I Did Not Expect the Lavacrete Wall to Look Like THIS

We took a day off yesterday. We needed a break after the workshop but I want to show you where we're at and what's going on because we did not finish the wall during the Accent Wall workshop. We had some miscalculations but we did go ahead and get the rest of the form work set up. So you can see this form goes all the way up. We've got the rounded corner in. We have all the conduit. Same thing over there and then you can also see how we did the the tinted stuff right at the front and then the non-tinted at the back. That's how we're saving on tint because we also miscalculated that we don't want to go have to buy anymore. Hopefully we got to finish it this week because Ashley's leaving soon so we're gonna be working on this the rest of the week trying to get this wall finished and then when she gets back we're gonna take the forms off. Okay we got the frame work up it was a pain in the butt. But it's up and Jonathan's starting to make the first mix of black. We're going to make a shelf here on the front facing of everything and then we'll switch to the untinted if we have time. We'll see how far this goes with only me and Jonathan and Ada and Jax. Not very many people And this right here looks like we planned it. But that was a happy accident. Oh my goodness guys, it is so fiddly up there between all of the conduits and the fact that we're just having to reach a little further down into it and the bar joist that's right in the way and the height of the scaffolding. We can't really go down anymore with the double, the single's not tall enough. We're moving real slow, real slow. But what we have done is we've done all... The black we're going to do for now, we've got ourselves a nice little sort of shelf around the outside. So now we're going to make some big batches of the untinted and we're going to go back to the 61 for that because we don't really need, we don't need to add more cement. There's no reason to. So we're going to use more sand, less cement. Somebody's in my way though. Cloud. Wow. This crystal was given to me by my friends Mike and Catherine up in Whitesage and so I'm finding the center of this wall and it's going to be placed inside the wall just as a special memory. So thank you to Mike and Catherine. For the day, guys, it is so hard to film up here while we're trying to work. There's so many things to work around so I'm just going to flip you around and show you what we got finished. We are really nearing the top of the bond beam. Before we get... Too much higher. We're gonna put a nut, a washer, and another nut on these all thread and that will just help this material have something else to lock against. We have rebar, conduit, rebar, so much conduit, more rebar, more conduit, and more rebar. But we've gotten so far Like, we're really close to getting up to that bond beam. So I think the plan is for Thursday to have a few people over. We're not. The kids will be at work and doing school stuff. So if we can have a few people here, I think we might be able to make it to the top if we work really hard on Thursday. Fingers crossed we can get some people out here and hopefully wrap this project up. Because I leave on Saturday, so there's not a lot of time left. Good progress today and hopefully more progress later in the week. A song I can remember. On a rainy day in September Your son. Streaming in my life. Thanks forever. I can hear you through the thunder. Not my bed. Today's video sponsor is Quince and they have done it again. I've been eyeing these dishes for the last few months and I'm finally starting my collection for the house. So you're getting a sneak peek at my color scheme. These dishes are by East Fork Company and now they are available through Quince. And that makes me so excited because the quality is top notch. You've all heard me express my love for all things Quince. 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You can scan this QR code or visit the link in the description below. And don't forget they have free shipping and 365 day returns. So really there's no reason to wait. It's been a crazy morning here. We have some friends coming over to try to help us finish this lava creek wall. We still have about four feet worth of material left. And because it's going back over the shelf, the concrete bond beam shelf, to the adobe, it's even more material than it has been so far. So anyway, Tiffany and Andrew and Tom are here, and we've cleaned up the top. We've cleaned up the shelf so that the LavaCrete will stick to the concrete bond beam better. And we're cleaning up a few things. We're adding some nuts and washers to those all threads that are sticking out from the bond beam pour just to have something else for that wall to lock into. And we're just going to be making LavaCrete. all day long. Good to have short friends. I don't hear it. Nice. So the form work is up and in place so it's just a matter of getting enough LavaCrete over there tamped. It is about 3 30 so we don't have a whole lot of time to get this done but hopefully we can move fast enough. Adelaide's here, Jett's here, Ada will be here in just a minute. Jax is watching the dogs so Yeah we're just gonna keep going and see what we can get done. We did the best we could but it is too dark. We're so close to being finished but just a little bit more to do and uh yeah maybe tomorrow. Well this lava crete accent wall build has definitely not gone according to plan. We miscalculated the sizing and the volume and the tint. Sorry, it's windy, but so many different things. We only got halfway done during our workshop, which has never happened to us before. And we're still working on it, even though we've had a couple of work days after. We are getting close, though. I think we have one more day in us. And I hope it can be today because Ashley is leaving for her Lime Over Adobe exterior plaster workshop tomorrow. And we really want to get this done so we can move all the lava crete and get back to adobe's over in the work area Yeah, I mean we've got Yeah, it's a decent amount, but I think we can probably get it done this afternoon I would really like to get it done this afternoon. It would make me very happy. It's like it's past what you want it to be No, it's fine I can still leave a lot of room up here We back to black. Okay ada and I just finished Laying all of the lava crete up here So this wall is basically done, other than taking the forms off in about a week. And sealing it, oiling it. Well that's not going to happen until we oil the floor and that's not going to happen. Who knows, it may not even need it. It may not. It may be so black that we don't need it, but we don't know. Anyway, guys, we're exhausted. This took way longer than we thought, way more material than we thought, but it's going to be worth it. It's going to be really cool and we had just enough pigment. Well, it's currently almost 7 p.m. on Saturday, and I'm supposed to leave at 3.30. So the flight has been canceled, delayed, until 9 p.m. tonight, which means I won't be getting to Dallas until 1 a.m. Sunday, and then from Dallas to San Antonio. Won't be leaving until after 7 and getting into San Antonio around 8.30 a.m. tomorrow. And guess what time the workshop starts? 9 o'clock. So, that's not counting the 45-minute drive in the morning, picking up a rental car, and all the things that come with that. So, this has been super fun. It's been a while since I've done one. So, yeah. Cheers. I'm gonna come over here, 40% overlap, straight up, straight down. Now I'm pretty much out of mud. I'm gonna get up, come over here, and get some water. Okay, you notice I'm not playing with it. It's that simple. You're gonna scratch it diagonally in both directions, from the bottom to the top. You can see it starts to make cups. Good morning. Headed to day two of the Texas Cup Lime Over Adobe Workshop. Yesterday, I missed all the important stuff because of my stupid flight being delayed so long. I missed all about the mixes. I missed a bunch of stuff that was really important. And that really sucks because that was the whole reason I was coming, is to, like, know the mix and know why it's certain ratios. ask all my questions. So I'm really bummed that I missed all that. Hopefully I can grab somebody's notes but it's still not the same like I would have had so many questions. But anyway we're on to day two and looking forward to it. There's a lot of cool people there and I don't know what we're planning on doing today other than plastering but I don't know. Might be something cool. Okay, so as soon as you Darby, the Darby's going to do something called storyboarding, which is where all the rough spots are pretty much what you want, but then all these smooth spots are low. Some days they seem to drag, and all they do is pull you down. There's something up. Why don't we fall and lose it all before we lose ourselves? Into the water, into the blue, into the great unknown. Into the ocean, every emotion soon may we all dissolve. I know the shore and I know the waves are never that long apart. There's a chance that we're gonna make it. We'll have to throw our heart into the water. Alright guys, it is time to remove some forms. Oh my goodness, I'm so excited. I'm excited. It's always like unwrapping a surprise. We don't really know how it's going to turn out. Don't know what it's going to look like. Don't know how well the niches worked. We don't know how well the tint worked. We don't know how well the layers worked. Because you had a really specific idea for layers. yeah so time the scaffolding is already set up so we'll just start at the top and work our way down the sides are going to be a little tricky because they have to come off at the same time and the metal is attached to the metal is going to be a problem we're going to be really careful wear gloves let's get gloves yeah are you going to help us well we got what to do sorry dude that's what the top looks like I was freaking out because I was like oh no it's too light but then I remembered. That's not the tinted part. Yeah. The tinted is right up against the edge. Okay I'm gonna try to get stuff on my side. Yeah this whole situation is gonna be fascinating to see when we take it off. I don't want you to be upset if it looks a little... It's gonna be wonky here. Yeah. For sure. You gotta move the scaffolding. It's the first piece. Okay. I like the, I like the layer. You can see it. See all the different layers. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. See at the bottom. Lean like this out? Probably. Okay. You see all the salt dust? Yeah. That's from cutting the form. That is so cool! Ready? This has two screws that are sticking out the back. Can you go really cool with this? I do like, like when you're looking at it from different angles, you can definitely see the red rock and I like it. it is really clean and nice and tight like they did a really good job making sure that's really cool from back here making sure that front is really tight it looks so good Look at our workshop people. They did so good. Good! Hey guys, just a quick reminder. Our last workshop of the year is coming up very soon and it's almost full. Yes, it's November 13th, 14th, and 15th where we will be laying hyper adobe bags and cladding it with lava crete. So here's a good example. It's basically going to be this project and if you look behind it. There's hyperdovey behind it, so six layers of hyperdovey, but it's going to be way bigger than this wall. Yes, this is going to be a retaining wall to hold the soil that the Lava Crete building is up on. So when we design this wall, you see those two pipes? There's going to be a walkway that goes through, and then there's going to be... The same wall that goes all the way around the Lava Crete building. So it's a pretty big-sized project. We're going to need lots of hands here, lots of hyper-adobe to lay, lots of Lava Crete, lots of form work to do for Lava Crete, which would be good. Peter Dawson will be here. Paul Schwamm will be here. So if you have any questions about Lava Crete, they would be great to answer all your questions. Absolutely. You can come on site. Breakfast and lunch are provided. It's going to be a great long weekend. And who knows, maybe if we get done early, we can make some adobes. Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. Anyway, spots are almost gone. You should sign up. TinyShinyHome.com slash events. What was it? What was the website? TinyShinyHome.com slash events. Okay. I was very confused. Are you going to help with the lava creek wall? The hyperdoby lava creek wall? He's like, nope. I'm just going to sit on the shoulder. It smells like a goat barn. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Pull my side out a little. Yeah, that looks massive doesn't it? This would be such a cool fireplace. I know. I know. Next workshop. Imagine with the orange fire and the black wall. It would be a very cool fire. Thank you so much. The bottom one comes out different. Into the curve. Can't really see the curve yet. Nope. Does it look enormous if I'm standing here? Like two and a half, two and a half feet. All right well Sides. Sides. We can take off the top parts first. So let's do that. Remember how this was. We're going to need to get the scaffolding back. Where's that crowbar? So when we take it out it's probably going to have to go this way. So if I can get this two by four undone, I can take the top part of this off. There's a strap right behind it. This is stapled into the Are you holding something? Oh, I don't got it. It's heavier than it looks. Thank you. I forgot about the tape. Look at it. Look at it. That is really sweet. I believe it. I'm really glad we went to the trouble again. Are you okay with the metal? Our friends Andrew and Tiffany put these together for us so it'll be interesting to see if we can take it apart. I mean it's all look at it's all numbered. Well made. They they planned out exactly how to take it apart. Yeah they were telling me and I was like I'm not following what you're saying. That's why they numbered it. I know. These are made out of foam it means we can just cut them out and pull them out. We wanted these to be really sharp because they're always going to be visible. So If you build them out of wood, the problem is is they absorb water and then they swell and then they get hard to get out. So this is why Andrew and Tiffany spent so much time sort of designing these to come apart. So we'll see how it goes. I should have had them come back. I know I thought about it. Oh no. Well, that's pretty cool. Should we tape off those things up there? Yeah. Bye. Have so much fun. Have so much fun. It'll be fine. We'll be good. Okay, everything's fine. Hello there. Jonathan and some of the kids have left to go to Tennessee. And I'm left with the whole mess of the living room. But most importantly, trying to get these. I just, after three hours, got that wood form out. And I have one more to do. That's foam, so it shouldn't take as long. But I don't have a crazy sharp knife, so it's going to take a while. Anyway. Lots to do while Jonathan's gone for the next five days. What am I going to do? Thank you. On the list of things to do is first clean up this living room and get rid of stuff that's in here that we don't need. Organize all the boards that we're going to be using for formwork later on and just clean up the tools. Then once all that living room is cleaned up, I can take apart the scaffolding, take it to the bedroom side and we're going to start laying adobe blocks because I need to see progress. We're going to do it. Ada's with me. My friend Brittany's coming for a couple days. She'll be here all day tomorrow with me hoping to get some blocks up on the wall and then yeah. Just do my best to get organized and get this place cleaned up so it doesn't look so bad and fix a few things on this wall, like that hole. I'm not sure what happened. It looked like it just didn't get a section tamped there because it just all crumbled out, but it's fixable. So lots to do. Gotta stop talking and just get things done, right? Okay. Cause I can't shake the way you sway in the evening light, yeah How was that? It was wonderful. How are you? Oh my god. Look at that. I just took the form out. Holy crap. Isn't that fun? Oh my god. Can you see the middle one? Okay. Like this is the middle one. So that one's the yellow one. Yeah. Okay. Flirts and words in their bolo type. Fear I lose my mouth to keep me up. from this day forward Take my heart, it's yours to own