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Uploaded by on Dec 9, 2006

My first rammed earth building
20'3" x 13'6"
Walls 12" thick plus.

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  • did you fall? OMG

  • No, Just kidding

  • No color added to mix. Dry wall plaster and paint on inside to give the smooth modeled appearance. Mix was not amended with sand. Jar Test was difficult to read. Soil was so stained by red clay. Clay/Sand ratio was a bit more than 30/70. Mixed soil with portland cement at ratio of 10soil:1cement.

    Did not use well-defined expansion joints Cracks not very pronounced. I like to say walls are seismic. As walls cool I hear a very faint low frequency popping noise every now and again.

  • I'm too clastrophobic, I would need a window in that house. Where are the windows?

  • Understood. It's really not to bad. The room is not huge and the door has a nice window so this gives a nice view outside.

  • what insulation have you used? nice texture. How much rebar? Cheers really nicely done

  • Walls have no insulation. Just uses thermal mass to take average day/night temp.

    Attic has 6 inches of fiberglass insulation

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  • If I was there when you faked that fall, I would have beaten you up when you got down for scaring me.

  • @PCX13J

    :( thats a shame you could have got more hits on youtube if you did :)

  • I heard the camera's lense broke, but the guy broke his two arms and one leg, stumbling with the nails at the corner.

    ROFL.

  • how often does that happen anyway...that people die from the steel sticking out? ...like never....you must be from from that highly OSH regulated place called New Zealand. Or you are a tight-ass building inspector.

  • Vertical rebars can impale and kill you unless they are safety-capped.

  • A glass roof might work?

  • A married couple tries to build a rammed earth house in colorado. They put too much water in the mix and it wouldn't cure. The couple gave up and went back to the city until their next vacation a year later. The wall was still standing. The man tried to push it down. He couldn't. They learned from their mistake and finished building their rammed earth house.

  • I knew you would fall off that wall. lol

    Anyway, nice views of the structure. I like the t&g aspect.

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