Dirtcheapbuilder Guide on CD-ROM

The original

Dirtcheapbuilder's Guide

is BACK! Much Bigger than the notebook format, and Better than ever ( now with 4,000++ pages of info) in CD format for Mac or PC.

You KNOW what it is like-- you find a great site then lose the URL, you wanted to see info on making earth bricks, using special fibers, or that house with the cob tree sculpted into the wall, the living roof design, how to use greywater... this CD has it ALL. Plus stuff you never heard of! Use this CD as a DESKTOP Natural BUILDER's LIBRARY. You can spen hours just reading and visiting the links and resources given. Now you can get organized. Make a folder on your desktop, copy this CD to your folder, and then add new sites you find and keep a complete data base of useful links right where you need them.

PHOTO: This is a sawdust-clay-lime block. It is mixed to a doughy mass, and turned into a simple form to sun dry. While still 'green' it is sliced with a drywall trowel. These cured blocks are placed between studs in my work studio, an 80+ year old redwood barn. Read about this project on the CD.

Now the CD includes more than 4,000 pages of information in PDF and text format on all topics from Adobe to Yurts.

Entire books, in Pdf format, on earth and cinva ram brick building are included, plus hundreds of "how to" articles and resources.

TOPICS (Most in article/pdf. or text*): Adobe, Agstone, Brick, Cement/Concrete, Clay, Clay stoves, Cob, Cordwood, Domes, Earth sheltered, Earth ships, Ferrocement, Foundations, Hybrid Adobe, Hypertufa, Light Straw Clay/ Sawdust Clay/Woodchip-Clay, Lime use, Log, Paper adobe/Papercrete, Plasters, Pole frame, Pozzolans/Rice Hull ash/RHA/Fly ash, Pumicecrete, Rammed Earth, Soil, Stone, Strawbale, Timber Frame, TufaStone, Wood, Yurts.

And as a bonus a complete list of hundreds of online web resources to more documents and sites.

Charm aine's Projects: I even include a folder with my own projects with Dewey the mixer, and my 'green' studio redo. [Photo above: sawdust-clay-lime brick, precast in the sun, then "buttered" and placed between studs. Lightweight, insulative blocks cost less than 10 Cents each!]

* some items/articles/info are copyright protected so referral to the website is required. [ Photo shows sun-dried, cast block of sawdust-clay-lime for wall infill on my studio; described on the CD in detail]

Please Note: Mooseprints- booklet by Robert LaPorte is not available. Please choose the dirtcheapbuilder.com CD which has articles and infomation, and dozens of color images of light straw clay-woodchip clay building by non-professionals.

If you order JUST this CD I charge a FLAT $3.50 fee ( USA delivery) for FIRST CLASS MAIL... you will not be charged $7. or $8.50 for this item to ship. The AUTOMATED Order Form on this web store fills in the FLAT SHIP FEE for books, you will not be charged that rate. International Orders get a significantly reduced fee too! -- depending on country destination.