I haven’t taken the camera out to the site recently (which is laughable, considering we live next door to it) so I’m going to go back a bit in the building history, to aspects I haven’t touched on yet.
We used grader blades for our window lintels. Grader blades are fairly plentiful out here and we’ve been collecting them for a while. They’re ridiculously solid (and equally heavy) and make great supports above the windows.
These photos are of a couple of separate windows and show the different stages. Note that the chicken wire is placed once the temporary frames are removed but before the permanent frames are in place in order to make plastering easier. (The plaster pictured is just the rough coat, to protect the bags.)
temporary frame, grader blades in place
view from outside
bags overtop the lintel
permanent frames in place, rough plaster started
great progress pics!
Thanks…!
Bigfoot
Thanks for the encouragement!
Hello! Was just wondering where you guys are building and maybe we could come take a look or give you a hand! We have been looking into building eco-housing and just stumbled upon earthbag building. Would love to find out more from someone actually building and living it!
I received your email and will get back to you asap.
Nice, how do you fix the windows in permanently
There are scabs affixed in the walls framing the window, and above. You can see a bit of them in the second picture. The permanent frames are screwed to those. I should have taken more pictures during the process…
Thanks for that …