Patent ID: 7568321

Claim:
A method of constructing an adobe wall comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of adobe bricks, at least some of the bricks having an aperture therethrough extending from a top surface through to a bottom surface; assembling a plurality of layers of the adobe bricks atop one another to form a substantially vertical wall structure, so that the apertures align to form a substantially vertical channel; inserting an extended reinforcing member through the vertical channel; pouring a settable building material into the vertical channel; permitting the building material to set around the reinforcing member; inserting at least two scaffolding pipes substantially horizontally and parallel to each other through holes in the brick layers in spaced-apart relation from each other and above ground level; resting a support member atop the scaffolding pipes to form a scaffold; removing the support member and the scaffolding pipes from the wall; and filling the holes with adobe mud to ensure an integrity of the wall.