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Earthen Touch Natural Builders, LLC

New Mexico Contractors

License #365511

 

 

Norbert Hufnagl, Carolyn Riege

El Rito, Northern New Mexico

505 . 929 . 7350

Earthen Touch organic photo courtesy:

 Mark Battrell Photography, Chicago IL

www.battrellphotography.com

2013 all rights reserved

 

At Earthen Touch Natural Builders, we are life and building partner-contractors who specialize in natural building methods using sustainable materials. We have been working in the building trade for more than ten years, each.

 

From adobe, straw-bale, pumice-block, cob, light-straw clay to traditional construction, we bring to your project the elements which work best for you.

 

Using earthen and lime plasters, and other natural materials for finishing, we help make a home warm, healthy and beautiful. Our workmanship is high end - with attention to detail our most noted specialty.

 

Having worked in traditional construction and being ourselves committed to natural building, we bring our lifestyle preference into our chosen profession to work with owner-builders to incorporate sustainable practices, or natural building into any project.

 

Whether you would like to make your home more sustainable, healthier, or simply need advice on the natural building process, we can  help you along the way.

 

As each person has his or her interpretation of green or sustainable practices, we will assist you in defining and creating your green home, by any degree.

 

For the owner-builder who needs assistance, to projects where we create for you from beginning to end, we will guide you to a finished product with both economy and quality top of mind. We have worked across the board in terms of project type and size and can help create your vision or consult on any project you have in mind.

 

Should you require design assistance in the beginning of any project, we work with committed natural building architects as part of our team.

 

Our work is not limited to New Mexico as we are mobile and able to travel to an area for extended periods for 24 hour onsite attention to any project.

 

 

 

 

A list of our services include:

Adobe Construction

Cob Construction

Light-Straw Clay Construction

Pumice - Block Construction

Straw Bale Construction

 

Custom Adobe Beautification

& Restoration

Design Consulting for Interior

& Exterior Detailing

Earthen Plastering-Interior & Exterior

Foundations, Framing, Flooring

& Roofing

Installation of Wood, Tile & Earthen

Floors - also called Poured Adobe Floors

Interior Decorative Earthen Plastering

Interior & Exterior Tile Design/Installation

Lime Plastering-Interior & Exterior

Owner-Builder Architectural Design Assistance

Rough & Finish Carpentry Work

 

Design in partnership with other

subcontractors on :

Electrical & Plumbing Systems

Home Heating & Cooling Systems

Radiant Floor Heating Systems

Solar Electrical & Hot Water Systems

 

Our belief is such that we utilize minimal resources in our work, and embrace methods which make a home more efficient, earth-friendly and healthy for both the planet and inhabitants.

 

We have worked and studied in the natural building world for years, applying and living those methods of sustainability which we  believe in and support through our daily lives.

  

2013 Earthen Touch Natural Builders   I    505 . 929 . 7350   I   earthentouchbuilders@yahoo.com