we finished framing out the roof, and we found enough plywood scraps from construction dumpsters around town to use as sheathing. we had to buy a few boards of plywood for areas where our scraps wouldn’t do, but overall we used mostly what we took out of the dumpsters, which we feel good about.
we found a restaurant that is being demolished this week, and we bought all of the interior rough cut cedar wood for a couple hundred dollars, and we got a ton of it. wood’s parents came out to help us pry it off the walls, take all the nails out, and strap it to our truck. it was a ton of work, but we think it’ll be worth it. otherwise the wood would have been going to the landfill.
we also took a trip up to vermont to visit our friends heather and lori, who were having a work party to start their home, which will be a 13 foot superadobe dome. basically the process involves agricultural feedbags that are filled with earth and sometimes a little concrete, laid out in a circle using a center compass, and then tamped down. between each layer is barbed wire, so the bags don’t slip at all. we were only able to stay for a few days, but we got it good and started. hopefully we’ll be able to go back to help them finish it up in a couple of months.
