to plaster.</div>
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After the holes were filled and the mat pulled around the bales, landscape pins were used to hold it snuggly in place. </div>
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Done. This looks really good and I think will make for a great surface on which to plaster.</div>
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Rick stuffing holes.</div>
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The corner by the front door really needed some work. The horizontal board we inserted to give us something to hang things from was not level. A wedge had to be inserted and hammered in to raise one end. This left gaps that needed to be filled with cob.</div>
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It took a lot of cob to fill these holes! (And of this writing, it's still not dry!!)</div>
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Reed mat in place. It looks much better and a lot more even!</div>
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I have managed - in between rainy days - to get a little of the second coat of plaster on.</div>
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The first application.</div>
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We got about 1/2 load of plaster applied before we had a sever storm with heavy, driving rain. This was the kind of rain we don't usually get but, I must say, it was a good test of the plaster!</div>
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As you can see, the rain left divots but, by and large, the plaster held up very well! At least I will be more comfortable through the winter once this second coat is done! (That is if it ever stops raining!)</div>
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The other good news is that through all this wet weather the inside of the house continues to be snug and dry!</div>
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The rain has brought wild flowers and today the sun is shining - and the weather forecast is for more sun and dryer weather for the next week! On with the plastering!!!</div>
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But first we moved all the rest of the bales that were stacked in the office outside and made a fort for our grandsons - ages 4 & 5. They loved it!<br />
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Wow! What a nice space this is without the bales! This is going to be a wonderful place for an office.</div>
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I think Rick and Dylan wanted to avoid plastering as long as they could so they decided to install our great 8' French doors first. These go into the office. The plywood to the right is Rick's painting wall in the studio.</div>
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The week wasn't all work, though. We took the family on a drive up to Mesa Alta - the large mesa just to the NW of us. The boys had fun finding pine cones and we enjoyed a lovely afternoon doing something other than working on the house.</div>
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Kyler, Riley and Dylan up on Mesa Alta with the house in the background.</div>
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Then they were all gone! Dylan and family back to their home and Rick to California for a convention. Boy is it quiet! I'm here with the dogs and the plastering, working on the top 3 feet left of the first coat.</div>
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One afternoon the weather turned blowy and rainy so I decided to finish the glass block and bottle section above the picture window in the sun space. We sort of mis-calculated the size of space needed in the adobe wall for the window which left us with the opportunity to be creative. We had 5 glass blocks we had collected from here and there (one from my friend Lorraine's studio when she moved from San Diego - I've been carrying that one around for about 15 years!) They filled most of the space and the rest of the space we decided to fill with beer bottles.</div>
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Bottles washed and labels removed.</div>
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I like the way the bottles look from the outside but wasn't real happy with the way they looked from the inside. Just not to fond of the open bottles sticking out. So I decided to look for glass stoppers - something to give the bottles a little more finished look. I found some offered on e-bay. Really cool antique glass bottle stoppers - just what I was looking for!</div>
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We are building this house ourselves because it's the only way we can have the house we want. We are committed to doing our best to build this house without a mortgage and doing it ourselves is the only way! But I have a whole new respect for the term "labor intensive"!!! Yes, stacking straw bales is not very hard and yes, plastering with earth is pretty easy and kind of fun but it is VERY labor intensive! We are going to have a wonderful home, one that feels warm and inviting but doing it ourselves is the only way we could have that home. I now know why quotes from contractors to build straw bale homes are so high. There is nothing conventional about building this way and no matter how you do it, it's going to be labor intensive! Maybe we'll win the Lotto and can hire a crew to finish the plastering.</div>
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I have been working in sections just in case we have rain. The prep work has taken the most time. I take off a section of plastic, straighten the bales as best I can, fill holes and cover all exposed wood and metal with mudded burlap.</div>
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Wood with burlap and cob (mud and straw) stuffed in the cavity above.</div>
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There was a cavity that I couldn't get to from inside that ran all around the house. This had to be filled with cob as well.</div>
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One thing I've learned: the better and straighter the bales are stacked, the less prep work. That is easier said than done! Because the house was completely covered with plastic we could not see the other side to see how well we were fitting the bales and how straight we were getting them so we're having to do all that work now. Every hole has to be filled with straw and/or cob. BUT, once this first coat is done, the rest will go a lot faster!</div>
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Our friend Beth, came by to help!</div>
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Our friend Jo, came by as well, but my hands were too covered with mud to get a picture of her. Next time!</div>
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Here's the wall with the olive oil bottles. I'm really happy with the way it's looking. I think it will be very nice when all the plaster is done and the bottles are cleaned.</div>
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With the monsoon rains came the flies! They have been terrible and they BITE! SOOO, I just said the heck with it and spread mud all over my legs - no flies!!</div>
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All the plastic is OFF! And most of the slip coat is DONE!</div>
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And it's starting to look like a house!</div>
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On the afternoon of Sunday, July 21st, 2013 I laid the LAST rock! I can not begin to tell you how happy that made me! That was a job that, frankly, I thought would go on forever when in truth it only took three weeks! But now it's done! (So I can stop looking at rocks, right?)<br />
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As you can see in these pictures, most of the doors and windows are also installed! The difference this makes is amazing. All of a sudden we can see our views, open doors and windows for ventilation and start to get a feel for what our house is going to be like.</div>
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This is the living room. The big window has blinds inside the glass! No dusting! And they make the room really dark. Too cool! (One of our great auction finds.)</div>
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There are still two windows left to install. They're windows I got at Habitat and need some restoration so that's what Rick is currently working on. We lucked out and found what we think is the right weather stripping to replace what's on the windows now and once that arrives, the windows will go in and THAT phase will be done!</div>
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In the meantime, it's on to plastering for me. I've spent the last couple of days doing prep work: holes that need filling with straw, etc. I also had to go around the whole house and make sure the chicken wire right under the roof was well attached. I discovered when I did my first plastering under the roof line at the battery shed that if the wire wasn't attached to the soffits it sagged really badly so armed with hammer and nails and loose straw for filling in holes I worked my way around the house. Nasty job! Got almost as much straw in my mouth and ears as I did behind the chicken wire! But it finally got done!</div>
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To the left and right of a couple of windows were spaces that needed filling. Lose straw would just fall out and the spaces were not big enough to actually tie up straw so I'm using burlap to hold it all together.</div>
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This is a shot from outside. I stapled a piece of burlap to the post.</div>
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Then pulled the burlap to the inside of the window. I was then able to stuff flakes of straw into the space. The burlap kept it from falling to the outside.</div>
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I could then wrap the burlap over the straw flakes . . .</div>
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and attach it to the bales with landscape stakes. The hope is that the slip will adhere to the burlap making for a good base onto which I can plaster. It also helps me to cove the window. </div>
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This is the view from outside. I can now stuff cob and slip over the burlap, thus filling the gap. </div>
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I was e-mailing a friend yesterday and telling her about our progress and all of a sudden I realized that I really LOVE our house! It's even starting to feel like a home! One of the main reasons I have always wanted to build our own home is that I had this fantasy we could build a place that would be warm and welcoming and would give one a sense of peace and tranquility upon entering. Well, guess what! It has worked! Even at this stage - with exposed straw and framed walls - there is a quiet and calmness present. Sometimes I go over just to walk around. We've taken some folding chairs over so we can spend some time just sitting and looking out at our views.</div>
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The realization that our vision is being manifested is incentive to work to get it livable!</div>
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So - once I've figured out the steps to the plastering process I will put out the word for help. This is a fun job and with the help of friends it will be more fun!</div>
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NOTE: In the last post I wrote about plastering the battery shed. I got the slip and one coat (the discovery cote) on with the hope that it would be enough to protect the walls from any rain we might get. Since then, the monsoon season has begun and we've had a couple of good storms. Most of the rain has come from the NE which is not the usual direction, and hit the east side of the shed. I can report that even though the plaster isn't very thick it has held up well! Thank Goodness!</div>
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<span id="goog_1386404692"></span><span id="goog_1386404693"></span><br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-76577813650483138272013-07-02T08:19:00.000-07:002013-07-02T08:19:45.160-07:00Work ContinuesSummer is here, the weather has been warm - some days hot - and work continues on our house. The phases we are on now seem to be taking a lot longer to do than I anticipated but progress is being made.<br />
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With the plastering done above the roof on the battery shed, straw bales were stacked.<br />
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There will be a rock and cement splash-back all around the perimeter of the house to help keep any rain from getting to the earthen plaster and bales. I had never really worked with cement, except when we poured the footings for the inside walls. And I certainly have never done any rock work! There wasn't a lot on YouTube so I visited my friend Pat who builds a lot of rock covered homes to see how they do it. Armed with a little knowledge and NO experience I started.</div>
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Rock for the first course. All rocks are coming from on the property.</div>
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Not bad for a days work!</div>
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Splash-back done, it was time to experiment with the earthen plaster recipe I've come up with.</div>
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The first coat is a slip of just earth and water. Think chocolate mousse. This goes on pretty easy and makes the first coat of plaster easier to apply. It goes on by hand so that it can be pushed deeply into the straw. I was pretty much covered in mud! Fun!!!</div>
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Here are the ingredients for the plaster: earth, sand, horse manure and straw. Just add water and mix!</div>
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Burlap is used to cover the wood parts. I dipped it into the slip and then applied to the posts. I also found that it worked really well over loose straw. I'm sure I'll be using a lot of this as plastering continues.</div>
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Here's the battery shed with the first coat of plaster. The first coat is called the "discovery" coat as it shows all the lumps and bumps that will need to be evened out with the next - or fill - coat. But for now, the bales are covered so it's on to more rock work.</div>
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The first step was to collect more rocks.</div>
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Then I started on the south-facing wall.</div>
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Wall done and corner turned! This is very slow work and I find that I really have to focus on one rock at a time and not think about how long it's taking me!</div>
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While I've been working on the rock wall, Rick has been working on installing the windows and doors we have. The first door he installed was the door to the battery shed. (See picture above) It's a really cool hand-made door that we got at the Habitat Re-Store in Santa Fe. Quite a find!</div>
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The next door was this one which leads into the garage. It, too, is hand-made. We bought it a few years ago from some friends in Abiquiu. We're really happy with the way it looks.</div>
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This is one of the really nice French doors we got at the auction last winter. It was quite challenging to install but we got it done - despite the rain that started about half way through! It is really cool to see how this door looks installed. We are going to have a lovely space in the studio on the other side of this door!</div>
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This is the picture window over the banco in the sun space. Rick had to build the frame. I think it looks great! We plan on installing square glass blocks with beer bottles in between in the space above the window. I will be able to see the Pedernal (reflected in the window) from the comfort of my window seat inside. Sun will stream in these windows in the winter making for a warm and lovely space.</div>
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These are the windows in the garage. I picked them up a number of years ago with the idea of building a little studio. That never happened so they are being put to good use here. More Habitat finds!</div>
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Often you can find new windows at the Habitat Re-Store. This is one I picked up - oh, maybe 10 or 11 years ago! We've been storing it all that time and now it's installed! This is the window where my work space will be. Here again I will have a view of the Pedernal from my desk.</div>
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Yet another Habitat window. This is by Rick's work space.</div>
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Now we're ready to install the big window in the office. This is one of the great windows we got in the auction. Brand new and still in it's packaging. Here Rick is preparing the opening.</div>
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I'm not quite sure how we did this as the window weighed in at about 200 pounds (according to a sticker on the window) but we managed to get it in - square and plumb!</div>
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All of a sudden we have space inside the house where we've been storing all of these doors and windows AND we have doors that open and close beautifully, that we can walk through and windows where there has been plastic for the last 9 months or so. It's starting to really look cool!</div>
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We have a friend coming over tomorrow to help us with the last French door and the big window in the living room. We have ordered all the rest of the doors and windows and they should arrive in another couple of weeks.</div>
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In the mean time, I will continue my rock work and at some point soon the major plastering will start! Anyone want to come help?</div>
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With the inside walls framed it was time to raise the vigas into place and build the decking over the studio and bath and bedroom. But first, Rick wanted to put up his "painting wall"<br />
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That done it was on to the vigas. Even though these vigas are very old they are still VERY heavy. It took our friend Sam and Rick a little time to figure out the best way to get them up.<br />
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Once they figured it out, it went pretty smoothly.</div>
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Rick and Sam got up two vigas and Rick and I got up the last two with the help of a heavy duty car jack.</div>
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Deck on - storage space galore!</div>
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The next task was to get all of the vegas up over the bedroom/bath area. This was more of a challenge because 1) the vigas in general were bigger and 2) we were not going to have the same maneuvering space we had for the studio. We ended up bring them in through the windows in the sunspace. This was a big job and it took four of us!</div>
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Taking a break. I wanted to get a picture of the process happening but I was outside holding one end up while the guys worked on getting the viga up and over the top plate. My hands were occupied!</div>
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This is what the vigas look like from the living room.</div>
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Sleeping loft! There will be a short wall/railing all around.</div>
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Before we can start plastering the outside (which we hope to get done before the summer rains start - that is assuming [and hoping] we HAVE summer rains) we have to build the battery shed. This is where the solar batteries will be stored and it's on the north side of the house.</div>
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It will have straw bale walls but they won't go up until after the roof is on.</div>
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In the process of putting up the rafters I realized that it was going to be VERY difficult to get in there to plaster between the bond beam and soffits if I waited until AFTER the roof went up so I quickly mixed up a batch of mud plaster. Luckily I had done some tests and had a "recipe" all ready to make. This is the first plaster on the house!</div>
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As I'm mixing up the dirt, sand, straw and horse manure I suddenly feel this connection to all the Pueblo and Hispanic women who have done this very same thing over the generations. Traditionally mud plastering in our neck of the woods was always the job of the women of the pueblos and villages. It's an honor and joy to be a part of that tradition!</div>
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<br />katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17734991900660735595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890995329324849618.post-63938143030501170882013-05-23T15:49:00.001-07:002013-05-23T16:16:53.834-07:00Framing!It's been three weeks since I last posted and as I was going through all the photos, getting them ready to write the blog I realized just how much we've gotten done! This has been a very exciting phase as all of a sudden (well maybe not so sudden) we have ROOMS. I really expected the house to start feeling smaller but the opposite seems to have happened. It feels very roomy and open - still!<br />
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Neither Rick or I had really ever done any framing so we spent a lot of time reading books and looking up You Tube videos online. (I'm not sure how we would have gotten as far as we have without You Tube and the internet!) But at some point we had to start.<br />
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But first I had to finish the adobe wall between the bedroom and sunspace.<br />
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That done, it was on to the framing.</div>
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First thing was to haul the wood inside.</div>
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Here you see the sill plates going in on the studio wall.</div>
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Pantry, bath and bedroom</div>
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First stud installed (by a stud <G>) The 2 x 6s that we're using are 14 feet long. This was not quite long enough and we had to attach another piece so it would reach all the way!</div>
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First section done.</div>
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Framing in the door.</div>
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Office wall done. There will be a lovely French door installed here.</div>
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First studs up for the wall between the studio and living room.</div>
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Corner turned.</div>
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This is the wall separating the studio from the hallway. Rick had work work he had to do so I framed this wall all by myself! Fun!!</div>
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As you can see, the ceiling will be very high! (It will eventually be covered with aspen T&G.) The wall between the hall and studio will go all the way up, too, but first we need to install the floor to the storage space. There will be vigas that will span from the bond beam to the short wall and will stick out about 18". Should look really nice!</div>
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A glass artist friend of ours in San Diego gave us this window that she made. There's a pane missing (which she is in the process of replacing) but we think it will look really lovely. This will let more light into the hall. We have been carrying this window around with us for almost 13 years! It's nice to finally have a home for it.</div>
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When we first moved to Youngsville almost 9 years ago one of our neighbors gave us a bunch of vigas that came out of a log cabin he had disassembled in the village. We are using them to construct the ceilings here and in the studio but decided we also wanted one at the corner of the kitchen.</div>
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Another salvaged piece of wood that we've had hanging around for a number of years was this 6x6. It makes for a perfect beam over the adobe wall in the bedroom.</div>
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Sunspace wall framed.</div>
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Kitchen wall framed. That piece of viga hanging out in mid air on top of the wall is there so we can see what it will look like once all the vigas are up. The ceiling will go on top of the vigas.</div>
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We needed a way to attach the framed walls to the straw bale walls. This is what we came up with: 2x2s pounded into the straw to which the stud is then attached.</div>
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Walls are framed and the final top plate is going up.</div>
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Looking toward the living space from the door to the garage.</div>
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Pantry! (Can't wait!!)</div>
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Bath - this is an L shaped room. I'm standing in the hall looking toward where the shower will be.</div>
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This will be our view from the bed.</div>
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Bird's eye view from the dinning room looking first east (on the left) and then south toward the studio.</div>
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Speaking of birds. We have had a number of birds join us in the house. One morning I got there and two morning doves flew out! We also had a humming bird visit. But the most fun has been a pair of swallows. They have been hanging out and singing to me almost daily. </div>
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Phase III will be the instillation of the vigas over the studio and bath/bedroom area onto which the floor will be built. These vigas are big and heavy! So we've started moving them from where we've had them stored for almost 9 years to the house - a couple at a time. Getting them up will be a challenge but we think we've figured out how to do it.</div>
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Starting to off load the first two vigas.</div>
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No telling how old this wood is but you can be sure it came from close by. The growth rings are VERY narrow and close together signifying that this tree grew in an area where there is not much rain and slow growth. </div>
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Garage</h3>
The first thing we did was get a lot done on the garage. Openings for windows and door had to be cut.<br />
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Then the OSB had to be covered.</div>
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Rick had to build windows. Windows had to then be installed</div>
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Rick's beautiful door. Door installed.</div>
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Plumbing rough done and inspected. Weather warming up. Time to pour footings! Our electrician borrowed a gas powered cement mixture and he and a friend came and helped us. I felt we could get it all done in a day but, with Samuel and Antonio's help, we got it done in a morning!</div>
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Samuel and Antonio preparing the first batch of cement.</div>
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First footing done!</div>
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Footings poured!</div>
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Lucy's helping us get ready to put up the big post.</div>
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First adobes ready for instillation. It's been over a year since I did the trombe walls and it took me a little time to remember how to mix the mud.</div>
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Our next big project is to finish framing all the inside wall so that the electrician and plumber can finish the rough-ins. I've never done framing so this will be another learning experience. We hope to get started on the first wall in the next few days. Until then, I will continue laying adobes.</div>
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<i>"I am so in awe of your building your own home." </i><br />
<i>"You never cease to amaze me . . ." </i><br />
<i>"You guys are awesome!" </i><br />
<i>"You're amazing!"</i><br />
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Now I don't think I've ever been called amazing before but I get that a lot lately. And it has been food for thought. While we ARE amazed at what we are doing, we don't feel amazing. It IS amazing to wake up in the morning and look out the window at our house that we're building! (This time last year we had just started putting up the framing.)<br />
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But do I FEEL amazing? No. I just feel like someone who has had a dream, researched how to make that dream come true and has taken the steps to make it happen.<br />
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It's a lot like making a casserole. Or designing a sweater. Or sewing an outfit. Or building a model railroad. You decide what it is you want to make. You make a "parts" list. You define the steps and in what order. Then you start with step one and take it one step at a time from there. Really! It's that simple!!! And that's what we've done.<br />
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About 6 or 7 years ago I singed up for and took a number of adobe building classes at a local collage. We are fortunate to have one of the most knowledgable adobe builders in the US in our little community (Quentin Wilson). One of the many things I learned from him is that building a house is not rocket science. He really helped demystify the whole process for me. And gave me the opportunity to experience the process first hand. While I've been around builders all my life, before I took those classes I had never really used a power tool! Now I think I'm pretty handy with all the power tools we have!<br />
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He also impressed up us the thought that we should always be willing to ask for help. While we've done most of the work ourselves we have had the help of wonderful friends when we've needed it. That's been a lifesaver!!!!<br />
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What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that we're really not that special or "amazing". We're just doing what folks have done since the beginning of time. We're building a house to live in! It's exciting, it's challenging and it's stimulating! But it's not rocket science! It just takes the willingness to say "what the hell" and take that first step.<br />
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We may not be amazing but this experience sure has been! And continues to be! What a ride!!!!!<br />
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And at the end of this ride we'll have a wonderful house in which to live, work and play!<br />
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When last I wrote, we had just finished putting up stakes and strings for the inside walls for the bedroom, bath and pantry. I've spent the last three weeks trenching and building forms.</div>
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Forms in place. They only go so far because trenching for the plumbing needs to be done before the rest of the forms can be put in place.</div>
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This pictures shows the footing where the three foot high adobe wall separating the sun space from the bedroom will go. There will be a wooden post at the end of the adobe wall that will go up to the ceiling. The post will be some more wood from the old bridge. There will be an opening into the bedroom but no door.</div>
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Here you can see the trenching I've done for the plumbing. The shallower trench on the left is for the cold water from the pressure tank that will be in the garage. Hot water will also go in this trench from the on-demand hot water heater in the bathroom back to the washer in the garage and forward toward the kitchen. I know this trench looks shallow but there will be maybe 6 more inches of dirt for the floor once the trench is filled in.</div>
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Trenching done I can now finish the forms.</div>
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The biggest challenge here has been dirt management. The soil is very dry and loose and I had to be careful where I put it. More than once I realized that I had piled dirt over a spot where I was going to have to trench. Often I would add to the pile only to have it roll down the mound back into the trench! Thought about running a hose into the house to wet down the dirt but with all that exposed straw, I felt that would be tempting fate. We will just have to live with the loose soil until we can refill all the trenching - after the plumbing is installed - and the concrete footings are poured.</div>
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While we're waiting for the plumbing to be resolved we have moved back into the garage to finish the east end. We will be installing two non-opening windows plus a small access door. Quite a while back, we picked up some double pane windows at the Habitat Re-Store and this past week Rick built frames for them.</div>
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I decided to start with the wall between the office and studio as it was the least complex. Here you see that the ditch has been dug and the first form board installed. The footings will be 8" deep and 8" wide so I had to first set a string at the height of the grade beam. Then I dug down to give the depth that I needed. Then, using the string as a guide, I started setting the forms. The notch on the left is the step-down for the door into the office.</div>
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Here the form is finished and the rebar is in place.</div>
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Then it was on to the wall between the studio and the rest of the house. This was a bit more difficult as there is a diagonal. The wood for the forms needed to be cut so that we'd have a nice, sharp edge where the diagonal meets the other two walls.</div>
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Here you can see the strings that have been laid out. The wood is there so that I didn't trip over the strings. It sort of helped <g></div>
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Forms are done.</div>
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Our new fur-baby, Lucy, checks it out.</div>
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A detail showing the rebar.</div>
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Bird's eye view (and we've had birds in the house!)</div>
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Since our floors are going to be earthen, while digging the footings, we also have to trench for the propane and water.</div>
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Here you can see two PVC sleeves - one for the water and one for the propane. We will have a sink in the studio with an on-demand hot water heater plus a small propane back-up heater in the office.</div>
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This is just to the right of the photo above. This trench will follow the wall around the perimeter of the living room to the kitchen, bath and under the bedroom to the water pressure tank in the garage. Trenching will also have to be done for the black-water drain. All of the plumbing will have to be roughed in before the footings can be poured.</div>
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Next is on to staking the walls for the bedroom, bath and pantry. But first the space needed to be cleared out.</div>
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In order to get the level of the top of the footings the same height as the grade beam, Rick got to use his nifty laser level.</div>
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There have been many times over the last year and a half where we have marked out these walls - just to get a sense of what the spaces were going to "feel" like. This time it's for real! We have done some futzing with the room sizes and wall locations and finally feel we have them the way we want them. (If you click on the picture you will get a bigger version of it that will allow you to see the words marking the rooms.) The wall between the bedroom and the sunspace on the right (where Rick is walking) will only be a 3 foot high adobe wall so the bedroom will be open to the sunspace. It will be nice!</div>
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Good progress is being made and if we can get the plumbing in and inspected soon, we will be right on course to pour the concrete footings as soon as the nights warm up.</div>
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