What Are Casas De Adobe?

In America we have our own ways of building houses according to our financial backgrounds. In the United States we build homes out of wood, stucco, plaster, metal, plastic, and other materials. But, in Mexico there is ways people in the country side of Mexico build their homes, because of financial reasons. They build Casas de Adobe, in this article I will explain what a Casa de Adobe is and how to build one.

Basically a Casa de Adobe is a house made out of mud in a unique way that that allows the house to have the shape, and form of a real house. A lot of the ancient old homes in cities through out Mexico are still Casas de Adobe, because the pioneers of Mexico started to build their homes out of mud. Casas de Adobe are made with big mud bricks, and they are usually covered with cement stucco on the outside and inside walls. The houses usually have windows and doors, and Casas de Adobe are usually very warm in the winter. A lot of people in Mexico build Casas de Adobe, because they have no money to buy real Mexican brick, but to me it's an art the has been perfected over the years. I think it would be neat and economic to build a house out of mud in the United States, because it would be economic and it would save energy. Also building Casas de Adobe will save our natural resources like trees and other building material.

I am not a professional in the art of building Casas de Adobe, but I have watched and I know these few procedure on how to build a Casa de Adobe. The builders of these homes usually take shovels and pick at dry dirt until very brittle, then water is added to make the clay. But, I think there is another ingredient added for the hardness of the adobe bricks (mud bricks) but I'm not really sure what the ingredient are. Then a square mold is used to shape the adobe bricks, and after they are dry the adobe bricks are spread out in the open dry air with plenty of sunlight to dry and harden. After the adobe bricks are harden after a few days the building process starts, buy using a special mixture of mud with special ingredients to make the adobe bricks stick to each other. Then the walls are made, and windows and doors to perfection and well squared on all angles of the home. The walls are usually thick and they are water proof with the cement stucco. Usually cement tin is used as a roof, or metal tin is used as a roof on top.

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