More walls

We are working around some light rain now. Profe. Anselmo and I spent
the better part of the day in Casas Grandes looking at an old Hacienda
and some other property. There are a lot of great adobe homes over
there. This will be in great company.

Here go the first couple of rows

It took a little while to figure out how to do the corners, but here
we go. The first couple of rows were slow going, but we hope to get a
few more guys and finish laying up the walls in a couple of days.

Footings almost done

We are at the end of another week. The weather has been good. The
builder's are excited to finally get another paycheck. They seem a
little camera shy.

Progress on the Adobe Vault Footings

Here are a few pictures of the footings. We finally got one of the
builders to stay in the picture for a minute so that you can see the
scale of everything.

Check out these Footings

We got some of the biggest rocks we could find for the 70cm x 70
cm(28inx28in) footings.

Photos of Vault 4 September

Mexico Earthen Vault

From Nuevo Casas G...

We have started the construction of an adobe vault in Nuevo Casas Grandes CHIH, Mexico. This is based on the plan for a kitchen/garage by AVN found here:

http://www.lavoutenubienne.org/IMG/pdf/cuisine_exterieure.pdf

or more floor plans are available here:

http://www.lavoutenubienne.org/IMG/pdf_Catalogo_de_ejemplos_de_los_planes_VN.pdf

Profe Anselmo Jaramillo is scheduled to come down on the 8th of September with some students to do the actual vault work. We are using no concrete. It has been really hard to find the big rocks for the foundation.

Now I know that the secret to this is to be accumulating big rocks in advance. We went a little wild with the footings. The two end walls only need to be 40cm wide, but we made them 70cm. The depth on all the footings is 70cm. These are some BIG-BOYS!!