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Post date: Jul 4, 2017 10:36:06 PM
The adobe walls are now up to the bottoms of the windows (except in the bathroom, where the windows are higher). Beneath each window is a relatively enormous sill — in this case a 4x9” wooden beam. On this sill sits the buck, or buck frame, that defines the rough opening for the window. With adobe construction it is very helpful to use the buck to define the ends of the walls, and that is what we have here. These adobes are nominally 10” wide and 4” thick. If they were much bigger they would be too heavy to move by hand. In practice those dimensions vary because they are formed wet, stood on edge to dry, and slump or deform somewhat in the process.
Thus the sides of the walls are quite irregular, as you can see from the photos. This does not matter, because the outside of the walls will be covered with two inches of foam (probably styrofoam) insulation plus 3/4” of stucco. The inside of the walls will be furred and covered with plasterboard but the exterior insulation will probably be nailed to the adobes with 4" twisted-shank nails.
The interior furring strips will even out the surface, provide a screw hold for the plasterboard, and may provide space for electric wiring. (This we shall see in a couple of weeks as the construction progresses.) Interior walls will be made of wood frame construction.
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