Adobe Casita
Fri Jan 14 2005 11:28 MST #So ....
Over XMAS we stayed at Brooke and Jamie's cabin in Seward, and talk a bit about cabins in general -- buying some land and building.
Rachel's co-worker David is building an adobe extension to his house this spring, and Rachel volunteered us to help out.
Having our own place to mess with might not be so bad. We've been thinking that since I moved to NM in oct.
So Monday Rachel got us a book on alternative construction, and last night we started looking at adobe building in New Mexico online.
The good thing is that if you should want to build an adobe casita New Mexico is definitely the place to do it, it seems to be the only state with state-wide building codes for adobe, rammed-earth, straw bale.
The flip side is what a pain - not only do you need land, and walls. But water sewage and electricity -- all of which look painful. And then there are building inspections. And Adobe is not adobe, you must decide to make our buy, emulsified or not, and what kind of finish to put on top.
Still the investigation looks to be fun and we'll certainly learn something even if we don't do any thing :)
My new link blog on the right has some of the interesting stuff that turned up. And has an rss feed in the RSS section.
Updated Sun Jan 16, to fix many egregious typos -- most notably misspelling my sister's name.