Greenhouse: Foam panel in GH, 1 by oldmudhouse

oldmudhouse wrote:
We don't live in a traditional adobe with the wonderful thick walls, but we do have a fired adobe brick exterior on our wood-framed house. Which, in fact, is trying to return to the earth, as you mentioned, after nearly 50 years of exposure to the weather. This is distressing because we are still trying to live in it. :-)

Most traditional adobe houses have a plaster or stucco exterior on the outside of the soft adobe bricks, and that layer is the "sacrificial layer" that protects the bricks underneath. In the old adobes the outer plaster layer needs to be repaired or replaced occasionally, and that works pretty well in dry climates. But, the bricks on our house are odd ducks called Adobe quemado, or "burnt adobe." They were fired to a high temp, and were "supposed" to be able to withstand the weather without being covered up. Apparently this works for a while, but not forever. They don't use this technique anymore, and the pic of the garden wall below shows why. Soon we'll have to pay nice men lots of money to repair and stucco over the whole thing. I'd much rather work on the greenhouse. :-(

Apologies to Rentman for going off topic, but that's why I picked the funny name.
Sheri