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Slipform Stone Masonry DVD.

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? It's easier than you might think! Slipform Stone Masonry brings to life the nuts-and-bolts of the slipforming process featured in Tom's 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.

Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction

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Living Homes:
Stone Masonry,
Log, and
Strawbale Construction
      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 Tom's 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 2001. 1 hr. 50 min.

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Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction.
Living Homes
$30.00

Slipform Stone Masonry DVD.
Slipform Stone Masonry DVD
$25.00

Build Your Own Masonry Fireplace DVD.
Build Your Own Masonry Fireplace DVD
$25.00

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Stone House: A Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms.
Stone House
$35.00

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Living Homes and Slipform Stone Masonry DVD.
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Slipform Stone Masonry DVD

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Living Homes, Sllipform Stone Masonry DVD and Build Your Own Masonry Fireplace DVD.
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Slipform Stone Masonry DVD
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Participating in Nature
Botany in a Day
Living Homes
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Roadmap to Reality

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      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 didn't 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 room/tornado 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 I've ever seen. Keep up the good work!

      Thanks,

Hugh & Myra


Hi Jeanne & Tom,

      Package arrived safely. Thanks for the swift processing. Tom's 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



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Thomas J. Elpel's House-Building Projects:
-Building a House on Limited Means
-Building a Passive Solar Stone and Log Home
-We've Gone Solar!
-Building a Passive Solar Stone House - Part I
-Stone House: Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V
-Masonry Fireplace DVD
-Slipform Stone Masonry Class Information
-Building a Little Castle / Guest House
-Our Dry Cold Permaculture Homestead
-Building a Modernized Earthlodge

Other Projects Related to Living Homes:
-Stone Masonry: A Brief Overview
-A reader builds a Slipform Stone Mansion
-A reader builds a Stone and Log House in France
-A reader builds a Stone House at the Center of the Universe
-A reader builds a Slipform Stone House on the Prairie
-A reader builds a house of Stone and Straw
-A reader builds a Wilderness Cabin of Stone
-Tilt-up Stone Masonry
-Log Home Butt-and-Pass Method

      Looking for life-changing resources? Check out these books by Thomas J. Elpel:

Green Prosperity: Quit Your Job, Live Your Dreams.
Green
Prosperity
Roadmap to Reality: Consciousness, Worldviews, and the Blossoming of Human Spirit
Roadmap
to Reality
Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction
Living
Homes
Participating in Nature: Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills.
Participating
in Nature
Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat.
Foraging the
Mountain West
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
Botany
in a Day
Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids
Shanleya's
Quest

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