Dvd Workshop 2

Video companion to the book Living Homes. Thomas J. Elpel. Slipform Stone Masonry DVD With Builder and Author Thomas J. Elpel. Video Companion to Living Homes Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction       Want to build a stone house Its easier than you might think Slipform Stone Masonry brings to life the nuts and bolts of the slipforming process featured in Toms book Living Homes. Slipforming is the process of using forms on both sides of the wall as a guide for the stonework. The forms are filled with stone and concrete, then slipped up the walls to form the subsequent levels. Slipforming makes stone work easy even for the novice. In this unique video, Thomas J. Elpel and Robert Taylor build an insulated workshop out of stone, demonstrating the building process from site excavation right through to putting the roof on and finishing the inside. Working through the month of June in Montana, they brave the rain and snow, gusting winds, searing heat and stunning rainbows to bring this project to fruition. The video is designed as a companion to Toms book Living Homes. The principles of design and construction are out lined in the book, enabling the reader to create dwellings customized to their own unique situations. In this video you will see just one application of those principles, but in vivid detail from start to finish. With both the book and the video you too will be able to design and build in a way that is completely unique to your own Vision. DVD. November 2. 00. Order Direct from Thomas J. Elpel and HOPS Press, LLCSee our Package Discounts below for big savings Shopping for birthdays, holidays, resale, or use in the classroom Click Here for Wholesale Orders      Wow Tom I saw your slipform video and it was awesome Stumbling onto your slipform video was not only timely but life changing. I was in a situation where I didnt know what to do and the video provided the best solution. It was the motivation for excavating under my house and building a retaining wall for an extra roomtornado shelter and also for jacking up a sagging foundation. It took three months but it worked Seeing your daughter mixing concrete and your son helping to pour it was also very inspiring. Many thanks,Hector Olague. Tom,      I received my order today. The video is the best how to video Ive ever seen. Dvd Workshop 2' title='Dvd Workshop 2' />Keep up the good work      Thanks,Hugh Myra. Hi Jeanne Tom,      Package arrived safely. Thanks for the swift processing. Discount code HOL2017 confers a 40 discount off the list price of eligible print, eBook, and Practice Test titles, or a 60 discount off the list price of eligible. D Maven Music Player Pro. Watch free live or ondemand webinars about porn help and Internet safety. You can also buy a DVD workshop kit. Toms DVD played perfectly on a UK DVD player and on my computer. Besides enjoying the DVD immensely may I compliment Tom on how well he presented and particularly how clearly he enunciates the English language. I understood every syllable. Superb value both book and DVD. Nick Geneva, Switzerland. Notes from the Building Processby Thomas J. Elpel       A new stone workshop in just one month Robert arrived here from New York City on June 4th to learn stone masonry. We went to work immediately setting forms to pour the footings and the slab. Exactly one month later on the 4th of July we put on the metal roof Along the way we somehow shot video of the entire process, and still took a couple well deserved days off. The building is 1. The original idea behind the project was simply to create a storage shed for our camping gear and bicycles. Page-2/DVD-authoring/page.files/snap20.jpg' alt='Dvd Workshop 2' title='Dvd Workshop 2' />But we couldnt just build any old shed. And since we were building with stone, I also wanted to test out some ideas which I had previously proposed, but never actually tried that is, framing the entire structure with insulation panels, then slipforming the stonework up the outside. In other words, this would be a pretty elaborate and highly insulated storage shed Soon we added cute little windows to the plans for the south wall, with more windows in the doors, plus complete wiring and lighting inside. We started thinking workshop or even studio more than shed. Ultimately we may have to build something else to hold our bicycles and camping gear. Anyway, after pouring the slab, we framed the building out of insulation panels. I planned to order 4 x 8 panels of beadboard insulation with one sheet of oriented strand board OSB glued on the inside, marketed as the R Control Panels. For a directory of suppliers, please click here. But first, I asked about secondhand, damaged, or scrap panels at the local factory. They brought me out back to a growing heap of scrap panels beside the building and let me take all I could for free Otherwise, the scraps were to be hauled off to the dump, and the company was so busy that they didnt have time to make new panels to sell me anyway. Now, I would have preferred panels with the OSB board on just one side instead of both, but for the price, how could I complain      Putting the walls together was like assembling a puzzle, working from all different sized pieces, squares, triangles and rectangles. It took a little head scratching, but two days later we had the walls up and the windows and doors framed in. Choosing the roof pitch was easy, we just used a set of matching triangular panels. The next step was slipforming up the outside with stonework. Since a large part of the walls were underground anyway, we cheated and poured concrete walls wherever it wouldnt show, then added stonework on top of that. Bringing in a truck and pouring the concrete cost a bit more, but really sped up the process. Unfortunately, in this fast paced project, I failed to properly secure the forms, so the concrete blew out the side and made quite a mess. After that embarrassment, we turned to the slower and more relaxing process of setting stones and mixing our own mortar. The slipforms serve as guides for the stonework, so you can just set the rocks in against the wood face and then pour concrete and rebar in behind it. It makes the difficult art of stone masonry so easy that anyone can do it. The weather flip flopped from freezing cold to boiling hot to gusty winds, to rain and rainbows. It snowed the day before Robert arrived, then snowed again on the 1. We took that day off from work. Before we finished building the stone walls, we stopped and built roof trusses, then cut notches in the insulation panels and set the trusses in place. We resumed our slipform work and went right up between the trusses, permanently anchoring them into the concrete and stonework. Working near the top of the walls was easy, since the building is set back into the hill, none of the walls were too high off the ground. And the stones were free from the local mountains. We just had to drive up the road to get them. However, the trimless style I used around the windows and doors required more specialized squarish stones than the rocks we used for regular slipform work. Bts Click And Drag Game. We made a lot of extra trips up into the mountains, looking for just the right rocks. Although the workshop absorbed most of our time, I still had to run the business and process book orders each day. Somewhere along the way, I took time off and drove the 3 12 hours to Missoula for a business errand and a 6 a. Montana Today about my book, Living Homes. That was a fast trip there and back. Now, if I had purchased beadboard panels in 4 x 8 sheets for the roof, then I would have used a few log purlins for support and otherwise spanned the opening without the need for trusses. However, since we were using odd shaped scrap panels, we had to build the trusses to hold them up. That added to the cost of the free insulation panels. We also screwed down a layer of 71.