Products
Adobe Bricks + Supply
Beyond Adobe makes and sells two kinds of adobe bricks – pressed and puddled. We can either ship them to your location, nationwide, or we can make them on your site – whatever option is the most efficient and practical.
Below please find information on our bricks and don’t forget to check our Terms & Conditions page. If you have more questions, don’t hesitate to email or call.
For more in-depth information on adobe, including its benefits, please visit our FAQ page.
OUR ADOBES
Please note: All shipping and handling fees originate from the location of our production yard located in Camp Verde, Arizona.
Our adobes come in three standard colors: Desert Tan, Winslow Red and Black Cherry.
*2010 prices coming soon. In the meantime, please contact us for adobe brick costs.
CUSTOM SHAPES AND SIZES
A variety of colors and sizes are available as well as custom shapes and sizes for individual needs and demands.
Beyond Adobe will provide individual shapes and sizes per client requests. This is often helpful when designing custom door and window details or in matching adobe renovations for example. Prices developed with each individual order.
PRESSED ADOBES
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Stacked adobe bricks on the jobsite. |
Pressed adobe blocks (sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks) are a result of modern day applications of the time-proven tradition of the earth building.
Pressed adobe bricks utilize hydraulic presses and automation to further enhance adobe bricks. Pressed adobes are formed by mixings one’ earth with water to develop a damp, but not wet consistency. The soil is then set in the brick machine’s form, where the force of a hydraulic press, presses and compacts the soil into the desired shape and size. The bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready for building.
Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture. Pressed adobes also provide for quicker and more efficient installation because of their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density which increases the bricks thermal mass ratings. And finally, pressed adobes can be made in all seasons because of the reduced moisture contents.
PUDDLED ADOBES
Puddled adobes are formed by mixing one’s earth mix with water to develop a mud consistency. The mud is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted off the adobe when the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape without the form. The bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take from one to four weeks to fully cure depending on weather conditions.
Puddled adobes result in bricks with a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are quite the same. They provide for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed as the finish wall.
ADOBE BRICKS: SUPPLY OPTIONS
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An adobe home being built in Northern Arizona. |
It's a Traveling Adobe Show! Beyond Adobe travels throughout the southwest to make adobes on-site and to raise humble abodes. We have made bricks straddling the Mexico Border and the wind swept plains of northern Arizona. We have mixed mud in the hippie mountain towns of New Mexico and the posh heights of Phoenix.
We love to travel and it shows; the more rural the better!
Often it is more economical to make the adobe bricks on your jobsite rather than to transport the adobes from our yard. Sometimes it is impossible to transport the adobes (due to road conditions, etc) and is much more practical to make adobes on your site. Some times the dirt on he jobsite is just too good to pass up.
Either way, if you want bricks made on your jobsite, we can do it. Anything is possible.
FULL SERVICE PRODUCTION
Beyond Adobe will provide full service adobe production at your site - from sourcing earth material to palletized adobes. Full service production includes:
- Site Visit & Evaluation
- Material Sourcing
- Soil and Adobe testing
- Equipment Mobilization
- Adobe Production
- Clean-up
ADOBE MACHINE RENTAL
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An adobe wall in Sedona, Arizona. |
Beyond Adobe will provide one Operator and the Adobe Brick Machine as a rental program. Customers will be responsible for providing both the brick material as well as all labor. The Operator will ensure adobe quality control and proper performance of the machine.
Rental rates will include a per brick charge of 75 cents with a minimum daily charge of $500.00, a ravel charge to and from the client's site and a per diem charge for length of job.
If you have more questions, please don’t hesitate to email or call.
