Clay house building history. Do-it-yourself house made of straw and clay
The understandable desire of every person to build their own home often faces the issue of choosing a building material. For a long time, mankind has found a simple and economical way out - to use agricultural waste in construction, and to use widespread clay as a binder. Almost anyone can build a house using straw and clay.
The history of the technology of houses made of straw and clay
This technology has a long history, has been worked out to the smallest detail, and in recent years has gradually become increasingly popular as an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional methods of building buildings for various purposes. In Rus', traditionally, this method of construction was the lot of the poorest segments of the population. And even now, with a certain skill, the initial components of the main mixture can be stocked in sufficient quantities for almost nothing. Of course, the amount of grain cultivated in the middle zone of our country has significantly decreased in recent times, but the expanding dairy and beef cattle breeding, poultry farming and other livestock industries contribute to the expansion of arable land and the development of grain farming in our "risk zone".
Clay for such houses is literally under your feet, you just need to arm yourself with a shovel and prepare the required amount. It should be noted that the most promising is the so-called "fat clay", containing no more than 15% sand. Since ancient times, it has been noted that clay reaches its highest quality after winter storage, so it is advisable to harvest it in the summer, put it under a canopy that excludes moisture and plan the construction of buildings in the spring.
Building a foundation for a house made of straw and clay
Thatched houses are frame structures, therefore, before proceeding with the use of prepared natural materials, it is necessary to make the foundation of the house and the frame of the walls. Due to the fact that the main component of the building mixture is straw - light, porous plant residues, the total mass of the structure is not large. Therefore, there is no need to make a powerful foundation. It may well be suitable tape of small thickness or columnar. Lay a strapping from a beam with a section of 100 × 150 millimeters on the base elements and install the vertical elements of the wall frame on it, connecting them to each other with an upper strapping and several transverse parts that serve to limit window and door openings, as well as to increase the strength of the walls.
The next step in building a house is preparing the mixture. To do this, carefully dried straw without inclusions of grass, as well as traces of decay, place in any suitable container of sufficient volume. It can be a concrete mixer, a disused bathtub, or a hole in the ground lined with plastic wrap.
Pour a sufficient amount of clay (clay milk) carefully diluted in water into the straw.
Straw should not be heavily waterlogged, should not float in clay, but only moistened with it as thoroughly as possible.
You can mix the ingredients of the mixture using a mechanized tool or a manual one, such as a pitchfork or a shovel. After preparing a sufficient amount of material, we proceed to tamping it into the walls.
Installation of formwork and laying the walls of a thatched house
For these purposes, it is necessary to prepare a removable formwork from sheet wood materials or plank boards.
The process is much more convenient to carry out together: one of the workers lays the straw with clay into the wall space, and the other rams the material into the formwork with improvised means.
Thus, they act at the entire height of the walls, gradually moving the formwork and attaching it to the frame elements using self-tapping screws. In order to avoid the destruction of the part of the walls being built of the future clay house, all work is best done in a dry period of time. To increase the strength, it is necessary to allow the compacted part of the wall to partially dry out and continue working, moistening the upper part of the lower layer with diluted clay to a thicker consistency.
Clay house exterior
To give a better appearance, the walls from the outside must be plastered with lime mortar, consisting of a mixture of lime, sand and water. Previously, for the purpose of additional thermal insulation, it is recommended to fix self-made straw or reed mats made from bunches of plant materials tied with linen thread to the surface of the walls.
The interior of the walls can be finished with clay mortar, since the humidity in the room is minimal and will not adversely affect the material.
roof construction
Installation of the roof is carried out only after the walls dry out sufficiently and acquire maximum strength. Roofing material can be chosen depending on the preferences of future home owners. With sufficient steepness of the slope, the roof can be made of the same material as the walls. To do this, bundles of straw moistened with clay are laid on a solid crate and smoothed with a shovel for maximum surface smoothness. In the event of the formation of small depressions in which water can accumulate, the integrity of the roof will be at risk.
A house built of clay with the addition of straw has high ecological and biological qualities. It retains heat well, the walls have a low mass, and the cost of construction is minimal compared to any other natural or artificial substances. It is possible that in the near future this technology will be widely used in the construction of not only residential, but also administrative buildings.
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Clay, straw and wood are optimal natural products - they are readily available and cheap. And more and more enthusiasts are found who sculpt clay walls or build houses from clay blocks. They don't look like old-fashioned huts at all. These are modern energy-saving and even passive houses. This article will talk about different technologies for the construction of buildings from clay.
The trend towards a return to natural materials in construction is based on the use of solutions that do not require energy for production. These are old methods, tested in today's world and adapted to current needs. The properties of natural materials and modern processing technology make it possible to build buildings that meet current technical requirements. Proponents of building with clay, straw and wood argue that these materials do not contain toxic and unhealthy substances. If material from the nearest suburb is used, this will reduce transport costs and reduce CO2 emissions into the environment. Materials are almost never transformed, very little energy is spent for their manufacture, and construction waste is returned to nature without polluting the natural environment. After the end of the operation of the house, the building material can be recycled or decompose in the ground in a short time.
The main advantages of clay houses
Advantages of clay and straw houses: 
Microclimate regulation - clay walls naturally absorb and evaporate moisture. This feature suggests that a constant air humidity is kept at an appropriate level inside the clay house.
Heat and sound insulation - walls made of clay and straw have a low coefficient
heat transfer while storing heat. This reduces the demand for energy for heating. In addition, such walls provide very good sound insulation of the building.
Fire resistance - Clay and straw or wood walls are resistant to fire. It is only necessary to make a sufficiently thick and durable protective layer of clay or lime plaster.
Clay in two versions
Clay can hold straw (and other fillers) together, or bind it like plaster. If the clay is mixed with a large amount of straw or other fillers (for example, sawdust, chips or expanded clay granules), the so-called light clay will be obtained. The weight of such a mass is 100 kg/m3. If the building material is characterized by good insulating components (straw or expanded clay), then it can be very warm. Heavy clay is a mixture of clay with sand and a small amount of straw or sawdust, as well as simply compacted clay. Its weight is more than 1t/m3. Clay has a high coefficient of thermal conductivity, so the wall in a year-round house needs constant thermal insulation.
clay blocks
Clay blocks, called clay bricks, are made in manual or hydraulic presses. The clay is mixed with plenty of straw, shaped and left to dry (without firing). From such blocks, using clay or lime-clay mortar, it is possible to construct external and internal load-bearing walls, as well as half-timbered structures (the so-called Prussian wall). They are a good base (with high adhesion) for natural plaster. Blocks can be made directly at the construction site or you can buy ready-made ones.
Monolithic walls made of light clay
A mixture of clay and straw is made as for blocks, but the mass is compacted into an open formwork and thickened. Usually this technique is used for the construction of external rough walls, but can be used for the construction of internal thin walls. For the construction of monolithic walls, you can also resort to a mixture of clay not only with straw, but also with other fillers, such as expanded clay, reeds, sawdust or wood trimmings that remain after felling or woodworking at a sawmill. 
Straw blocks plastered with clay or lime
The supporting structure (traditionally wooden, post-transom) is filled with compressed blocks of straw 45x49x80 cm in size and with a density of 80 kg/m3. Straw contains air, which is a good insulator. The heat transfer coefficient U of compressed straw is 0.09 W/(m2K), which, with the most used wall thickness of 45 cm, gives a heat transfer coefficient U = 0.12 - 0.13 W/(m2K) (comparable to 20 cm of expanded polystyrene). This makes it possible to use this technique in the construction of a passive house. You can also build without a structure - the load-bearing wall is made up of straw blocks covered with several layers of natural plaster.
Such blocks are able to carry the load without the help of wooden poles. For self-supporting structures, either blocks of a standard size are used (their volumetric weight must be at least 90 kg / m3), or wider - with a thickness of 70-120 cm.
Clay laid in layers by hand
This technique uses a lot of clay and few aggregates. With hands and feet, blocks of earth are mixed with straw and sand and placed on the foundation. Walls with a thickness of about 60 cm do not require a supporting structure. They are covered with lime plaster. This technique makes it possible to independently create arbitrary shapes. In it, you can make internal accumulative walls (sometimes called thermal mass). Clay has good heat capacity and high inertness. In winter, such a wall can act as a heat accumulator from the sun or a stove and additionally heat the room. In summer, cooled by water or air, it will be like a radiator - lowering the temperature in the room.
The hand laid clay technique can be combined with others such as the straw bale technique. Then the structure is very strong.
Clay rammed into formwork
The walls are raised starting from the construction of wooden or steel formwork on the foundation. Clay is laid in batches into the formwork and compacted, most often with manual pneumatic hammers. After appropriate thickening, the next layer is laid and compacted. And so on until the walls of the required height are formed. A wall made of rammed clay (usually 30-60 cm thick) has thermal parameters similar to those of a solid brick, so such an outer wall requires additional insulation. But it can also serve as an internal thermal mass. The earth rammed into the formworks gives unusual aesthetic effects, which can be emphasized by adding pigments to the individual layers. For this reason, such walls are rarely plastered, although sometimes it is necessary.
clay with wood
Load-bearing walls that rise from logs or stumps set across the wall and smeared with a mass of clay and sawdust as an insulating layer. Walls can be impregnated or covered with natural plasters. Pine or spruce wood makes up about half of the volume of the wall. The characteristic round sections of stumps are visible on the unplastered façade.
In the past, this type of straw and clay construction, usually avant-garde and unconventional, was resorted to through poverty, economy and the need to use inexpensive local materials. In the future, the latter criterion may become a priority for modern housing construction. The rapidly depleting natural resources of our planet, the constant increase in their prices, as well as the need to save energy during the construction and operation of the house are gradually forcing us to reconsider traditional approaches to construction and change our views.
To date, the materials used in the construction of houses are very diverse. Housing is built from aerated concrete and, or logs, brick or stone. Along with these popular materials, straw has been increasingly preferred lately, allowing you to build a warm and reliable structure with a very modest budget. With strict observance of all technologies for building a straw house, it can be much warmer, cheaper, stronger and more reliable than its stone and brick "brothers".
The project of a modern eco-friendly house made of straw
The first thatched houses began to be erected in America in the middle of the 19th century. Very often, the wood that was used in the construction of structures was not enough, but there was an abundance of straw in the fields. The first officially registered straw house is a school building in Nebraska at the end of the 19th century, the walls of which were completely eaten by cows a few years later. This is probably why pressed blocks of straw in the very near future began to be supplemented with a strong frame made of logs.
A little later, the construction of houses made of straw for the most diverse purposes began with might and main, the area of \u200b\u200bwhich reached 70 square meters. m. These were schools, shops, residential buildings, cowsheds, vegetable stores and even luxurious small estates.
However, already in the middle of the twentieth century, straw housing construction, as a result of the emergence of more modern building technologies, began to gradually lose ground. Despite this, the idea of building inexpensive and at the same time reliable structures did not leave human minds. At the end of the last millennium, these ideas grew into a whole movement towards.
The greatest importance for the popularization of thatched houses was the interest of architects, thanks to which the construction of the most unusual architectural and planning solutions began to be erected in America. The revival of straw-block construction was supported by television and print publications, which included The New York Times and National Geographic magazine.
Gradually, houses began to be built in various climatic zones and countries: Australia, Chile, Canada, Mexico, France and, of course, in the USA. In Russia, the very first house made of straw blocks was built in the village of Mayak (near Chelyabinsk) in 1994. Houses made of straw bales with various fillers (clay, sand, slurry) were known in Rus' as adobe houses. In warm regions, such construction is popular to this day.
How to build a straw house with your own hands
As a building material, blocks of pressed straw with dimensions of 35 * 45 * 90 cm are used. They are tied with a nylon cord or wire. In the manufacture of blocks, flax, rye or wheat straw is used, in addition, hay can be used. It is worth noting separately that the straw in the blocks is usually pressed so tightly that it is impossible to burn through the bale even with a blowtorch. Thanks to this, straw houses are not exposed to moisture. Raindrops can penetrate the treated walls and roof no deeper than 5 cm.
Blocks for construction are made, as a rule, of a rectangular shape. Their size depends on the length of the stem: the longer it is, the larger the block and, accordingly, more reliable. During construction, you can use not only dry straw blocks, but also impregnated with clay mortar. Before starting installation work, the compressed bale is dipped in a clay solution, after which it is thoroughly dried for a certain time. Thanks to these actions, it is possible to achieve accurate wall geometry, as well as high fire safety and strength.
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But here it is worth noting a number of some shortcomings: such walls keep heat worse, dry for too long, and can become moldy. This technology is called “light adobe”, since the amount of clay in such a compressed block does not exceed 10% of the total weight.
After the foundation is prepared and the necessary supply of straw bales is available, the installation of doorways and walls can begin. The standard height of a straw block wall is, on average, 5-6 rows. The construction of houses from such blocks does not present any difficulties, since only a crane is required for their laying. Straw is a very convenient material that allows you to build buildings of almost any architectural complexity.
Straw bale stacking Straw blocks can be used as load-bearing walls, but strong frames should be used to more reliably strengthen the structure. The frameless option involves laying out load-bearing walls directly from the straw blocks themselves, fastened to each other using a special mortar or vertical stakes. If desired, instead of wooden stakes, you can use plastic or metal rods, the lower end of which is attached to the foundation, and the nut for the coupler to the upper end.
The scheme of building a wall of straw The main advantages of this type of construction are the ease of construction and the low cost of the house. Keep in mind that when arranging a heavy and architecturally complex roof, the construction of frames will be a prerequisite, even despite the high density of blocks.
Straw frame houses involve building, first of all, a wooden supporting frame, between the beams of which straw blocks are carefully laid. The structure of the frame is exactly the same as in the construction of simple frame houses. Blocks should either be tightly packed into the frame, or additionally strengthened with a special solution, rods or stakes. If desired, you can build a double frame, so that the bearing capacity will become even higher. Double frames are able to withstand even the heaviest metal or wooden roofs.
A drawing of a frame house made of straw blocks After the window openings and walls are fully prepared, you can begin to tighten the house along the frame with plastic tapes. Due to this, the straw will shrink, which will make the plastering process more convenient. If all these conditions are carefully met, then the house will not settle for several years. Keep in mind that straw blocks must be laid at a slight elevation above the floor, which will protect them from moisture. When creating unusual architectural designs, straw blocks must be carefully trimmed with a chainsaw.
Before finishing the interior and exterior walls, the gaps between the blocks are eliminated with the help of small bundles of straw, which are first dipped in liquid clay. On top of the stacked straw blocks, a polymer or metal mesh is attached, with a further application of a layer of plaster with a thickness of about 75 mm.
Plaster is a reliable protection against rodents, fire, moisture and other troubles. On top of it, you can perform any decorative finish you like, for example, plasterboard wall cladding.
Straw, as a natural building material, makes it possible for many people to fulfill the dream of living in their own eco-friendly house, and saving a significant amount on its construction.
In this article, we will briefly analyze the main features of the construction of a frame thatched house with our own hands.
The frame construction of a building using straw blocks consists of several stages:
- Foundation preparation;
- Installation of the frame, which is filled with blocks of pressed straw;
- Roof erection;
- Finishing outside and inside with clay for wall insulation.
By itself, the technology can be represented by two options:
- from pressed straw slabs;
- from adobe - a mixture of straw and clay.
Before starting work, you need to make sure the amount of prepared material for building a house.
Important! If you prepare straw blocks yourself, then it would be more correct to prepare the raw materials in late August or early autumn, because. in the spring it is very difficult to find it without signs of mold.
In order to preserve our building material when postponing work, it is advisable to put it in a specially equipped barn or room with good ventilation and hydro-protection from moisture.
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In case of force majeure, when the frame of the house has already been delivered, it is also possible to make a temporary finish and place straw blocks inside the future premises.
The principle of construction our future structure is as follows:
- for the construction of walls, fresh and dry straw with a golden hue is used, which is pressed into rectangular blocks with stiffeners;
- blocks of this material are neatly connected without displacement;
- the bottom row is laid, and after that it is necessary to caulk all the seams between the straw slabs;
- subsequent rows are connected with rods that are pierced through;
- vertical seams are processed as the rows are laid;
- horizontal seams are processed at the stage when the wall is already standing;
- the next stage is shingling using scraps of boards up to 50 mm thick, which are fastened together with stapler brackets at an angle of 45 degrees;
- the resulting voids between shingles and straw are laid with adobe.
Second way construction of a private house - a mixture of straw and clay.
In this case, it turns out in stages - the construction of walls by analogy with bricklaying, or with the help of formwork for laying rammed material. This method allows you to get strong walls like a monolithic structure, along the perimeter of which there is a strapping and the builders install a roof from any desired material.
The building, in which the straw blocks were the main material, will always keep warm, and not keep the housing from dampness.
At the earliest stage of the whole process - designing and drawing up a plan for the future structure, it is necessary to immediately decide what material our roof will be made of.
The type of roof also depends on the technology option mentioned above.
When building according to the method of a straw frame house, the future roof can be made of any material, however, by sobriety of judgment, everyone understands that it is better to abandon heavy materials, such as natural tiles.
The second method makes it necessary to carefully analyze the load indicators on all the walls of the house. The best option in this case would be to mount a hip roof, with a large protrusion of the cornice overhangs.
The final stage is the finishing of the straw house with clay in several layers.
Important! If slabs with a density of 200 kg / sq.m and higher were used for the walls, it is possible to apply the "plaster mortar" almost immediately, otherwise it is advisable to wait 1-2 weeks for shrinkage.
The solution should not consist only of cement, since this type of material does not allow the walls to "breathe" properly. As a result, insurmountable consequences can form.
The composition of the clay solution includes lime and clay, and the cement one - a little cement of the middle liquid:
1st option:
Clay - 1 unit.
Lime dough - 0.4 units.
Sand - 4 units.
2nd option:
Cement - 1 unit.
Sand - 3-4 units.
Lime milk - 1-2 units.
Straw walls intended for plastering should be reinforced with a mesh of no more than 3 cm.
The first plaster layer should be applied up to 4 cm - to hide all the irregularities of the walls.
The second plaster layer 2-3mm is the front one.
Important! Do not use vapor barrier films for the facade, because. this in any case leads to rotting of the base material.
The final stage of the exterior decoration of the house is the application of water-dispersed dyes and cladding with facade materials, or bricks.
The return to partially forgotten building technologies is associated with the trend of using natural materials. They give houses a natural coziness and have good environmental qualities.
The return to partially forgotten building technologies is associated with the trend of using natural materials. They give houses a natural coziness and have good environmental qualities. A classic example of such buildings are adobe houses, the main material of which is a mixture of clay and straw. The buildings gained their popularity for their environmental friendliness, natural regulation of the microclimate in the room and the relative ease of construction.
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Analogues of modern houses made of straw and clay existed in ancient times. Some of them have survived to this day - in the arid regions of Asia and Africa, you can find entire adobe cities. The improvement of building technologies has led to the widespread distribution of clay buildings in central Europe and modern Russia. Properly built clay houses have more than a century of service life and are safe for residents.
Visually, adobe buildings do not always differ from ordinary ones, although their main “charm” lies in the ability to give the walls an arbitrary shape and adapt them to home interior items. Numerous recesses, baths and smooth transitions strikingly distinguish clay buildings from brick and other block-cement structures.
Old technologies are rarely applied in their original form, since the performance parameters of modern homes are improved through the use of modern additives. The natural fire-fighting properties of clay, which is prone to baking at elevated temperatures, are improved by the introduction of components that increase strength characteristics.
Clay construction technology
1. Materials that should be stocked up in advance:
wooden boards and beams for building the frame of walls and roofs;
clay;
sand;
straw;
water (well or centralized water supply).
Additional materials that will be useful during the preparation and finishing stages include:
gravel - for the preparation of bedding under the foundation;
material for the manufacture of a solid or brick foundation;
flat wooden planks for upholstery of the walls of the house;
wooden (metal) formwork or mold for making blocks.
Although the house will be clay, it is better to make its foundation classic - tape. A solid and elevated base will increase the life of the house and reduce the impact of melt water on the lower part of the walls.
The place for construction should be chosen away from lowlands and access to the surface of groundwater. The optimal location of the clay house is on a hill.
In order to obtain the most durable building suitable for our latitudes, the walls are best made by pouring mortar into the formwork. You can also use clay blocks, which are laid similar to classic block structures.
A significant reduction in the cost of construction is achieved through self-extraction of clay on your site. Straw in small quantities is cheap, and the largest costs will be associated with the purchase of sand and lumber.
The straw must be dry, without rot. It is best to buy it immediately after the harvest season, and then leave it for the winter in a dry and ventilated area.
2. Solution preparation
Many authors advise using not pure clay, but its mixture with sand. Since clay and sand differ in composition for different regions, you can test their different proportions (2:1, 1:1, 1:2, etc.). The clay-sand mixture, to which water is added until a pasty consistency is obtained, should be squeezed in a fist and dropped onto a solid base from a height of 1.5-2 m. A lump of a suitable composition should not split or flatten strongly when falling.
To prepare the solution, you can use a concrete mixer or a flat base with edges curved upwards (stir the solution with your feet). Clay is crushed to a finely dispersed state, after which sand and water are added to it. The latter should not be much so that the mixture retains a highly viscous consistency and does not flow out of the formwork.
Straw is added to the resulting clay-sand solution in an amount of 30 to 60%. The more straw, the lower the thermal conductivity of the walls and their strength (you will have to limit yourself to one floor). The resulting solution is poured into the forms of formwork, exposed along the edges of the wooden frame of the house.
The frame is assembled from beams and consists of vertical and horizontal guides. On top there should be a blank for the roof, because after pouring the walls, you must immediately start covering it. The solution is poured in steps (up to 30 cm per day), after which the wall should be allowed to dry. With independent construction, the wall usually "grows" by 10-15 cm in one day cycle.
Outside, the walls are covered with a crate of straw or reed - they create an additional heat-insulating layer. The crate is fastened with a thin layer, which is pressed against the wall with wooden flat planks (nailed to wooden supports). Outside, the crate is covered with clay or lime plaster.
On top of the roof frame, upholstered with boards, tied sheaves of straw are laid, which are then leveled (the rope fastening them is cut). The straw is fixed in the same way as the crate on the wall - with wooden slats. After covering the roof, you can start coating it with a clay-sand mortar.
The process is carried out from the lower edges of the roof to the ridge. After hardening, the coating will not let moisture through, but will leave the room able to "breathe" and maintain humidity at the optimum level of 50-55%.
Feature: the pouring of the roof should be done alternately and evenly on both slopes to avoid skew.
4. Finishing the walls of the room
What is the difference between modern houses and old buildings?
To give additional tensile strength to the clay solution (straw partly copes with this), cattle dung was widely used in the past. The same solution plastered the walls of the room, called the "hut". The main disadvantage of such houses is the abundance of insects in the walls.
Now natural chaff and fire are used to increase strength. A couple of centuries ago, they were difficult to get, and now they are waste from plant processing.
An increase in strength and a decrease in shrinkage during drying is increased by the addition of crushed stone or expanded clay. The auxiliary element is sand. To increase the rate of hardening, cement or lime can be added to the clay-sand mortar. Their additives are used in construction in wet weather, aiming to reduce the risk of wetting the still wet wall material.
Casein, starch and liquid glass help to increase the viscosity of the solution during operation. The latter is an antiseptic, therefore, it additionally prevents the appearance of mold and insects.
The use of modern construction technologies, including the sublimation of a strong foundation, increases the strength and stability of the building. Instead of a clay roof, you can lay out the usual roofing material, which is closed on top with slate or tiles. This will not worsen the environmental properties of the house, but will improve performance.
To protect the house from rodents, it is necessary to provide for the presence of a thin metal mesh under the crate.
Peculiarities of caring for thatched houses
A separate item in the operation of buildings is fire safety. Clay houses, which are coated with clay or lime mortar on the outer and inner surfaces, are less prone to destruction in a fire than ordinary ones. When a flame occurs, the straw in the walls does not ignite, since air access to it is closed by a layer of clay.
Despite the high resistance to fire of the walls of adobe houses, the wooden parts of the roof do not possess it. To reduce the likelihood of their ignition, wood should be treated with flame retardants. They do not provide absolute protection against fire, but are very effective if the application technology is observed.
Construction companies involved in the construction of houses from clay and straw assure the practical impossibility of the appearance of insects in the walls. This is true only when maintaining low humidity, which is not always possible. Do not neglect the advice to use lime plaster, which will clog the walls for moisture and will inhibit the development of insects.
Before building a house, consider the location of the stove and bathroom. In places of contact with heated surfaces, reflective screens should be placed, and in wet places, waterproofing should be performed.
Adobe house: the pros and cons of the building
Advantages of adobe buildings:
clean and healthy "atmosphere";
indoors cool in summer and warm in winter;
low cost of building materials;
relative ease of construction.
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Disadvantages of straw houses:
- construction cannot be carried out in winter;
- when damp, insects start up in the walls, which “gnaw through” the wallpaper;
- weak strength in hurricane winds (less relevant on rough terrain).
It is not necessary to exalt the durability and safety of clay houses, but they should not be underestimated either. The adobe house is ideal for giving or as a summer house on a personal plot. A properly built clay house will last no less than its predecessors, but it will give more pleasant sensations and health. published
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