*NEXT* Rammed Earth House Part 1

A video by NEXT Design for your Modern Home. RDC Fine Homes shows us how a rammed earth sustainable house is built. www.nextmodernhome.com

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Howto & Style

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• modern
• design
• sustainable
• home
• eco
• friendly
• rammed
• earth
• house
• Whistler
• B.C.
• Canada
• architecture

[willem01]

@parkert51 I bet about ten times more. What they dont mention in vids like this is that the construction-process is a lot more labor intensive. When it comes to building houses, labor is always the biggest expense.

They do excuse this because the house will use less energy to for heating.

[parkert51]

Whats the cost compared to traditional building?

[SacredFireLodge]

My 1 question is this, how do you find a loan institution that will finance a home like this or a Qaunset hut? Would love to find out as we are putting up a Q hut to live in... Thanks to anyone with info about this...

[moles2000]

And of course there is the no formaldehyde, benzine, styrene, heavy metals, pesticedes, etc you will be exposed to!

[moles2000]

This is a beautiful home. Unless you have been in a finished home like this you have no idea how wonderful it feels. And the benefit of this type building will last many lifetime. In many parts of the world you would never need any heating nor cooling. Is not that green enough for you doubters? Cost per sq f means nothing in the lifetime of benefits.

[kenfortmac34]

So thats pretty neat stuff but what is the cost per square foot for that type of construction? I know that depends on many many things but percentage wise versus conventional construction. Nice looking stuff though.

[vaidotas86]

@aaron4820 "we using a mixture of gravel and water and cement" they sad... so same stuff as for cement, I can see that they are creating much more thicker walls (more than 3k) in comparison of normal cement wall (10 - 20cm of cement is enough for one floor house. So in result they are using same amount of cement, 3x times more gravel, 3x times more sand and using a lot of energy while packing that stuff. So it is at least 3x times scam. Its is terrible technology and not eco friendly at all!

[aaron4820]

@vaidotas86 They are using 10% cement as oppose to 30% cement, so unless the walls are 3x thicker, which it isn't, it wouldn't use the same amount of cement. On top of that, they are using earth found on site, which saves on what would have been the other materials and its transportation costs, this would be more energy efficient as well as cost effective compared to conventional concrete, what do you mean by scam? planet earth trying to scam you to use their material for free?

[vaidotas86]

they make thicker walls so probably they use same amount of cement :( that is fail. SCAM!

[sixnone1947]

Why don't you call it rammed concrete? This is a disgrace to true rammed "earth". Neat concept but I'm upset. You want a tough wall? try mixing fly ash in. It will take a hammer blow plus give some insulating quality you wont get with cement.