Earthbag Building - Almost ANYONE CAN DO THIS!!
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2021
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• HOW TO FILL EARTHBAGS ...
This video shows everything you need to know about filling earthbags. The concepts are very simple......the work itself is a little tougher.
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Great btw. No annoying music, fake exuberance. Straight to the point. Thank you.
No problem. I hate that s*** too
This is interesting. I just purchased my land. I am getting different ideas for building my tiny home. I like this concept.
You should consider hyperadobe for a tiny home… that is what I would use. They are more versatile as far as shaping and overall I think they would be easier than these 😎
If you do decide to go with earthbags, a dome would be a little more sturdy, and you wouldn't have to worry about engineering a roof or buying any other materials. You can cover them with adobe or concrete, depending on how natural you want, or pricing, whichever is more important to you. The domes also tend to be really strong too. There's quite a bit of info on here as well as online in general about building them safely if you are interested 😀 (btw, if you want an extra nudge, I believe I saw somewhere that the cost of an earthbag dome was about 14$/sqft on average to build, while an average tiny house was about 114$/sqft)
@@OffGrit what is hyperadobe
@@kerryann2036 they are continuous tubes that look like onion bags . They have a lot of advantages to bags . One being that you don’t need to do the barbwire in between layers… main disadvantage is that they are stationary and once you get higher on the walls, moving dirt can be tedious.
I like it too because it sounds good bulletproof and warm in the winter cool in the summer.
I seriously love this idea.... Thank you
It's crazy, in 2011 I set out and built my first earth home, watching this brings back memories of my first bag I filled with my Prego wife standing there and me saying, well, this is going to take forever... 😦😦😦
I learned real quick and developed a funnel and system I think my max bag fill in a day was 100 or more...
It's all on Facebook search 2012 Earth bag home and property project. But seeing more people doing it is crazy, back when I did it nobody really believed in it...
I'm actually on my second house build and have innovative design ideas, from having a crawls space that doubles as a cooling tube, to indoor outdoor connected fish ponds... I've kinda took the earth ship design and made it more traditional and square without the U or back filling.
Good to see humans being human and working with what God gave freely instead of the rat race, which seems to end at a brick wall 🧱 here in 2022 lol
P.S stack the whole course of bags then tamp them, you gain twice the tinsel strength and compaction brings each course higher, less elbow grease in other words... 👍
thanks, this one is almost completed and we will be working on our house soon, but we are going to us shipping containers. we are going to incorporate earth berming into our design as well as using earth tubes for cooling.
I am up at the pinky Tip of Michigan lots of water basically have a massive plateau about 80 to 90 feet up from my springfed creek bed which is a wetland area that attaches to a river… I'm also manipulating in modifying redirecting small bits of the springfed creek to create a fill for my gravity feed and to keep my critters water fresh and then I use the runoff from that for irrigation and fertilizer. berming has been my friend. Even in the coldest winter I rarely need much heat so I just make biochar and use the radiant heat from that to bring us above the 40° norm in the winter...
It's always nice and cool even at the hottest point of the summers ... makes me wonder why people build up into the sky. I use light tubes and mirrors... and then my south facing pitch I've done as walpini design to maximize the winter solstice light and heat options...
I'm 60 and I've run an animal sanctuary and I work full-time and this is a work intensive lifestyle but it's so worthwhile and I feel so connected to my surroundings. It's also nice that I don't have to worry about the grid going down or skyrocketing energy costs. Nor am I concerned about grocery store shelves because I don't purchase food I grow my food or I barter with local farmers first things I cannot or do not grow... it's awesome to see other people being innovative and sharing thank you so much.
@@suzyskye733 I seriously felt every word. That freedom and connection is a spiritual one and I know what you mean about the harmonic balance of everything...
I wish longevity and continued success with your walk with the creator and creations, I envy you 👍
Estoy pensando en adquirir una plancha apisonadora a motor , cree que quedará más firme ? Aún no estoy convencido de la firmeza antisismica de este tipo de estructura
Oh well done !!! Nice job!! 👍😀👍
Looks like Hard Work!
Arizona native! I hope to get my land soon and start my journey to build my own off grid earthbag home
Totally awesome
Good job!!! ❤
Bravo t'es courageux mon gars. J'espere que tu vas y passer du bon temps dans ta maison.
Thanks for the video. I'm doing a gravel bag foundation for a straw bale greenhouse using 18"x30 bags. They must be around 80-100lbs each. So much work!
Thanks so much for this clear and concise video, it answered all my questions. Good luck with your build from the UK.
Glad it helped
Cool!
Nice job.
Excellent.
This helped me a lot!
Nice 👍👍👍 work
Thanks some on posted this on Facebook is how I just found your channel
REDCLAY HOMESTEAD 🙏 thank You I greatly appreciate it
Es un gran trabajo.
very interesting ideas
This looks really solid. 👍
Hello
Nice one... just subbed...
Amen~!
Loving the filling station. I'm definitely going to build one of them when I start my own project. I'm thinking about building an earthbag cistern for rainwater as well, don't see a lot of information on them though.
Most definitely 🙏💪. I know it would work as far as a cistern goes... This building flooded when I first moved out here and it was a cistern...not by choice... But if you dig out the first couple feet like this one and then make the walls the bulk of the water pressure will be distributed in the ground and then you could probably get away with filling it full with a liner
I have been dreaming of living in a dome house since the mid 1980. I'm in.
Wow, very nice job. I should go to your channel and see the rest of the videos related to this build.
Where did you buy these bags and what is the size?
These size bags seem to be more manageable and easier to work with than some of the others that I have seen on RUclips.
Thanks for the video.
Thanks Fred. These were purchased at Sandbaggy.com and they are 14x26” and definitely get the UV protected ones
How many bags approximately per small house?
10yrs later☺
Great video, thanks 👍
Lol thanks 🙏
There is a place in Maricopa that is loaded with free sandbags. Don’t know how well they’d hold up to something like this. But, there’s plenty to help yourself to.
Thanks for the video.
Just bought 875 24X30 discounted bags. I need a thousand but will get lots extra for possible future projects. Depends if I survive this one eh?
The discount bags are an order from a now bankrupt business and there's "only" 40,000 of them. lol
Have a great one.
Awesome man congrats 🎉. Where did you get them
Hello just coming across this beautiful idea I was just curious on how many sandbags you might have used in this project?
Hello , thank you. It was around 950 bags for this one.
6:25 GREAT IDEA !!!!
I am a big fan of this type of construction, because of low energy consumption for air conditioning. Stucco over the outside and drywall inside. A user friendly wire might work faster than string tie.
Buy buena idea esas dos voca para la tierra felisidades
A shout out to Nader Khalili for developing this form of earth architecture ✌🏼
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Hey man, do you think it's better to make it with a lot of small bags like this, or some long complete bags like to cover the whole wall or the perimeter of the house? I think for me is easyer to load them like you in your station, buen maybe it would be a better structure with a single long bag each layer....
Or maybe 1 layer bricks 1 layer whole bag....
Well, there are actually a lot of people out here that build hyper Adobe or super Adobe and which it is a continuous tube. And overall, I think that they are structurally better than this method. However, in certain circumstances these bags are actually better at least for me because number one. I like the fact that these are mobile and that I can fill them in one place, move them another place etc. So there's that. Also, I now have a tractor that I will be setting up to fill at least 12 bags at a time if not more so it will be faster than doing the tubes. Thnx
@@OffGrit ohhh, great job man, thanks!!!
How do you do the barbed wire? Completely new to this so sorry if it’s already included in the bag or anything. We’re looking to build one in the back yard
So you can buy the barbed wire separately (tractor supply, Lowe’s Home Depot) and you do a course on the bags (layer) and then you roll usually 2 lines of babrbed wire between each layer. Once you do the next layer you then tamp the bags to make sure they are well attached to the previous layer.. the barbed wire prevents shifting
Do you know if earth bag construction is allowed in Wyoming? I've been reading through the building code and haven't found anything that rules it out, although it may have to have timber frame as well. Thanks, and nice video.
Hello. I don't know at all. Best thing to do is contact the county planner in your area
I enjoyed this. Did you dig out foundations or did you start laying the sacks on the earth?
I laid these directly on earth. I did dig a trench around the outside perimeter and laid a moisture barrier in the trench and over the first couple courses of bags to keep them dry. I know people dig out a foundation and use gravel etc.... one thing out where I live is that the ground is extremely hard so it doesn't really require it for a build like this.... But if you live in a place with less stable soil and get a lot of rain, digging a trench with gravel underneath the bags may be a good idea
@OffGrit Thanks for the reply!
You've inspired me!
Thank you for sharing this 🙏. Do you need fondations or you can start directly with earthbags at the bottom?
Most people will put a trench with gravel as the foundation. On this one I put a moisture barrier around the perimeter and the bags are directly on the ground... Where I live the ground is extremely hard so it works
@@OffGrit cheers. Do you think this could works for a tropical island ?
@@povbodyboard if I were to build this on a tropical island, I would make sure that the roof overhang was at least a couple of feet in all directions... Might also put up a moisture barrier on bags and then use lath with a stucco mix for the coating... There are people building these all over the world and I have seen them in rain forests so I think yes.... You may just have to consider what type of soil you have to fill the bags and see if there needs to be amendments made...
How many bags per day can someone do (w 1 person)? And do you have to use barbwire between rows, or is there a way to not use that but still have them not move or slide off each other? And do you think its better to build several small rooms joined up or just 1 big room instead?
Edited in later; oops, you addressed the question of # of bags per hour halfway in.
You don't HAVE to use barbwire BUT it can easily become unstable after 4-5ft.... If you use bags that are wider you could be ok . Also I used to look at military structures built with sandbags and they have some interesting setups that don't use it between the bags
May I ask what the pvc pipe throughout, in-between your earth bags are for??
Those are for ventilation
The steel plate you were using is a railroad tie plate. Plate that is placed on the RR tie and the rail (track) is placed on it. Then comes the spikes.
Thank you!
@@OffGrit we would weld about 9 of them together and 3 spikes on each side so as to slip them over our livestock water troughs floats. Damn hogs wouldn't just drink water but tear the floats up. RR plates were so damn heavy we had fewer instances.
Soooo...
What about the 🐛 and bugs?
Does it survive a cyclone?
I’m in AZ, I was wondering If you filled a horde of bags first before you place them?
Yes. I have since used a tractor with sifter to fill
Is this just earth or do you/can you mix concrete in it?
You can mix concrete or cement.. I don't need to because our soil has good ratios out here
door handle finnaly got my coat after 5 year oooo how mad i was
Nice man! How long did it take to do all this on your own?
Paul filled roughly 21 bags per hour. Each level of bags took about 2 hours to lay barbed wire and tamper. The digging .... lol ran into caliche so that took a while.
@@OffGrit That evil Caliche!.... maybe there is a way to make caliche block homes?!?! They will never fall down, lol
How do you tell the difference from caliche to clay?
@@ripsagoly caliche has rocks that appear locked into its matrix and more calcium that acts like cement. Just my take
So earth bag homes don't have rooves?
AMAZING MAY WE KNOW WHATS NEXT PLS?
Hello and thank you 😊 I have this thing almost finished. .. we are now working on furnishing a tiny home made out of pallets and this earthbag is going to be a mushroom grow room . If you watch our channel I will be posting more on this build soon
You don't compress it before you close it?
How much rate of one bag soil filling
I can do 20 per hour
I was to move to cochise and build. How long did this take you? However I build my home I plan to camp out and finish it then move in.
it still isnt done..lol. although i have been bouncing around to about 5 different projects at once.
@@OffGrit I really want to make a dome that I keep adding additional domes to over time. The first one I worry will take too long. Especially if I'm alone.
@@oOAjjOo my advice to someone that would want to live in something and add to it, ,,,, i would go with a shed or a cheaper rv... it is a long process and almost every video i watch of these being built is with a group of people which is a different ballgame when you have help.... a shed can be built fairly quick (livable in a couple of weeks if you spend about $1500-2k) and then you can take your time on the build....
@@OffGrit yeah. I think I can build a cabin pretty quickly by myself. I just feel a super adobe would work best in this climate. I guess I'll just stick to the cabin.
How many bags do you estimate it would take for a small building
Hello, I recently figured out that ROUGHLY 2.27 bags per SQ ft of wall
Where do you by your bags and how much do they cost?
I get them @ sandbaggy.com they cost between.30 - .33 cents each ...I don't remember. I know the more you buy the better deal
What is that pipe for in the wall?
They are for ventilation
What's next for me. I'm in. I'll start tonight. Just tell me where I go. Who I talk to.
Why sandbags and not the long earthbag tubes ? Thx
4:30 of this video I explain it:
ruclips.net/video/v01bo5Ngiwc/видео.html
Grape bibbeo mayn. It helpy me lod.
😂 thanks man
What size are those bags?? They look like the perfect size..
These are 14x26
@@OffGrit thank you
What about worms ? Thanks
Where did you get your bags from?
I got these from Sandbaggy.com
@@OffGrit thank you very much, in the process of buying my material to start building soon.
Where are you located (roughly)?
Southern Arizona Cochise County
How many bags do you need?
This structure was close to 1k bags for 275 sq ft... but it is partially in the ground so we used less
Any danger to bags exposed to the sun for a prolonged period of time?
Yes there can be. We got ours covered before there were any issues. I also bought UV resistant bags
@@OffGrit “UV resistant”, good point. I’ll look 👀 into that locally.
Thanks
I was told i had to use cement in with sand? Is this true?
Well...... Not sure what your dirt is like... I have a good mix of clay/sand so it isn't necessary for me to add cement ..
@@OffGrit Thank you for answering no one else has. I live in Oklahoma. I was just going to use sand. But the first two rows I was going to use rocks. I was going to use rebar and wire to secure and lock down more. Tornados are common and lots of lightening.. I wasn't going to use cement because I live on a thousand a month. But I will now because several say it's needed. Im just trying to have a home so I don't freeze like last year or cook like now.
My question is, how do you do the roof?
hello I have had a roof on this for a couple of years,,, the roof is a standard lean to style roof with metal panels over pallet slats and a diy steel truss. thanks for watching
Barbed wire "holds" it? How? Wouldn't it just tear?
Yeah I know it sounds strange but it does. It acts kind of like Velcro, especially once the bags start weighing more and more. On top of it, The dirt just creates alot of weight... Plus the barbed wire is continuous without brakes so it attaches the next course to the previous course etc
Bro...are you doing all this by yourself?
yep... it has evolved quite a bit since, but i had a lot of time to think out here LOL
No ....thankyou! :)
Hello dear this bags how many grams have
Are you wanting to know the weight with the dirt? If so between 40- 50 lbs each
Looks like your beginning rows are hardly overlapped
Well the structure has been done for a couple years and it is just fine. Most bags were staggered
Bags would be very heavy with that much dirt in them
Where in Arizona is this
Hey 👋 this is Cochise county
Near Sierra vista, tombstone, Pearce. RU4 property.
can someone design a cheap digger/bag filling machine ?
I have one in one of my later videos... Involved a tractor and a sifting screen. I was able to fill 12 bags at a time with minimal effort
@@OffGrit --- cool --- something fully auto would be a game changer, maybe something that works slow but continuously.
Hope you bought a new coat with the money you saved by doing this..😂
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Very interesting. There is no kind of foundation on this house, just standing straight down on the ground?
Hello, no this is just an outbuilding but yes it is just on the ground. The ground out here is very hard... There is a moisture barrier around the perimeter that is buried below grade to block water....
What about UV corrosion?
Some people have had issues with that. However, I had these bags covered before it became a problem. Plus I bought the UV protected versions