Earth Garden Building Book
by Dr Bob Rich & Keith Smith
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Contents
| Planning your home | 1 |
| Why build? | 1 |
| Building blues | 4 |
| Design | 7 |
| Be your own Architect | 7 |
| The design process | 7 |
| Finding three dimensions in two | 10 |
| Design games | 12 |
| Models help you to design | 15 |
| Solar efficient design | 17 |
| Living in an Alistair Knox house | 21 |
| Bushfire defensive house | 25 |
| Flood defensive house | 29 |
| Cyclone (hurricane) defensive house | 32 |
| Navigating in the Timber Framing Code | 35 |
| Earth Walls | 38 |
| Good design saves on plumbing | 38 |
| Kitchen design | 39 |
| On site | 42 |
| Safety on site | 42 |
| Site access and layout | 44 |
| Setting out the site | 48 |
| Setting out the building outline | 54 |
| Setting up | 56 |
| Bracing | 57 |
| Scaffolding | 59 |
| Homemade ladders | 65 |
| Strong foundations | 69 |
| Footings and floors | 69 |
| Concrete slab | 78 |
| Vertical concreting | 81 |
| Organising a concrete pour | 84 |
| Pouring and finishing concrete | 86 |
| Earth floors | 91 |
| Slate jigsaw floor | 92 |
| And bed floors | 94 |
| From the earth | 95 |
| Any soil will do | 95 |
| Quick & easy mudbrick moulds | 101 |
| Dropping a mudbrick | 102 |
| What is a good earth wall? | 103 |
| Rammed earth | 106 |
| Ramming tools | 109 |
| Forts in the desert | 114 |
| Mudbrick | 117 |
| Mudbrick laying | 121 |
| Mixing mortar | 124 |
| Mudbrick arches | 129 |
| Formwork cob (poured earth) | 130 |
| Earth brick presses | 135 |
| Strawbale: Low cost sustainable building with strawbale | 141 |
| Footings | 141 |
| Loadbearing strawbale walls | 143 |
| Earth-lime render for strawbale walls | 146 |
| Designing for a strawbale home | 148 |
| More about mud | 150 |
| Rendering earth walls | 150 |
| Fixing things to an earth wall | 155 |
| Many ways to mix mud | 157 |
| Puddled mudbricks | 158 |
| Mud mixing by trailer | 159 |
| How the Muddies built a monastery | 160 |
| Bottle mosaics | 163 |
| Stone endures | 165 |
| Types of building stone | 167 |
| Slipform stonework | 168 |
| Tonnes of granite | 169 |
| Fourteen slipforms | 170 |
| Splitting bush sandstone | 173 |
| Building with bluestone | 175 |
| Building stone arches | 179 |
| Two faced stonework | 180 |
| Our granite house | 184 |
| Woodworking skills | 185 |
| Measuring | 185 |
| Sawing | 191 |
| Hammering | 197 |
| Using an adze | 202 |
| Adzing tips | 202 |
| Timber | 204 |
| Post and beam design | 204 |
| Lift that pole | 209 |
| Basic pole shelter | 212 |
| Pole frame house | 214 |
| Sumatran pole house | 214 |
| Laying a timber floor | 216 |
| Building a stud-frame wall | 222 |
| Building adventures | 227 |
| Nailing on weatherboards | 228 |
| A roof overhead | 231 |
| Roof framing | 231 |
| Flat or cathedral ceiling | 235 |
| Constructing a skillion roof | 236 |
| Constructing a gable roof | 237 |
| Constructing a hip roof | 247 |
| Roof trusses | 252 |
| Putting on roof battens | 258 |
| Finishing gable ends | 259 |
| Fascia spouting | 261 |
| Nailing on roof metal | 264 |
| Sequence of roofing operations | 267 |
| The Pink Palace: mudbrick domes and vaults | 268 |
| Doors and windows | 271 |
| Hanging a door | 271 |
| Windows | 274 |
| Cutting glass | 287 |
| Puttying | 288 |
| Creative recycling | 290 |
| Creative recycling | 290 |
| Denailing | 293 |
| Car cases | 294 |
| Apple box shingles | 295 |
| Paper mudbricks | 295 |
| Appendices | 296 |
| Access directory | 296 |
| Bibliography | 300 |
| Glossary | 303 |
| Index | 311 |
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