I don't get the benefit to having a middle with insulation. It seems like a harder pour, more steps. Wouldn't having a solid wall of rammed earth work as insulation anyway?
Beautiful lady with a lovely voice. Gorgeous home. We are building ours new month. Getting started is what I should have said. Loved the video. So inspiring.
Beautiful ! I would love a Rammed earth Tiny Home , so now they need to be Affordable for those who dont have the means, as in. What a Tiny Home has done for so many.. 🙏♥️💕
@@kenhurley4441 can you also come and volunteer to teach in the Philippines ? A lot of people are interested to learn here but most don’t have the means. I’m trying to advocate environment-friendly ways to build houses and we would love to host you.
Kinda stumbled across this topic. Have been fascinated by homesteading/minimalist getting back to basics lifestyle. The big question was if this was even achievable as a sole provider for a large blended family. I’m now extremely fascinated by this concept, and look forward to exploring it further. Thank you for sharing this video. Knowledge is power!
Rammed earth, Hemp/lime construction & Biotechture Earthship design should be the mainstream for building today and the future. conforming to Brick veneerial disease is mad.
Do you have any resources for builders and kits-plans for these? Can I order labor and/or builders for these with ease that are competent in America? Any resources for the east coast?
@Ryan Anderson Thanks. I have heard this, but seem many are going up. Hope the laws change on these being allowed everywhere. Some rebates and incentives to build them instead ) Peace and Best Wishes!
Just keep saying its concrete. They will usually inspect plans and molds and holes but they dont watch the pour. Then they check the finish. Just keep saying its concrete.
I live in an area where Radon is an issue. It's caused, as I understand form elements in the soil decomposing. Minerial, not organic elements, so does rammed earth release Radon ?
Has anyone used a vibratory plate compactor to compact their rammed earth wall? I am planning on building thicker rammed earth walls (approx. 18 inches thick) and a plate compactor I own is about 17 inches wide and do not relish using a tiny hydraulic or hand tamper for a year or more to construct my house. The plate compactor is designed to compact dry soil anyway, so why couldn't put in your lifts of properly mixed soil, use the plate compactor to compact to the rammed earth to the desired density, then repeat for each layer? I will do a test this spring and see how it goes, but wondering if anyone every used this method?
great just remember to make test runs for psi test and make sure your forms are secure and strong because the surface in 17 inches plate is to wide and my need more (time /duration) and more pressure to compact down
I don't use these techniques in my projects anymore, because it's time consuming and the training of labor is rigorous. I'm hibernating staggered wall stick frame construction and adobe brick with great success.
sorry for the delay and I say yes to both of your questions, you can contact me at onlinegoods4less@gmail.com for more information visit onlinegoods4less.myshopify.com/pages/rammed-earth
I am confused with so many options ? What is best for me, i have fertile soil, water source, mud, hay, (wood is not cheap at my location) so can opt for bamboo. To reduce dampness in future, my plan is to get stone foundation (which will be a bit expensive) and 2-2.5 ft stone wall and on top adobe brick, or rammed or cob ??? pls suggest, it dosent snow, but rain 3 months, summers hot 42 degree and winters cold 7 to 8 degree
All depends on your idea of a tiny house And if you have a permit for a tiny house in your city or county but I will say if you hire a contractor you will be spending around 65k or if you build it with friends and family and church members helping you can build a great tiny house for as low as 25k all included
Thanks for the great information. I wonder about the seismic design of the rammed-earth building. In this video, you only mention that it is ductile. Ductility is not enough to resist lateral forces during a massive quake. You need a perfect shear wall design for lateral loads. Is there any study for the seismic design of rammed earth structural systems?
The idea of using compressed dirt is very old and still great in many applications. And no real offense intended but the idea that it would cure global warming or cooling or the common cold needs to remain on the short bus.
I agree. It's very labor intensive to build. It requires a massive amount of wooden frame construction to contain the earth as it is being tamped down. What happens to all that wood when the project is done? It's all been cut up into shapes very specific to the house being built and unless you are building several exactly like it you can't reuse all of that wood. It is either discarded, burned, or chopped up into something that might be recyclable. The only thing that is "cheap" about the building method is the dirt. It would be cheaper to just build the house out of the wood that would have been used to build the framework.
@@HotspotsSoutheast plus all of the thick, solid, expensive and extensive use of architectural beams, walls, stairs and hardwood flooring. Nevermind the nonstop burning of dirty medium sulfur off-road diesel fuel thats powering the entire process.. starting with the first bucket of dirt all the way through screening, mixing, prepping, (hauling?), and even the pneumatic tamping she was so cluelessly proud of. Thats right, the compressed air for tamping on that scale typically comes from a Sullair brand diesel compressor - the thing is its own trailer - and its going to run alllll day long for months. Good thing it'll last forever, 'cause thats how long it'll take to break even with its carbon footprint. For comparison, a similar concrete home with hot/cold water circulating through the walls and floors is built in 1/3 the time using recyclable aluminum forms that are reusable many times over. Concrete is also mostly sand and gravel, dye can be added for color, and embossed forms for texture. There is nothing cheap or conservative about the home shown, in fact it exemplifies the comedic irony surrounding every idealistic pie-in-the-sky notion coming out of certain annoying demographics. Truth is we just watched a company promotional video disguised as a heartfelt eco do-gooder trying to improve the world... just another in a long line.
@@HotspotsSoutheast use steel frames instead of wood. It can be used again and again and again, as interlocking modules. Have a question: Is there any kind of rebar, or just dirt?
I like her optimistic attitude, but everyone having a rammed earth house would not mean that global warming would be solved, although it would help a hell of a lot at reducing it. Great video none the less :)
the wall itself is the thermal insulation because of the size of the wall around 16 inches wide and some builders will ad foam insolation in the center of the wall
Hello Jose. Would you please explain how this structure could be earthquake resistant.? Have you performed any structural tests to prove this point. What municipality this house was approved in? Structures like these are very popular in Western Africa, but possibility of building these structures are zero in, for example, San Mateo county.
All projects are different most of this are in Australia and many of them are in New Mexico in the usa the Extructual engineers calculate the rebar needed for seismic resistance or earthquake resistance
Jose Alvarado In Australia you are lucky, low seismicity allows you to have buildings built from URM (Unreinforced Masonry) and contemporary buildings together. I was in Sydney and Melbourne last September and was impressed with architecture. Here in California we cannot build buildings like you are proposing in this video because this structural system is not listed in the CBC (California Building Code) and no municipality will approve project like this. I am a Structural Engineer and I would not dare to design structure like this because it could collapse on the occupants during seismic event. Nobody tested shear walls like you are proposing, you just cannot rely on bond between reinforcing steel and mud mixed with cement. So, claim that this is an EQ resistant structure is a big-big stretch.....
Igor Kharitonoff I will say we have a lot to learn but is possible to create a strong structure with this materials www.construction.eca.ed.ac.uk/case-study/down-to-earth-materials/
Jurylin Faschar it is up to you and the soil composition that you have at hand but in general is around 8% cement I have used 5% in some planter walls and I love it but for structural support I use 8% to 10% most of the time don’t forget the metal rebar
this is a great question one example is the new freeway lanes downtown in las vegas is producing hundreds of tons of dirt and they are relocating it or the pool companies sometimes give and deliver that dirt for free
They sa in all of the U.S. but here in the northeast we have been getting loads of rain. Wonder how well it holds up or is there a concrete binder mixed in for strength?
There are some risks on a higher moisture zone but all areas are ok to build with rammed earth just test different concrete % in walls before building the hole house
that is impossible if you install insulation in the walls that will only occur if the walls are thick rammed earth and have no insulation some architects like to add insulation in the walls for coold and heavy snow areas.
Actually the right answer is, that it works exactly as without insulation, BUT with insulation the heat transfer is much slower. So in summer the outside is heating inside slower and in winter the opposite. End result is lower need for additional heating/cooling -> lower energy consumption and more steady temperature inside
Past three years I educating people about this, unfortunately I haven't found any client for my consultancy, being and Architect its very important to inculcate the true concept of a building, its material, and construction technique
Oh ok, I would think having things like plumbing and electrical in those walls would weaken the structure and make it susceptible to cracking. How would you service a broken plumping pipe inside that wall?
to build one you need an idea of what kind of home you want how many bedrooms and baths will need to decide where you want to build it , i mean in what property you will need to design your foundation to support your rammed earth walls weight you will need an extrucure engineer to sumith the right plans to the city or county in jurisdiction all that depends in where you live and much more but i love that you are interested in building a rammed earth home they are amazing and beautiful they are worth the wait of construction time
This is a really great thing. However, the design could have been more suited for rammed Earth. The building could have more walls and less wood, also some principles learned from the Earthship people such as passive heating and cooling.
The formal building standard states clearly do not use cement. Why builders add it is odd when the international code states that cement inhibits the bond.
the right answer is anything is possible but I will prefer to stay in the 2 story size in las vegas, there is a building called springs preserve is made of rammed earth and is a public 3 story building all rammed earth building
You can also embed a hanging strip of wood into the wall during forming if you wish to have have many things hung on a wall. Think of similar to a chair rail. In general you design rooms such that there is a mix of RE and wallboard walls in a single room so you can hang things on the wallboard.
Is this suited for Florida and Florida is hurricanes, mold, allergies, and I can go on on bugs, This is what the coast need to do and also Monolithic domes and they both suit the same purpose. Earthquake proof, hurricanes, fires, etc. and Bugs and roof proof as well. Beautiful and I wish all building will be building like this and especially, in the Panhandle and the coast where hurricanes are getting bigger and stronger.
@@JoseAlvarado72 I'm all about trying to live clean but as a Christian it pertains to the Spirit, flesh is of no account except defiling it with sinful lust. You can't sidestep mammon and it's poisons you have to breathe. We are not conCERNED and HAARPing on dying, we know the truth, most are already dead...puns intended
This will be difficult but they won't lose, the same with citeh, holding si the only worry especially if they play Nunez against him (who's like a blunt machete, like can still hurt you ) Trossard to start for initial control, but Gabi as a sub will kill them
With the middle layer of insulation I fail to see how, either, the humidity can be drawn out or the "slowly released" heat exchange between the exterior to the interior could happen when it has the barrier of I'm assuming closed cell foam? She also thinks that she's saving the forests and yet still has a significant quantity of processed timber in her house, which I'm pretty sure is still flammable- so sure her walls might still remain after a fire but that'd be about it!! Looks good though....
I understand the heat exchange won’t be possible without a Air System in place There are no limits to the different ways of construction of the walls some walls of rammed earth have no insulation at all and the earth bricks have no insulation either so those walls breath Is a design for the region that you live all are different
Too true. It can't go mainstream because it's so labor intensive. Can't do tracts of houses in subdivisions in a city with this method. I'd still love to build one though... A rammed earth straw bale hybrid design.
And the fuel costs it takes to mix the earth amd fill the walls. Not to mention the cement mixed into the walls. And the high fuel costs ut takes to heat a rammed earth home because of the low insulation values
Here in Brazil this is one of the cheapests ways to build, yet few people do it simply because they don't know it exists. That might change from now on, as this method was put in official normative in 2022. Here we have cheap labour and expensive materials, so when you find a way to build with a material available everywhere, it's affordable to hire workers to build.
I have learned one thing from these things. All of these are cost-saving unless you build yourself with the help of friends and family (which means lots of labor ). Because all these methods are not so common and are also time taking processes.
Yes, but corporations get their hands on everything good and then ruin it by making it unaffordable bc of the profits they have to make on literally anything....
all the plans are in the county on the respective city you can buy a copy of them by the county any time you can buy them from the construction company also
Interresting! What's exactly the composition of the building material if it's sementless concrete? And what's the average cost of rammed earth home? Thank you?
there are no exact material compositions all areas of the world are different in color and in clay percentage, some dirt is more sand than clay but you can test the following for load pressures 60 to 80 % dirth 20 to 30% clay 3 to 8% sand 4 to 10% portland cement remember this is a drypack consistency you use what is best for you
the cost varies if you round it up is about the same cost of a conventional home if you make it your self as owner build you can save lots of money I have seen people build their home by hand for as little as $36 dollars SQFT
I love concrete despite the "coldness". This is beautifully similar, but much warmer in appearance. There is no significant man made global warming, we'd been duped by profiteers... ... efficiency, beauty, and art in design and construction, are totally worthwhile regardless.
Oh this is pretty cool. This looks like it works great with the compressed earth blocks. Or maybe even beats them in some ways? Can you form large floor slabs and foundations.
all is possible is just a mater of planing and making the calculation and testing before you commit to do it in large scale did you know that travertine , sand stone , marbles, and granite use to be dirt and mother nature compressed them to todays product.
@@JoseAlvarado72 yes well earth has alot more compressing energy and heat then most any men can make. This is attempting to form sand stone with out heat or constant pressure. Using a binder like cement. Anyway i like the idea but i want something with a much smoother finish like porcelin which i know is possible because ive seen sheer zones in rocks that are silk smooth. The problem is the need for extreme compression and time spent compressed. Compressing it warms it already so that helps but it really needs to cook at a high psi. Im thinking bigger stronger heavyer molds. Faced with a high density polymer and backed with steel and hydrolics. Compress the material for long enough and hard enough and yeah you can have man made stone stronger then any stone. Basically i want to make this match or exceed granite specs. As granite is a very very good building stone. Honestly before finding compressed earth tech all i wanted was black granite. And i still think black granite is the most beautiful of stone. Anyway this is something i plan on learning from its a intersting alternative to concrete which i dont like that much.
@@robertbogan225 that is great idea and i do love granite too i wish i build a house of pure granite and thank you for your info i bet someone out there is already compressing large amounts of materials for greater results and faster builds love the human mind there are no limits
nothing was mentioned about how this rammed earth gets rammed. as shown at 0:47 am I to believe it is rammed with the hand tool shown? I would think a good 'sideways rain' would wash the place away by morning. I will do a bit more research but would like to hear from someone knowledgeable on the subject. thank you
@@JoseAlvarado72 I helped build such a home near Beckley, West Virginia. It was the design of craftsmen from Germany. It was a beautiful mansion, stuccoed inside and out, copper roof, and solid copper gutters and downspouts!
One day, when the doctors fix me I want one but does anyone know the cost? I need to know if it’ll fit into my plans. Thank you for the video even though it’s first time I saw it because it was just now recommended to me
@@yarpenzirgin1826 Lime takes C02 to create make no mistake about it. yes it takes up C02 after it reacts with water but it doesn't take up the c02 that it took to fire the limestone
Visit Algeria if you want to learn about this technique. The valley of mzab ( Ghardaia, and five other cities), plus the city of old Algiers ( kasbah), still standing and occupied after five centuries.
@Darren Munsell thanks! Concrete is always the go to but would be very Interested to see rammed earth foundations to keep the environmental credentials. Could see water being an issue but plastic lining for this sounds like a good solution!
Love this home..thank you
I don't get the benefit to having a middle with insulation. It seems like a harder pour, more steps. Wouldn't having a solid wall of rammed earth work as insulation anyway?
you are right is better just dirt
they just overdid it and overspent because of the snow presence but is not necessary.
No it wouldn't work because rammed earth is a very poor insulator for winter.
This is the coolest thing I ever seen. How awesome!
Beautiful lady with a lovely voice. Gorgeous home. We are building ours new month. Getting started is what I should have said. Loved the video. So inspiring.
Any progress so far? How did it go? Thanks in advance!
Beautiful ! I would love a Rammed earth Tiny Home , so now they need to be Affordable for those who dont have the means, as in. What a Tiny Home has done for so many.. 🙏♥️💕
we will make one soon
@@JoseAlvarado72 Where? I'd like to be volunteer for that project. I live in SW Missouri and I'm retired. I'm an energy nut so I have a lot of ideas.
@@kenhurley4441 can you also come and volunteer to teach in the Philippines ? A lot of people are interested to learn here but most don’t have the means. I’m trying to advocate environment-friendly ways to build houses and we would love to host you.
Gonna build my tiny house with rammed earth❤️
It is Not the most space efficient
How thick will you make the walls?
As a learning project I'm going to build a rammed earth outhouse.
We are clearing our land and thinking about a rammed earth or an adobe earth bag home. Any suggestions on which one is better.
Rammed earth is better in my opinion you just need a plan and form for your walls I think is the cheapest way to build a house
Am I the only one who finds the audio and music mixing abrasive?
it definitely makes it sound like some sort of cult...
Kinda stumbled across this topic. Have been fascinated by homesteading/minimalist getting back to basics lifestyle. The big question was if this was even achievable as a sole provider for a large blended family. I’m now extremely fascinated by this concept, and look forward to exploring it further. Thank you for sharing this video. Knowledge is power!
just use adobe brick....
Ironically, these rich-eco-''hippies'' are building HUGE homes.
... not ''minimalist'' by any stretch of the imagination.
Regardless of “saving the planet” so to speak, it’s beautiful:)
Now combine this with bermed home design and we are REALLY cooking! THank you for this!
I am happy this will solve the worlds problems. I hope it will cure cancer also.
Rammed earth, Hemp/lime construction & Biotechture Earthship design should be the mainstream for building today and the future. conforming to Brick veneerial disease is mad.
oh yes
Lime is C02 intensive to create.
@@derekcraig3617 Less than cement.
You care to elaborate on that last part please???
Do you have any resources for builders and kits-plans for these? Can I order labor and/or builders for these with ease that are competent in America? Any resources for the east coast?
@Ryan Anderson Thanks. I have heard this, but seem many are going up. Hope the laws change on these being allowed everywhere. Some rebates and incentives to build them instead ) Peace and Best Wishes!
Just keep saying its concrete. They will usually inspect plans and molds and holes but they dont watch the pour. Then they check the finish. Just keep saying its concrete.
@@robertbogan225 Thank You
I live in an area where Radon is an issue. It's caused, as I understand form elements in the soil decomposing. Minerial, not organic elements, so does rammed earth release Radon ?
if you build a rammed earth hose in the area where Radon is present, yes it will be contaminated air around that area
You can build a ventilation system that will let the Radon pass through and go into the air.
Has anyone used a vibratory plate compactor to compact their rammed earth wall? I am planning on building thicker rammed earth walls (approx. 18 inches thick) and a plate compactor I own is about 17 inches wide and do not relish using a tiny hydraulic or hand tamper for a year or more to construct my house. The plate compactor is designed to compact dry soil anyway, so why couldn't put in your lifts of properly mixed soil, use the plate compactor to compact to the rammed earth to the desired density, then repeat for each layer? I will do a test this spring and see how it goes, but wondering if anyone every used this method?
great just remember to make test runs
for psi test
and make sure your forms are secure and strong
because the surface in 17 inches plate is to wide and my need more (time /duration) and more pressure to compact down
What type of insulation did the lady use between her rammed earth walls?
styrofoam block
I don't use these techniques in my projects anymore, because it's time consuming and the training of labor is rigorous. I'm hibernating staggered wall stick frame construction and adobe brick with great success.
Can you teach how to make these buildings or can you build for us for a fee?
sorry for the delay
and I say yes to both of your questions,
you can contact me at onlinegoods4less@gmail.com for more information visit onlinegoods4less.myshopify.com/pages/rammed-earth
I am confused with so many options ?
What is best for me, i have fertile soil, water source, mud, hay, (wood is not cheap at my location) so can opt for bamboo.
To reduce dampness in future, my plan is to get stone foundation (which will be a bit expensive) and 2-2.5 ft stone wall and on top adobe brick, or rammed or cob ???
pls suggest, it dosent snow, but rain 3 months, summers hot 42 degree and winters cold 7 to 8 degree
Adobe es una buena opción térmica y resistente
It was very spiritual & down to earth experience...BEAUTIFUL
I first read about rammed earth houses in "THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS/Magazine." in the early 70's.
Used to be my favorite magazine. They sure have changed.
Mycellum bricks with thin slab of rammed earth for good finish??
Can we drill holes and hang large screen televisions on wall or it required any reinforcement ??
What about flood regions? Will it be suitable?
only if you know the water flow areas' height and project a concrete foundation for redirecting a water flow. but yes is possible
How much would a tiny house version of this cost and are there builders who build them? Thank you.
All depends on your idea of a tiny house
And if you have a permit for a tiny house in your city or county but I will say if you hire a contractor you will be spending around 65k or if you build it with friends and family and church members helping you can build a great tiny house for as low as 25k all included
Thanks for the great information. I wonder about the seismic design of the rammed-earth building. In this video, you only mention that it is ductile. Ductility is not enough to resist lateral forces during a massive quake. You need a perfect shear wall design for lateral loads. Is there any study for the seismic design of rammed earth structural systems?
The idea of using compressed dirt is very old and still great in many applications. And no real offense intended but the idea that it would cure global warming or cooling or the common cold needs to remain on the short bus.
I agree. It's very labor intensive to build. It requires a massive amount of wooden frame construction to contain the earth as it is being tamped down. What happens to all that wood when the project is done? It's all been cut up into shapes very specific to the house being built and unless you are building several exactly like it you can't reuse all of that wood. It is either discarded, burned, or chopped up into something that might be recyclable. The only thing that is "cheap" about the building method is the dirt. It would be cheaper to just build the house out of the wood that would have been used to build the framework.
@@HotspotsSoutheast plus all of the thick, solid, expensive and extensive use of architectural beams, walls, stairs and hardwood flooring.
Nevermind the nonstop burning of dirty medium sulfur off-road diesel fuel thats powering the entire process.. starting with the first bucket of dirt all the way through screening, mixing, prepping, (hauling?), and even the pneumatic tamping she was so cluelessly proud of. Thats right, the compressed air for tamping on that scale typically comes from a Sullair brand diesel compressor - the thing is its own trailer - and its going to run alllll day long for months.
Good thing it'll last forever, 'cause thats how long it'll take to break even with its carbon footprint.
For comparison, a similar concrete home with hot/cold water circulating through the walls and floors is built in 1/3 the time using recyclable aluminum forms that are reusable many times over.
Concrete is also mostly sand and gravel, dye can be added for color, and embossed forms for texture.
There is nothing cheap or conservative about the home shown, in fact it exemplifies the comedic irony surrounding every idealistic pie-in-the-sky notion coming out of certain annoying demographics. Truth is we just watched a company promotional video disguised as a heartfelt eco do-gooder trying to improve the world... just another in a long line.
@@dash8465 Seems like the wood used could be offset with tree plantings. Could you run the compressor on bio diesel?
Its footprint is extremely low compared to conventional construction materials.
@@HotspotsSoutheast use steel frames instead of wood. It can be used again and again and again, as interlocking modules.
Have a question:
Is there any kind of rebar, or just dirt?
Kentucky and Colorado as the whole United states needs this type of homes
I like her optimistic attitude, but everyone having a rammed earth house would not mean that global warming would be solved, although it would help a hell of a lot at reducing it. Great video none the less :)
Solving sustainable housing wouldn't alone mean that no, but I think her point was sustainable housing is a key.
Such a nice lady. I wish she would have been my physics teacher...
The first 45 seconds Jim Hallock is talking about Compressed Earth Block another form of earthen construction. CEB4LYFE
Haha lol CEB4LYFE!!!
what is termal isolation inside that house?
the wall itself is the thermal insulation because of the size of the wall around 16 inches wide and some builders will ad foam insolation in the center of the wall
Hi, can rammed earth Be used in a very humid climate like Puerto Rico?
yes rammed earth homes are the same as concrete wall homes they can be use in high humidity areas
How is the wiring put into the walls?
Many ways to do that but is better to follow your engendered drawings
Don't forget metal tubing is the best
Here is a link of an example
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...and that is how sedimentary rocks are formed. But once in time, they were solid stones; and so on.
Questions does it need to put some rears?
yes rebars are essential for seismic forces protection and durability
What are the costs
the "music"-noise is soooo disturbing! Why???
Hempcrete??
Hello Jose. Would you please explain how this structure could be earthquake resistant.? Have you performed any structural tests to prove this point. What municipality this house was approved in? Structures like these are very popular in Western Africa, but possibility of building these structures are zero in, for example, San Mateo county.
All projects are different most of this are in Australia and many of them are in New Mexico in the usa the Extructual engineers calculate the rebar needed for seismic resistance or earthquake resistance
Jose Alvarado In Australia you are lucky, low seismicity allows you to have buildings built from URM (Unreinforced Masonry) and contemporary buildings together. I was in Sydney and Melbourne last September and was impressed with architecture. Here in California we cannot build buildings like you are proposing in this video because this structural system is not listed in the CBC (California Building Code) and no municipality will approve project like this. I am a Structural Engineer and I would not dare to design structure like this because it could collapse on the occupants during seismic event. Nobody tested shear walls like you are proposing, you just cannot rely on bond between reinforcing steel and mud mixed with cement. So, claim that this is an EQ resistant structure is a big-big stretch.....
Igor Kharitonoff
I will say we have a lot to learn but is possible to create a strong structure with this materials
www.construction.eca.ed.ac.uk/case-study/down-to-earth-materials/
I would. As far as environmental concerns it still requires cement mixing into the dirt. It has production cost as well.
How does it smell?
Can you pls indicate the mixing of soil and cement tnx.
Jurylin Faschar it is up to you and the soil composition that you have at hand but in general is around 8% cement I have used 5% in some planter walls and I love it but for structural support I use 8% to 10% most of the time don’t forget the metal rebar
How much did it cost? 3 mils....more?
it depends usually is $200 SQFT
but I have seen simple homes for
around $125 SQFT
Hello Jose, Where would we take the soil without damaging the earth and also how would we reinstate the extracted material? Thank you in advance
this is a great question one example is the new freeway lanes downtown in las vegas is producing hundreds of tons of dirt and they are relocating it or the pool companies sometimes give and deliver that dirt for free
Usually when you dig your foundation or basement you get alot of soil.
They sa in all of the U.S. but here in the northeast we have been getting loads of rain. Wonder how well it holds up or is there a concrete binder mixed in for strength?
There are some risks on a higher moisture zone but all areas are ok to build with rammed earth just test different concrete % in walls before building the hole house
Thanks
When you put insulation in the wall how could the walls absorb heat during the day and release it back in the house?
that is impossible if you install insulation in the walls
that will only occur if the walls are thick rammed earth and have no insulation
some architects like to add insulation in the walls for
coold and heavy snow areas.
Actually the right answer is, that it works exactly as without insulation, BUT with insulation the heat transfer is much slower. So in summer the outside is heating inside slower and in winter the opposite. End result is lower need for additional heating/cooling -> lower energy consumption and more steady temperature inside
Won't heavy rain and strong winds erode the rammed earth or is there a binding agent added to the earth?
The answer to your question is no rain or winds won't erode the rammed earth walls
they are strong just like concrete with a bonding agent added.
is this way is good with the sand ?
those beveled corners do look good
What about rain?
Can it survived
yes they can survived all kinds of rain if bild correctly
Past three years I educating people about this, unfortunately I haven't found any client for my consultancy, being and Architect its very important to inculcate the true concept of a building, its material, and construction technique
if i wanted to build a house like that, how much would it cost?
I'm guessing no plumbing or electrical in those walls?
ALL IS INSIDE THE WALLS INCLUDING, MAGNETS, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, REBAR, RADAR SENSORS, VENTILATION, ELECTRICAL, COMBINATION SAFES.
Oh ok, I would think having things like plumbing and electrical in those walls would weaken the structure and make it susceptible to cracking. How would you service a broken plumping pipe inside that wall?
that is not easy to answer there are many ways to fix that
and remember the walls are recyclable too
@@xjinit you are right. I would not place them inside the wall. You can place them inside the house and cover it up with wood cabinets.
You just build the exterior walls and load bearing walls with this. The rest can be filled in anyway you imagine. At least thats my idea.
Who can i contact if i want to build one
to build one you need an idea of what kind of home you want how many bedrooms and baths will need to decide where you want to build it ,
i mean in what property
you will need to design your foundation to support your rammed earth walls weight
you will need an extrucure engineer to sumith the right plans to the city or county in jurisdiction
all that depends in where you live
and much more but i love that you are interested in building a rammed earth home they are amazing and beautiful they are worth the wait of construction time
This is a really great thing. However, the design could have been more suited for rammed Earth. The building could have more walls and less wood, also some principles learned from the Earthship people such as passive heating and cooling.
The formal building standard states clearly do not use cement. Why builders add it is odd when the international code states that cement inhibits the bond.
@@johnm.515 Where can I verify that?
Can rammed earth be used to build skyscrapers?
the right answer is anything is possible
but I will prefer to stay in the 2 story size
in las vegas, there is a building called
springs preserve
is made of rammed earth and is a public 3 story building all rammed earth building
@@JoseAlvarado72 OK thanks
How do you hang pictures on the wall of a rammed earth house?
masonry anchors
You can also embed a hanging strip of wood into the wall during forming if you wish to have have many things hung on a wall. Think of similar to a chair rail. In general you design rooms such that there is a mix of RE and wallboard walls in a single room so you can hang things on the wallboard.
With magnets in the wall at strategic. Places
step 1: get a hammer and a nail
step 2: hammer the nail into the wall
step 3: hang whatever you want to hang
Thank you.
Randy Bachman of BTO lives in a gorgeous rammed earth house on Saltspring Island BC.
I tried rammed earth but the surface erodes when I run my fingers on it...kindly give me a solution
thanks a lot @juan... This clears a lot of my doubts 👍👍
Remember you can ad lime to the mixture 8 to 10% will help
lime the powder the white powder actually works like Portland powder I mix both in
Thanks Jose!
If you clear cut renewable pine, you are saving all the topsoil rammed earth it taking.
Is this suited for Florida and Florida is hurricanes, mold, allergies, and I can go on on bugs, This is what the coast need to do and also Monolithic domes and they both suit the same purpose. Earthquake proof, hurricanes, fires, etc. and Bugs and roof proof as well. Beautiful and I wish all building will be building like this and especially, in the Panhandle and the coast where hurricanes are getting bigger and stronger.
Anything is possible by design your house can became the perfect shelter for any environment any place.
Wow what a lovely concept..I am going to try it...thank you so much..🌹🌺🏵️🌷👌🌿☘️🍀👍🥀
Did they treat all those dead trees?
probably they did
@@JoseAlvarado72 I'm all about trying to live clean but as a Christian it pertains to the Spirit, flesh is of no account except defiling it with sinful lust. You can't sidestep mammon and it's poisons you have to breathe. We are not conCERNED and HAARPing on dying, we know the truth, most are already dead...puns intended
@@eyeswideshut2800
thanks
This will be difficult but they won't lose, the same with citeh, holding si the only worry especially if they play Nunez against him (who's like a blunt machete, like can still hurt you )
Trossard to start for initial control, but Gabi as a sub will kill them
What a powerful intro punch...
With the middle layer of insulation I fail to see how, either, the humidity can be drawn out or the "slowly released" heat exchange between the exterior to the interior could happen when it has the barrier of I'm assuming closed cell foam?
She also thinks that she's saving the forests and yet still has a significant quantity of processed timber in her house, which I'm pretty sure is still flammable- so sure her walls might still remain after a fire but that'd be about it!! Looks good though....
I understand the heat exchange won’t be possible without a Air System in place
There are no limits to the different ways of construction of the walls some walls of rammed earth have no insulation at all and the earth bricks have no insulation either so those walls breath
Is a design for the region that you live all are different
timber is actually a more eco-friendly material compared to most others. This way of building still save forests tho, by consuming less.
The rammed earth has a lot of pores which are unseen and they regulate the temperature in the building. Just like a clay pot and a brick house.
How expensive is it to build
Michael Hatem
Is dirt cheap if you build it but expensive if you hire a contractor to build it
They always fail to mention the cost. It's steep.
what makes it expensive ?
Too true. It can't go mainstream because it's so labor intensive. Can't do tracts of houses in subdivisions in a city with this method.
I'd still love to build one though... A rammed earth straw bale hybrid design.
And the fuel costs it takes to mix the earth amd fill the walls. Not to mention the cement mixed into the walls. And the high fuel costs ut takes to heat a rammed earth home because of the low insulation values
Here in Brazil this is one of the cheapests ways to build, yet few people do it simply because they don't know it exists. That might change from now on, as this method was put in official normative in 2022. Here we have cheap labour and expensive materials, so when you find a way to build with a material available everywhere, it's affordable to hire workers to build.
I have learned one thing from these things. All of these are cost-saving unless you build yourself with the help of friends and family (which means lots of labor ). Because all these methods are not so common and are also time taking processes.
Yes, but corporations get their hands on everything good and then ruin it by making it unaffordable bc of the profits they have to make on literally anything....
Yes absolutely
What is she saying at 3:25, “there are 2 Y’s” or “there are 2 wides”?
interior wall width and exterior wall width divided by insulation i think that is what they did
or in other words Wall thickness
Jose Alvarado it sound like she’s saying wideth or wideths. Lol
Lots of experts posting here.
Where do I get the home plans for this...building in California Joshua tree desert
all the plans are in the county on the respective city you can buy a copy of them by the county any time you can buy them from the construction company also
Jose Alvarado this answer does not make any sense. The city does not sell home plans
Fantastic!
Can it be made in India and what will be the cost
Interresting! What's exactly the composition of the building material if it's sementless concrete? And what's the average cost of rammed earth home? Thank you?
there are no exact material compositions all areas of the world are different in color and in clay percentage, some dirt is more sand than clay but you can test the following for load pressures
60 to 80 % dirth 20 to 30% clay 3 to 8% sand 4 to 10% portland cement
remember this is a drypack consistency
you use what is best for you
the cost varies if you round it up is about the same cost of a conventional home
if you make it your self as owner build you can save lots of money I have seen people build their home by hand for
as little as $36 dollars SQFT
I wich i could! Ill have to shut my bu a iness off for while ... To build my own home ...
What do they use for a roof?
Wood ?
@@Insan3Mach1ne But then it could be blown off by a tornado / hurricane.
@@laurabenevelli6783 yeah true, its a house not a bunker
I love concrete despite the "coldness". This is beautifully similar, but much warmer in appearance.
There is no significant man made global warming, we'd been duped by profiteers...
... efficiency, beauty, and art in design and construction, are totally worthwhile regardless.
Fuck outta here with your dumb ass conspiracy theories. You've been duped by big oil propaganda
Not only is this awesome,But these women seem like absolute angels!!
Beautiful home.
_and it's artistic, too.._
*practical* ✅
*pretty* ✅
*saves your life* ✅
Oh this is pretty cool. This looks like it works great with the compressed earth blocks. Or maybe even beats them in some ways? Can you form large floor slabs and foundations.
all is possible is just a mater of planing and making the calculation and testing before you commit to do it in large scale
did you know that travertine , sand stone , marbles, and granite use to be dirt and mother nature compressed them to todays product.
@@JoseAlvarado72 yes well earth has alot more compressing energy and heat then most any men can make. This is attempting to form sand stone with out heat or constant pressure. Using a binder like cement. Anyway i like the idea but i want something with a much smoother finish like porcelin which i know is possible because ive seen sheer zones in rocks that are silk smooth. The problem is the need for extreme compression and time spent compressed. Compressing it warms it already so that helps but it really needs to cook at a high psi. Im thinking bigger stronger heavyer molds. Faced with a high density polymer and backed with steel and hydrolics. Compress the material for long enough and hard enough and yeah you can have man made stone stronger then any stone. Basically i want to make this match or exceed granite specs. As granite is a very very good building stone. Honestly before finding compressed earth tech all i wanted was black granite. And i still think black granite is the most beautiful of stone. Anyway this is something i plan on learning from its a intersting alternative to concrete which i dont like that much.
@@robertbogan225 that is great idea and i do love granite too i wish i build a house of pure granite and thank you for your info i bet someone out there is already compressing large amounts of materials for greater results and faster builds
love the human mind
there are no limits
Not sure if it would work on the west coast of Florida with sand in soil.
You can run a test for psi load for approval we tested several times before building
Can you paint the inside walls? As long as it's eco-frendly?
yes but is better not to paint only seal them
they are some sort of art
@@JoseAlvarado72 Thankyou for your responce 🤗
The walls show that they are made in layers. Is there rebar added to ensure strength? It looks gorgeous!
Yes.
nothing was mentioned about how this rammed earth gets rammed.
as shown at 0:47 am I to believe it is rammed with the hand tool shown?
I would think a good 'sideways rain' would wash the place away by morning.
I will do a bit more research but would like to hear from someone knowledgeable on the subject.
thank you
gary gerard that is just one way of ramming by hand
It's still cost prohibitive initially which will scare away most.
Come now, dearie, is dirt really really the only ingredient in that construction?
Why not simply use concrete? More expensive, but less labor intensive.
many people uses concrete construction over rammed earth is just a material choice some like bricks others like concrete and others like rammed earth.
@@JoseAlvarado72 Do you know anything about aerated concrete blocks?
@@hkitm not slot but I know is regular concrete with small bubbles in the mixture to make it lighter
I mean not a lot I have big fingers sorry
@@JoseAlvarado72 I helped build such a home near Beckley, West Virginia. It was the design of craftsmen from Germany. It was a beautiful mansion, stuccoed inside and out, copper roof, and solid copper gutters and downspouts!
Why insulation tho?
Some areas of the country are to cold but I will not use it if it was my home
One day, when the doctors fix me I want one but does anyone know the cost? I need to know if it’ll fit into my plans. Thank you for the video even though it’s first time I saw it because it was just now recommended to me
What as gentle and sofisticated way to fool the people lol!
As with every thing else this house was built with the same consumables as everything else. Or did you eat the forms .
Alot of concrete guys reuse there forms so maybe the same here. Other wise its hundreds of dollers of wood on top of the concrete cost.
Sylvia cook, you are an angel. 🙏🏻❤️☀️. Beautiful house.
Rammed earth.....and cement, it is highly improbable that they only use rammed earth.
You can use lime when earth with higher clay content is available, but you are right, for sandy or silt earth they mix 5-7% of cement into mixture.
Only a thin outer layer is made from stone, the rest of it is made from earth.
@@yarpenzirgin1826 Lime takes C02 to create make no mistake about it. yes it takes up C02 after it reacts with water but it doesn't take up the c02 that it took to fire the limestone
@@derekcraig3617 much less than cement manufacturing process. It is not CO2 neutral, but "less bad".
@@yarpenzirgin1826 Agreed. But many in the 'green' building sector will bill it as carbon neutral. Which is totally greenwashing
Visit Algeria if you want to learn about this technique.
The valley of mzab ( Ghardaia, and five other cities), plus the city of old Algiers ( kasbah), still standing and occupied after five centuries.
Why are the governments not funding this ? looks so beautiful and saves our planet
We've been building homes like this for thousands of years. It is not a new concept.
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Looks Great. what sort of foundations are required for this building method?
a normal concrete foundation and concrete base with rebar will do
usualy the structure engenier will explain the best shoise
@Darren Munsell thanks! Concrete is always the go to but would be very Interested to see rammed earth foundations to keep the environmental credentials. Could see water being an issue but plastic lining for this sounds like a good solution!