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Colorado   Adobe   Bricks

What are Adobe Bricks?

Sun-dried mud bricks, or adobe bricks, is one of the oldest and most common building materials known.  Adobé bricks consist of a mixture of river bed soil, manure and water.  This moist earth-clay mixture is set in wooden molds and set out to be sun dried.

 

Colorado River Adobé Bricks

Our adobé blend consist of Colorado Riverbed Soil-clays, steer manure as a binder and water.  And by hand, is mixed to a plastic consistency.  And to obtain the desired brick size, this moist earthen mixture is set in iron forms, tamped and leveled.  Our adobé units are then set on level ground for several days of air-sun drying.

 

Our adobé units are next stacked and fired in a wood fired kiln.  This baking results in desirable imperfections and with a panache of earthen tone colors which is typical in Southwestern architecture.

 

Styles of Colorado River Adobé Bricks

Colorado River Adobé Units are made in a variety of shapes and sizes, suitable for rustic Southwestern construction.  From El Chico Bricks to Pavers to Mission Tile ~ walls, decks, walkways, fences, landscaping, garden area, pools, patios, barbeques, fireplaces, and roofs.

Tinted cement mortar is preferred when laying Colorado River Adobé Units.  Unfired units are available, usually mud-brown in color.  Custom sizes, shapes and colors can be fabricated.

 

Historic Adobé Architecture

Rehabilitating a deteriorated adobé building is most successful when employing methods used for restoration that are as similar as possible to the original construction techniques.

Adobé structure components are mission tile roofs, walls, flooring and fencing.  These componets may have been composed of unbaked laid adobé units set with mud mortar.  Adobé mission tile (aka, clay tile or barrel tile) for roofs.  Adobé bricks for walls, fencing and walkways.