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Information Overload on Ramming Earth
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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 project here in Dallas, Texas. Blogs tell a great story, but don't really make information easy to find all the time.
Take for instance my favorite Rammed Earth Blog (Rammed Earth is for Everyone). This is a great blog chalk full of information, however I continue to find new great post that have been there for years, just because it is a blog format and not organized by subject. I am at a loss of what categories will be good to sort post into... actually I have some ideas, but want any comments to this post to not be polluted with my thinking. I am hoping that others will think of something I have not considered.
As we build both this site and this blog I hope to have projects that people can follow (our projects as well as the projects of others (yes you can blog your project here). I hope to have instructions not only on building but also thoughts on working with building inspectors and builders not familiar with the medium. I hope that this will be a place that truly helps people do their own projects whether they do everything themselves or just contract everything out.
Don't be afraid to share what you know and we can all benefit from each others knowledge and experiences. It is our intention to make this a site that will benefit everyone that is interested in doing Rammed Earth (or using earth as a construction medium). If you have any ideas on information we need here, please let us know.
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I commend you on your effert to both build and blog for all to see that it is possible to build your own rammed earth home. As a rammed earth contractor in NM I constantly search for information of all types to better inform myself of what is out there that can be useful for all to benefit from. It will be fun to watch this project. Keep your head up and ram baby ram.
Gary, thank you for your note and the link to your site. (Others just need to click on Gary's name in his post to see the web site.) The first video I saw there is great. I envy you and the climate you are able to build in. The low night-time temperatures make rammed earth the perfect alternative for energy efficient building. Here in Dallas during the summer we have many nights that never go below 80 degrees. Heat is the real issue. We are building our home in the shade due to this high heat in the hopes that we can keep wall temperatures lower due to them never being in the sun. Do you have any experience of building rammed earth so the walls are in the shade?
Great post with valuable ideas. Spell check may improve it. Now we need an organizational system for this site to make information more easily available. We may want to look at how books on rammed earth are organized. Value of rammed earth, site selection and testing, foundation, selection, testing and preparation of earth, building of forms, ramming the walls, windows and doors, these and other categories may be sections of our web site we may want to start filling up. ...and I spell checked this note and had one error...