Tires, Bottles, and Cans

[rangerclass7s]

awesome

[electricfemale]

Wonderful, thank you for sharing.

[OldSchoolSkill]

Beautiful, creative, unique, inspiring.

[didididit2]

@OldSchoolSkill Thank you for the kind words. We love living in our earthship and sharing anything we've learned on the way with anyone who is interested.

[CuriousKimification]

how did you stack the materials? Did you just use dirt and water?

[didididit2]

@CuriousKimification The first row of tires is put on the ground then 300 to 350 lbs. of dirt is sledge hammered in until they puff up like an inflated tire. The next row of empty tires is places on top of them with a half tire offset. The rows subsequent to the first get a chunk of cardboard in the bottom to keep the dirt from falling through and then the filling & sledge hammering again. Find the Earthship Books by Michael Reynolds for more info. Great house to live in. Love it!

[CuriousKimification]

@didididit2

Thank you!



[TheRichardjr719]

cani come to your house and take all your tabs?

[TheCaptainLulz]

How much did they pay you, per tyre, to take them?

[paulesposito77]

the inspector in my town would shit his pants if I put anything like this on the plans! I had it out with him just trying to use steel for my interior steps, rather then wood.

[722erodz]

very creative : )

[waellerbe]

I still like this concept of building with recycled materials. A home that is designed well, and costs less to heat and cool is truly a blessing.

[didididit2]

@waellerbe We've been in it for 7 1/2 years now and still love it. Our utilities for all of 2010 consisted of $180.00 for propane. Today it was in the single digits outdoors and in the mid 70s indoors with just the sun and thermal mass. It is all working so well.

[waellerbe]

@didididit2 - Wonderful. It's a blessing to see that your cost for utilities would be SO LOW. This is something that I dream for - the chance to live a custom built home with Thermal Mass. True blessing indeed.

[waellerbe]

@didididit2 - Just for the fun of it, I'm gonna watch your video, and will also promote your testimony to my folks on Google Buzz. It's refreshing to hear about another success story.

[boysselle]

Very nice video! Where is your house located? Do you offer tours? Thank you

[didididit2]

@boysselle We are in Western Colorado and we do give tours. If you are going to be in the Grand Junction area please send an email in advance.

[jantjesjantje]

If you buy a house like this one in the Netherlands.

On a small piece of ground.

You pay one million euros. (At least)

1 million Euro, is 1.21 million U.S. Dollar

And then you will pay every year about 11.000 Euro = 14.360 US Dollar. tax

[didididit2]

@jantjesjantje Wow! I'm blessed to live in a less expensive area of the world. There is just a lot more land available here but we don't have a lot of the amenities you have in the Netherlands so we end up paying more for medical and transportation costs (I loved the train system when I visited the Netherlands).

[Achbar]

How expensive was this House?

[didididit2]

@Achbar It is a big house, 2000 sq. ft. and we hired out the tire pounding and exterior framing. All told, including the solar electrical system, the land, interior finish, and appliances, we spent about $175,000.

[Achbar]

That is not bad, Not bad at all consider the savings in energy. Sweet!

[didididit2]

We are very happy with it. Total energy costs for the year consist of less than 200 gallons of propane for the hot water heater and the range. Many of the people we know spend more on energy in a month than we do in a year.

[Achbar]

this is Great, Hell my House here cost me $95,000. That is not a bad price. 2000 sf! Nice!

[ArdomeTV]

Very Cool! We are using recycled materials too!

Majors Dome in Garfield, AR usa

[doctordude]

nice! what state are you in?

[didididit2]

Colorado

[lazyorc]

Hi, got lots of questions. I want to make a fence that is about 300 feet long with tires.

Would I need to pour a footing or can I just use the tires as a footing? For the final veneer would I use stucco or cement? It seems to me that the cement would just fall off the rubber. How do you keep this from happening? Do you know any good forums or people I can talk to with experience building walls with tires/ recycled materials? Thanks.

[didididit2]

The tires, filled with compressed earth (sledge hammer it in) work as a monolithic foundation so you shouldn't have to pour a footing. Just make sure you are on level compacted dirt. Check out our website for links to other othership builders and go to Earthship Biotecture's site.

[democ]

very cool!

[CastingStonez]

awesome...

[crinoid1918]

sweet

[Bushdoctor68]

It should not be long before earthship builders can start asking money for the tires that they're using. In many European countries theres a waste-tax on old tires. People will be happy to pay you a euro per tire instead of 4 euros at an official dump. ;)

[joegoatman]

great!

[leloodallasmultipass]

lovely. I want to build earthship and someday I will.

[MisaPresents]

wow ..It look nice...

[didididit2]

Thanks. It is a lot of fun and just gets better and better.

[fourtimezthru]

♥it☺

[didididit2]

Thanx!

[brob1969]

Good job! We're building one in Florida (as soon as the county gives the go-ahead).

[Tarsan97]

This is very !!! cool. Smart. And the finish result looks stunning good. Wish I coud see it for real some time

[youarelackluster]

how about tagging this with earthship too? :)