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Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Hunter, Kaki, Kiffmeyer, Donald
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Description for Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Paperback. The only comprehensive, illustrated, step-by-step guide to building with earthbags. Series: Natural Building Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 200 Illustrations and photographs. BIC Classification: TNK; TNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 205 x 16. Weight in Grams: 665.
Over 70 percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials-straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely largely on labor rather than expensive and often environmentally-damaging outsourced materials. Earthbag Building is the first comprehensive guide to all the tools, tricks, and techniques for building with bags filled with earth-or earthbags. Having been introduced to sandbag construction by the renowned Nader Khalili in 1993, the authors developed this "Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique" over the last decade. A reliable method ... Read more
Over 70 percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials-straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely largely on labor rather than expensive and often environmentally-damaging outsourced materials. Earthbag Building is the first comprehensive guide to all the tools, tricks, and techniques for building with bags filled with earth-or earthbags. Having been introduced to sandbag construction by the renowned Nader Khalili in 1993, the authors developed this "Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique" over the last decade. A reliable method ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Condition
New
Series
Natural Building Series
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Gabriola Island, United States
ISBN
9780865715073
SKU
V9780865715073
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Ref
99-15
About Hunter, Kaki, Kiffmeyer, Donald
Kaki Hunter is an award-winning actress who has been involved in the construction industry for the last 20 years, specializing in affordable, low-tech, low-impact building methods that are as natural as possible. Together with her partner Doni Kiffmeyer, she co-developed over the last nine years the "Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique" of building affordably with earthbags and has taught the ... Read more
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