The interior bedroom wall with loose plaster
I’ve previously written about the earthship that we have in Summit County. Michael Reynolds designs these energy-efficient structures and many were built near Taos, New Mexico.
We bought plans in 1994 from Solar Survival Architecture and built our home in 1995.
Lately, the EPDM membrane roof leaked in several places. Though we spent many days repairing the roof last fall, we didn’t succeed in removing every leak. We patched every hole and crack that we could see, but didn’t realize that went the roofers first roofed it, they had not glued the EPDM that stretches across the berms behind the wing walls. This summer, we finally found the unsealed seams and crawled under the EPDM to fix the drainage.
Unfortunately, by the time we fixed these leaks (which I hope are the last), the walls had already absorbed too much water and the finish began crumbling off.
Now I’m trying to fix the walls!
Wall after removing loose plaster and earth
A lot of work for you, but for your blog visitors, interesting to see the guts of the earthship walls. Happy replastering.
Comment by Claire Walter — August 3, 2009 @ 9:37 pm