How to Make an Adobe Brick

Pat shows Silva how to make Adobe bricks. Pat has been manufacturing bricks for homes around the country. This profession was passed down to her through her family. Watch and see what it takes to build a green home.

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• green 4 life

[56TonyT]

What do you use as a stableiser to hold the bricks together?

[tmomof6]

@scouser001cod5 do you see alot of adobe in the uk?

[tmomof6]

@ThePashtunnotpaki the woman said it will take 4 months for them to dry naturally. Adobe was never oven baked they are sun dried bricks.

[ThePashtunnotpaki]

@Poweroffemininity but the one's dried in the sun are not as good as those who are baked. Especially the ancient red bricks that has amazing kind of red color in it.

[Poweroffemininity]

@ThePashtunnotpaki : most are dried naturally in the sun. Some larger bricks for home construction are backed in a special area.

[ThePashtunnotpaki]

after the bricks are made from mud it needs to be heated by fire. The woman did not say that

[carefulcarpenter]

"If a wo/man is going to be worth but minimum wage, best to be your own boss"

~~CC

[lolfake111]

@B4realalready

Hi they use a stabiliser for exapmle bitumen emulsion but i dont know what this lady uses

[scouser001cod5]

It won't take "a couple of months!!!" it takes 3 days in the uk!!! The wettest place in the world

[filipiliescu]

@B4realalready I do not understand what kind of bricks they make. I know that after drying (21 days in the summer sun) the bricks are "cooked" in a furnance at high temperatures for several days, enough to melt a part of the sand from the brick. In dry climates sometimes are used comprimated bricks, with just mud and straws compresed in some special forms.