Basic Procedure
THE BASIC PROCEDURE is simple. The bags or tubes are filled with a suitable pre-moistened earth and laid in a mason style running bond. By filling the bags in place on the wall we eliminate ever having to lift them. After a whole row has been laid it is compacted with hand tampers. We then lay 2 strands of 4-point barbed wire in-between every course, which acts as a Velcro mortar cinching the bags in place.
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This wire provides tensile strength while providing the option for the rows to be stepped in to create self-supporting corbelled domes and other unusual shapes. Walls can be free-form style curves or a perfect circle guided by the use of a revolving compass.
Arched windows and doorways are built around removable wooden box and arch forms until the keystone bags are tamped into place.
The results?
A simple, sound, beautiful dirtbag wall.
