Reddobe

Posted on | January 23, 2007 | 4 Comments

This is an example from a house in Panauti, the inner wall is adobe and the outer wall is kiln burnt bricks. Interesting thing about this areas is the use of red mud mortar. Red mud (Rato Mato), in the other parts of the country, is used as plaster but here it is used as mortar. The million dollar question is why is red mud not used to make bricks? 

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Category: Adobe, News, Walls

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4 Responses to “Reddobe”

  1. Sulav
    January 24th, 2007 @ 4:42 am

    I just found an article about Redmud brick obtained from residual mineral, may be its interesting for you:

    http://archive.idrc.ca/books/reports/V212/redmud.html

    i am not sure if the natural Redmud (if it has a high pH level ‘acidic’, like the residual one ) can be used as a brick if mixed with Sodium Silica.

  2. Sulav
    January 24th, 2007 @ 5:00 am

    why does the wall look so thick, normally it is 4 inches thick isn’t it?

  3. admin
    January 24th, 2007 @ 11:33 am

    Sulav adobe walls generally tend to be thicker then cement. There are two reasons behind this logic, the first, adobe walls were mostly structural or “load bearing” and not built on the “pillar system”, so more the weight they had to handle thicker they got. There is an example of seven story adobe house in Nuwakot, which has a wall as thick as six feet…yes..almost two meters!!

    Secondly, the thicker adobe walls are, more heat-retaining capacity they have. So for the thermal comfort they could have been thicker.

  4. Cven
    January 25th, 2007 @ 9:32 am

    There is an example of seven story adobe house in Nuwakot

    You forgot Nau Talle Darbar (Nine stories) in Basantapur.

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