Earthbag House 2
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I've seen other buildings with earthbags (circular buildings) that seem pretty resistant to eartquakes. Would this kind of building resist an earthquake? thanks
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Beautiful video, I admire this very much. Just watched a related video using plastic bottles sometimes filled with earth, sometimes empty. The use of layers of empty but sealed plastic bottles could provide tremendous R-value if you lined the inside and/or outside of exterior walls with them. Don't think earth bags alone have much R-value, do they?
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@exclamation3mark several reasons why, but to make it short, the windows use a wider opening, the windows are heavy commercial jobbies, and the larger bucks tend to shift when compacting bags around them. Anchoring the bucks to the concrete solved that. Door bucks were easier to keep in one place for me. I could go on, but I'll add that much of it was a learning process as I went. All three doors on the next section of the house use concrete sills as well.
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Since you're in New Mexico, are you in contact with the Earthship people? Love your house, btw :)
theShice 8 hours ago
@theShice I haven't actually contacted any earthship folks, although I'm very aware of them. I originally wanted to build an earthship, but at the time it didn't look like something I could do by myself. I've since changed my thinking on that though. Cost of an earthship also seemed prohibitive, but I've observed some revelations in earthship building that would defray costs by quite a bit - I think anyway. I do have some questions for Mr. Reynolds - in the future I might pose them.
doctordirtbag 7 hours ago
Love the song selection! Who might this be?
TheOregonPrepper 2 days ago
@TheOregonPrepper -Michael Landau - guitarist extraordinaire
doctordirtbag 2 days ago
Nice job!
How much is land going for (out away from the beaten path, like your house is located)?
Good choice of music.
SororThothma 2 weeks ago
@SororThothma Thanks. Smallest parcels out here are 20 acres and are going for $15-$20k. We got ours from a private seller for quite a bit less.
doctordirtbag 2 weeks ago