The Rammed Earth House Paperback – June 13, 2007

The book seems to cover all the requirements that need to be known. The explanations are very clear and the photography is also very helpful in visualizing what needs to be done. The book is also very pleasant to read.

I am going to develop a cottage for very cheap! Sand is free where I want to build. Will have to bring in clay and straw. Cheap to build a frame so I get 'perfect' lines, take down the frames and re-utilize frames on the next portion of wall creation. A bit of cement on the outside and plaster on the inside and all is well. This is already insulated to draw in and accept heat, and radiate heat. In summer, it will be cool (like a basement or garage), same principle. All I will need to do is add wiring, plumbing, solar/wind turbines, well/pump and septic. I am off-grid! I have already designed the house, interior will have modular furniture that hangs from the walls so as to have open floor plan, have sofa beds to utilize space for visitors without having extra bedrooms, having a loft on a second floor for office space, plenty of windows facing east and west, solar facing south, turbines having a wind tunner facing both NW and SE as that is the direction the wind comes from here. Can't wait to perfect talents in developing rammed earth (aka cob) house in modeling a dog house for sample. Will have beams across top with sloping roof and steel roof so snow will slide off. Of course, will need spray-in insulation topside and seal the roof structure on inside. Ready to play! Cheaply too. Can even put solar pump in pond so pond won't freeze, for animals to utilize all year, pump wonderful attraction at back window. All free of monthly bills. Upfront solar and wind costs will be far less than new house purchase. Best of all the worlds! Love this book. I am so excited.I would recommend to anyone.

My fiance and I are reading this book together on Kindle, studying in anticipation of actually putting what we learn into the building of our own first home together in Kansas. We are encouraged by all the history of successful efforts by others with less technological resources available more than a half a century ago. The descriptions of each material are very complete and the photographs of houses still standing today in diverse locales give us a realistic vision to guide our own custom plan.We hope to erect a lovely, solid home that will not only be a legacy for our children (and grandchildren yet unborn) but one that may be featured in a future publication on this exciting resurrected, proven home-building paradigm.

This has great examples of Rammed Earth houses and how to make them through out the book. a good resource.

I have been reading much about rammed earth construction. Once you get past the benefits of this type of construction many questions about the method of construction still exist. On the internet it is these details that are missing. How do I make forms? How do I construct windows? Basic questions that require some detail to understand properly. We are taking on the task of building one of these homes ourselves in a 3rd world nation - without the benefit of seeing it done here in the USA. My reading to this point has left many practical gaps in being able to go from concept to implementation.Then I bought this book. WOW. You have to get it. I found myself, many times, saying I wish the author would explain "x" then.... in the next paragraph he does. How refreshing. All aspects of rammed earth are dealt with, but what makes this book great are the details of construction that are obligatorily missing in most sources online.I am very please with this book!

I bought this book because I'm researching wall systems, hoping to build a place of my own some day. After lots of study, I probably won't use the rammed earth system, but I think it's fascinating, and I will probably use this book for reference in the future. If you're interested in earth walls, this one is a must-have for your library.

Thank you so much for the wonderful service and fabulous product! The birthday boy was thrilled to have a new/replacement copy of his much beloved book.

more than six of the pages fell out of the center as soon as i opened the book. They are only pictures but still, pretty lame.

Este libro me parece una jolla. Todo está perfectamente estudiado. Si estás interesado en este tipo de construcción, este es tu libro.

Exceptional in depth book on rammed earth

Extremely fast delivery. Very happy with this book.

A well written book, with a host of information I can use