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Thursday, August 6, 2009

New kind of house.

I think I may have mentioned that Doc Blessman is considering a change of building materials from the Abod's to actual blocks. The machine is made by an Iowa company, Vermeer, and it compresses dirt and a little concrete mix and water to form these blocks. Here is an article explaining the machine far better than I could. I received an email from Doc the other day, and he is leaning this way. He has been working with Entebini, the park we saw the lions at, to use their machines, they have 2, to build the blocks and build the next homes. He is also working on getting a pre-school built in Polokwane, which is where I think we went shopping, but I'm not 100% sure on my African town names. I'm anxious to see what comes of all of this. The bricks have to cure, according to the article, for a minimum of 7 days, but it appears 28 days is optimal. That would mean 2 teams would have to work on this, a month apart, or labor would have to be hired to either form the bricks or build. We'll see where God leads.

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