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T-Brick Shed: Post Flood

November 7, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

The Buda area got somewhere in the vicinity of 20 inches of rain in the past two weeks. Buda gets […]

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T-Brick Shed: First Course

October 10, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

Laying out the forms for the first course. We have five 12″X12″ forms and one 18″X12″ form. Forms are all […]

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Earthbag Blitz

October 5, 2015
Earthbag, Natural Building

I took the weekend off from the T-brick shed because: A) I wanted to give the footer/grade beam a little […]

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T-Brick Shed: Pouring the Footer

September 26, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

Dad finished up the forms earlier in the week so we were able pour the footer today. A footer is […]

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T-Brick Shed: Finishing the Foundation

September 21, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

The last load of gravel for a grand total of five cubic yards. There are 27 cubic feet in a […]

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Permablitzing

September 20, 2015
Workshops

This is what I did during the part of the weekend I wasn’t shoveling gravel. Looks like fun huh? Removing […]

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T-Brick Shed: Finishing the French Drain

September 18, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

Finished up the installation of the french drain and went through two and a half cubic yards of gravel today. […]

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T-Brick Shed: Rubble Trench French Drain Installation

September 14, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

The last thing Jean told me before she left for the UK was that I had better finish the shed […]

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T-Brick Shed: Testing

September 12, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

I had planned on starting installation of the french drain and rubble trench foundation today but unfortunately/fortunately it rained earlier […]

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T-Brick Shed: Trench Leveling and Form Building

September 7, 2015
Natural Building, T-Brick Shed

The Mattock We spend part of the Labor day weekend leveling and widening the foundation trench. I bought a Mattock […]

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