Do It Yourself Rammed Earth
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A place for rammed earth projects to be blogged about, to provide information and inspiration to others considering rammed earth. The entries run in the order they were filed.
Thank you all for keeping up with our progress. The blog posts will come long after they are completed, this is partially for security of the site as well as to give us time to write the post. I would love to start right in on…
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Some of the negatives of building anything is that there is a footprint. We tried looking as many locations for the building and the one we settled on happens to cover 2 beautiful cedar trees. This location was the best location…
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Merry Christmas! There is a lot of information on the web about Rammed Earth. I am struggling with the idea of how to structure this site to be informative and easy to use. As you know we have started blogging on our Rammed earth…
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These are photos of the first rammed earth construction in Dallas. These structures are for an entryway and…
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Our Builder, Anderson Sargent, has been in communication Designer, Chris Everett. This is the first draft of the building plan. I will follow below with the changes we need made to the plan. (I know this not the the most exciting…
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On 1-14-12 I drove with a good friend to show him the rammed earth work that was already happening in Dallas. We drove to the work being done at the facility just east of the Walnut Hill Lane Dart station. As we looked over the…
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Unfortunately This project has been put on hold once again. The city shut us down... but the good part is that it had nothing to do with it being rammed earth. They stopped the project because they said we could not have another…
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