This house was built without a bond beam and the foundation is river rock, yet it has stood over 200 years. Our north wall of the house was leaning about 4 to 6 inches away from the house. We built a buttress out of 500 adobe blocks, but also reinforced it with a steel cable "bond beam". We used old tractor graders and cut them in half and sandwhiched the wall between them. The corner piece was welded and made. Hope that'll hold it! No more wall falling over dreams, like the south facing wall did.
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