Post by Carjack on Jul 8, 2013 23:04:13 GMT
You will learn:
-Eco-friendly and cheap construction materials such as cob, rammed earth and straw bale.
-How to build a fancy house from these materials and recycled materials.
-How to never pay for heating.
Why this thread is the best thing you've ever read
These days if you want a good home for your family, you're expected to take out a mortgage for a typical suburban house at a cost of more than half a million dollars, meaning that after interest hits, suburban white people will never own their homes and that their stupid cardboard prisons are actually a massive liability masquerading as a hard asset.
These houses are also constructed from substandard and toxic materials, and are pretty ugly.
As Ian Stuart said, "If you don't get out of that, you need your head examined".
Which is why I'm compiling my research on how to build a house into one thread.
Cob Houses
Cob is a mix of clay, coarse sand and straw. It's mixed, wet, rolled up into balls and piled by hand to construct walls and floors.
Advantages:
-The source materials are inexpensive, and some can be mined from your own property depending on where you live.
-Houses usually cost under $50k
-Learning to build with cob is easy.
-Fireproof and bulletproof.
-The walls are over a foot thick and will stabilize indoor temperatures, cutting down on heating and cooling costs.
-Cob houses in England and Wales are still being used centuries after they were first built.
Cob building resources and tutorials:
www.cobcottage.com/
weblife.org
weblife.org/cob/pdf/cob_builders_handbook.pdf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_83Nsf0z1s
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cob+house+soil
Video introduction and tours of cob houses:
A few other construction materials
Straw bale:
Simply pile up straw bales as walls or as insulation.
Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbORHvveTY
Rammed earth:
Rammed earth houses are made by packing dirt down tightly with hand tools or machinery, until the dirt is as hard as sandstone.
Earthbag:
home.howstuffworks.com/earthbag-home.htm
Cordwood construction:
From Wikipedia: "Cordwood construction (also called "cordwood masonry," "stackwall construction" or "stackwood construction") is a term used for a natural building method in which "cordwood" or short pieces of debarked tree are laid up crosswise with masonry or cob mixtures to build a wall."
Accessories
Rocket mass heater (burns twigs and fallen branches to warm up your house):
www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
Cob oven
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFuGzhPxofE
How to build a tire wall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cer3WKTOcy8
How to build an outdoor stone wall (also relevant to building foundations)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOlpjWGclPo
-Eco-friendly and cheap construction materials such as cob, rammed earth and straw bale.
-How to build a fancy house from these materials and recycled materials.
-How to never pay for heating.
Why this thread is the best thing you've ever read
These days if you want a good home for your family, you're expected to take out a mortgage for a typical suburban house at a cost of more than half a million dollars, meaning that after interest hits, suburban white people will never own their homes and that their stupid cardboard prisons are actually a massive liability masquerading as a hard asset.
These houses are also constructed from substandard and toxic materials, and are pretty ugly.
As Ian Stuart said, "If you don't get out of that, you need your head examined".
Which is why I'm compiling my research on how to build a house into one thread.
Cob Houses
Cob is a mix of clay, coarse sand and straw. It's mixed, wet, rolled up into balls and piled by hand to construct walls and floors.
Advantages:
-The source materials are inexpensive, and some can be mined from your own property depending on where you live.
-Houses usually cost under $50k
-Learning to build with cob is easy.
-Fireproof and bulletproof.
-The walls are over a foot thick and will stabilize indoor temperatures, cutting down on heating and cooling costs.
-Cob houses in England and Wales are still being used centuries after they were first built.
Cob building resources and tutorials:
www.cobcottage.com/
weblife.org
weblife.org/cob/pdf/cob_builders_handbook.pdf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_83Nsf0z1s
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cob+house+soil
Video introduction and tours of cob houses:
A few other construction materials
Straw bale:
Simply pile up straw bales as walls or as insulation.
Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbORHvveTY
Rammed earth:
Rammed earth houses are made by packing dirt down tightly with hand tools or machinery, until the dirt is as hard as sandstone.
Earthbag:
home.howstuffworks.com/earthbag-home.htm
Cordwood construction:
From Wikipedia: "Cordwood construction (also called "cordwood masonry," "stackwall construction" or "stackwood construction") is a term used for a natural building method in which "cordwood" or short pieces of debarked tree are laid up crosswise with masonry or cob mixtures to build a wall."
Accessories
Rocket mass heater (burns twigs and fallen branches to warm up your house):
www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
Cob oven
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFuGzhPxofE
How to build a tire wall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cer3WKTOcy8
How to build an outdoor stone wall (also relevant to building foundations)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOlpjWGclPo
