Paul Mallory Owner-Builder Support Project - Santa Fe, NM
We took the tarps off the exterior foundation in March of 2020. What a year we were in for. My partner Shannon and I both kept our full time jobs during the pandemic, so our goal was to get the interior foundation laid, the walls up, and the roof on before winter came.
We decided to build our interior walls of adobe for extra thermal mass and because we like the feel of interior adobe walls. For that, we had to pour an interior foundation and locked it into the exterior foundation with rebar we placed in the exterior CMU stem wall.
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