What are adobe bricks?
Adobe bricks are soil and water which are thoroughly mixed together into a plastic condition, shaped in a mold (or by hand), and dried by the sun. The resulting bricks can be almost any shape or size, and are laid up with a mortar made of the same material, soil and water. In the summer it takes a minimum of a week of hot dry weather for the bricks to cure adequately for handling and use. Other seasons or wet weather may take longer. Are special soils required to make adobe bricks? Almost any soil will make usable adobe bricks. Nearly all naturally occurring soils have rocks, sand, silt, and clay, in varying proportions. If the rocks are too large, approaching the thickness of the brick, they should be removed. Some soil has no rocks at all, and may be mostly sand, which can be coarse or fine. Silt is a flour fine powder of ground rock. The clay is the “glue” or binding agent that holds the mix together and makes the bricks more resistant to wetting. The clay can be one of several type
