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Abandoned house

Abandoned house

This abandoned house exhibits a variety of construction methods and materials. We found a couple of abandoned houses in this small northern New Mexico town tha...
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This abandoned house exhibits a variety of construction methods and materials. We found a couple of abandoned houses in this small northern New Mexico town that exhibited one bad construction technique - walls constructed by erecting wood logs (like a palisade), then plastering over them with adobe mud. Not only does this not adequately support the surfacing mud, but it seems guaranteed to create a termite problem. The horizontal roof beams - the ends visible here - are called vigas.
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PENTAX K-1 Mark II

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Aperture f/6.3 ISO 3200 Shutter 1/1250 Focal Length 5000/100

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El Rito, New Mexico, US

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Feb, 2020

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