Earth Building: for Free

Spanish mountain-side, John shows you how to build an earth wall - at high speed!
Good hill-billy music.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Ecological;Sustainable
• DIY;
• Rammed
• Earth;
• hill-billy
• music;
• Build
• for
• free;
• Environmental
• buildings;
• Funny

[PakaNoHida]

This is rammed construction using "cob" and there are homes all over Europe that are older then any stick construction we have in the USA. They don't wash away, they are actually better construction then our current square wooden homes all over the place. You laugh, but this is very old technology.

[DragonovSVD]

i could hang out with this guy.

[makeiteasyable]

wahahah ye its fun alrightn

[CTKLG]

My Dad Told me to go POUND SAND alot when I was younger....I never knew it might actually come in-to a good use....

[AcidLifeform]

this is pretty useful for my architectural project

[MisterBahston]

@DragonovSVD

As could i. Knowledge is power. This is the kind of person that hanging out with is an valuable beyond estimation use of ones time.

[rollinshultz]

@Mikdeelo I understand your postulation, but it assumes moisture only travels one way. By monitoring humidity levels, one can through the creation of airflow or 10 minutes of burn time in a simple fireplace, remove moisture from the air and reverse the process and direction of moisture through the wall. In winter when the windows are closed air heated at the wall surface will cause the same reversal.

[bryncomeaux]

@kazuhithomerun can use waterprofers but some people want the wall to breath. some builders add liquid asphalt to cob . diferent stuff is done to prevent spalling.

[redhotbits]

@ChuckPrichard its not only money, the earth walls are healthy!

[Damis10001]

Lovely! And you obviously stay in great shape doing this work--cheers!

[99cachorro]

@ChuckPrichard when you consider siding, insulation, drywall, it definitly adds up. rammed earth, using your own earth not trucked in has to be cheaper. lots of labor though

[santiu10]

wow