Whether you prefer Adobe, Wood, Pumice Crete, or Rammed Earth Construction, we place a healthy focus on green building technologies along with passive and active solar when possible. We enjoy tearing into and renovating an old Adobe Home as much as we do building New Construction. The focus is always on environmental awareness with all designs ...

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A sunset view of the pumice-crete home completed south of Albuquerque. This pumice-block home uses a unique block design made 40 miles from the home site manufactured by hand. The bricks are made with a combined pumice and cement mixture, which is then formed into interlocking blocks with three channels. The beauty of this material is the light ...

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Pumice Crete This New Mexico born monolithic wall system consists of a poured 14" thick wall of small pumice stone embedded in slurry of concrete and finished by plastering inside and out. Because of the simplicity of the wall system, and because it contains no organic material Paula has found this wall system to be especially well tolerated by ...

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Pumice-Crete® is a low density, lightweight, low-rise structural concrete using 3/8 pumice aggregate, Portland cement, and water. The honeycomb-like walls are formed and poured at a typical thickness of 18-24 inches, with no additional structural reinforcement [ 03 ] or insulation needed.

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Pumice-Crete® Building Systems of NM offers a wide variety of creative, sustainable building related services. Our intention is to offer reliable alternative building methods and services that can reduce our dependence on forest products, nonrenewalble, energy intensive resources. As the leading developer and installer of Pumice-Crete® wall systems PBSNM excells in the installation ...

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62 Plans that employ Pumicecrete. Here you will find a listing of all of the plans that either …

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Pumice-Crete is made of three ingredients: pumice as aggregate and just enough portland cement and water to hold the pieces of pumice together. The insulating value of Pumice-Crete comes from both the tiny bubbles within the sponge-like pumice itself and the larger air spaces between the pumice pieces, once the whole wall is sealed by a plaster ...

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All of the photos shown in this section on pumicecrete are courtesy of Scott MacHardy of Pumice-crete Building Systems of New Mexico. His website, pumicecrete, has many more pictures and details about this useful material. Scott offers contracting services, training, consulting, etc.

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A concrete mixing ratio of 1:4 will yield about 7.5 m³ pumice concrete for 1000 kg cement (20 bags weighing 50 kg each). The same walls with a thickness of 25 cm require 12.5 m³ pumice concrete. For a mixing ratio of 1:4, about 1750 kg cement (35 bags weighting 50 kg each) are needed for 12.5 m³ pumice concrete. ….

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Pumice-Crete Building Systems of New Mexico is a family owned and operated business, usually serving as a sub to a general contractor. Sons Evan (licensed in residential construction and head of his own company) and Wes are often called upon to assist MacHardy in the finishing details. There is an increasingly conscious thought going into the ...

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Pumicecrete Projects Completed: Asterisks indicate projects successfully completed for individuals with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity). Jordan Residence, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1994.

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When considered in those terms, pumice-crete is both economical and dead simple—the enduring strength, architectural style, and energy-efficient performance are INHERENT in the wall structure itself. What is the cured strength of Pumice-Crete®? The carefully-graded pumice aggregate and cement mixture cures to approximately 400 PSI.

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Plans that employ Pumicecrete. Here you will find a listing of all of the plans that either employ, or could employ, pumicecrete. They are listed in alphabetical order according to their title.

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Pumice-crete is a mix of pumice aggregate (a very porous volcanic rock), portland cement, and water. The mix is mostly pumice with only enough cement to bind it together. This is considered a "lean mix" which maximizes the thermal insulating qualities of the walls. The mix is poured into forms creating 14" thick exterior walls and 8 ...

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