I'm really into green building and have ALWAYS wanted to make by myself an earth oven...And since I have a garden in my new place,I finally decided to make one-YEY
So I began with a soil testing and found out that I have the perfect dirt in my own garden and since it's a new neighborhood and people still working on building their homes,I found a bag with lots of construction send ...all left to find was straw-which was a really easy job here in the kibuz where I have cowshed just 5 minute walk from my crib ...so I had gather my supplies and got crack'n
Here is how all went-
ME mixing the cob with my bare feet (long time no play with mud :D )
getting my feet all dirty
this is how my soil+sand+straw looks like after hour of mixing
building the insulating base for my oven+reusing some beer bottles ;)
filing in with sand
fire brick goes on top
FUN #2 begins-building a sand castle
It was a long time since I played with sand-I actually HATE getting my hands dirty :p
Even years back in art school the sculpting class was my least favorite class ,and here I am 14 years later,am building a sand castle
my sand castle has an Italian roots (not that straight I would say )
damp newspapers on top so I can find later where the cob ends and sand begins
covered the whole thing with first layer of clay /sand mix
and now the wait begins :(
I need to wait till my mix is a bit dry so I can curve to door out...
I will update you on how it goes as I'll do it and the second layer hopefully tomorrow if the weather will allow me
STAY TUNED!
