EARTH HOUSES
Sir-I should like to support your correspondent R. Ammer on the durability of pisé house construction. I lived for over 10 years at Harden, in the Riverena district, New South Wales where many of the largest and ffhest houses in the town and surrounding districts were of pisé construction. Further. dotted here and there remnants of Pioneering habitation are to be seen, all timber and roofing iron, long since disappeared, but the walls still remain. As I was only a koy, methods of construction did not interest me to any extent, excepting perhaps, that the usual method of concrete wall construction with forming boards bolted together was used, and the earth tamped down pretty thoroughly, a watering can being used in the process. A couple of men could erect the walls of a five-roomed house in under a fortnight. The exterior walls were washed over and often tuckpointed to assume the appearance of brick or sandstone.
PRESTON
BOORMAN
(Onehunga).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 14
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161EARTH HOUSES New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 14
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