I Lit Styrocrete on Fire… THIS Result Amazed Me!!
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Just donated look forward to seeing more testing videos in future
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@@AvrumgoldThe styrofoam particles carry none of the load in the first place. They are only there to make small voids in the concrete mixture.
A more pressing risk is that, if the wall is raised to a very high temperature, the styrofoam material itself pyrolyzes into hydrogen (or methane, propane, or butane) and carbon, which would generate high pressure inside the matrix. Concrete mixtures consistently fail under tension, so this could be a problem. But to be fair, this requires temperatures above 1000°F. Normal concrete spalls and self-disassembles at these temperatures, so it may fare no worse than construction spec concrete, in the end.
Excellent work! I am very interested in this now, and have a new homestead construction that I might consider this for.
One criticism, though. The way that you exposed the test subjects to heat was much too transitory to reflect true fire conditions. Dont get me wrong, this is a great and necessary first test, to be sure. But in a real house fire, it's not just a transitory flame that sets things in motion, it's a full pot of grease that burns hot for 30 minutes, or a copper conductor that gets so hot that it melts. Or a room full of boxes with paper documents in them. In a real world situation, a house doesnt burn down until a massive amount of heat builds up first. It's TRUE that a single strike of a lighter can burn a house down, but for the first 10 minutes of that fire initiation, a single cup of water can put it out. Hence, why fire retardants work in the first place - a little resistance early on yields a radically different outcome. This is why your tests are extremely useful, instructive, and valuable, but it is also why more extensive testing should be done. Companies or governments should pick up your work and take it to the complete finish line.
Oh, and the fire of the future will be the electric car batteries burning in the garage. Energy is energy, so the heat release will be comparable to 20 gallons of gasoline burning for an hour in a concentrated space. Almost nothing survives that, but everything is comparable as to resiliency in such conditions. Car batteries, by definition, carry their own oxidizer, so in some ways, they act more like rocket fuel than plain old gasoline, which is limited by how much air can get to it. A car battery can instantly get to many thousands of degrees, far hotter than gasoline or natural gas.
Whole different topic - I'd love to see how this mix would fare in Roman concrete mixtures.
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Wow Stephen!! I can not thank you enough for sharing all your hard work and knowledge!! This is just what I needed to now for the tiny house I’m building right now. Perfect timing!! I’m so thankful for all you have shared. Thank you so much 😊
Schneider, you are the exact person I am hoping to help with this. DIYer's wanting to build their own home. Thanks for the feedback.
Thank you for this video! My architect step-son thinks I am nuts for even looking at your information. I think this video will get him to look at your methods a little closer. He wants to find a way to help people on the reservation (where he currently lives) have better homes.
As Stephen noted in his videos and his reply to your comment, this material has been used throughout the world as well as in the US for decades. Rastra has been making cement + eps ICF blocks since the '70's, and Bautex produces a variation as well, both available in the US. I'm sure there are other manufacturers here in the states as well, but those two I know off the top of my head. This material is best as insulation, and though it does have some structural strength, it should not be relied on alone to support heavy loads or high stress. Personally, though I wouldn't build my house from just this(I live in hurricane alley, guaranteed 2-3 tropical storms/hurricanes per year), I'd trust it just fine for outbuildings or insulation. No building material or technique is ideal in all circumstances. The 'best' option for a given project depends on goals, local climate and weather patterns, locally available materials, local laws and codes, neighbors, site specifics, available labor, aesthetic considerations, budget, and I could go on all day. Good luck with your son and hope you both can get your projects done and help some people.
Refer him to the comment by Mendo Home Power for real world test in the CA Camp fire
Shredded styrofoam is more fire resistant than I would have thought! Thanks for sharing! I still wonder what would happen if you kept the torch in one place instead of moving it around. We are excited to share the results of our aircrete test samples soon, we are getting some surprising results! 👍🙂
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That truly is amazing, Stephen! Thanks so much for sharing! I made a shredder like you suggested...with a flower pot! I have been so inspired again and am making my own samples. Tiny arch home...here I come! Thanks for sharing!
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Stephen this is a game changer! Please continue to make more videos. I'm learning a lot about what Aircrete can do. Much appreciated.
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This is an incredible method of building. I talked to my city ordinance office, and they are okay with this method of building providing there is a wood or steel frame to hold the materials. I will buy the online class tomorrow after I get home from work. This will go a long way toward remodeling my 120-year-old house. Also, thanks for talking to me by email.
You're welcome! Glad it got approved!
Seeing what you are doing gave me the idea of using this stuff to insulate a polebuilding home with it.
You have the sheet metal on the outside and use a slip form on the inside of the building to form the walls. Coming up with a 10 to 12 inch thick insulated wall would be easy and cheap.
Sounds doable.
@@AbundanceBuild we are looking at property in northern Nevada that is offgrid so making things as thermally efficient as we can is a must to keep power usage down. The walls are more likely to be 9 inches thick.
Young Mister Rogers vibes. Great teacher here. Wholesome. Love it. I might build some auxiliary structures out of this stuff in the future because of your videos. I didn't think of it before. I was thinking in terms of 2x4s and steel siding... I wasn't even planning on having these structures be insulated... that's just a bonus of your system. I wonder if building a chicken coop from this would be sensible...
Haha yes chicken coop video coming soon!
should try it using magnesium phosphate cement much stronger than portland
Correct but more expensive and difficult to source. Portland is everywhere
@AbundanceBuild the styrofoam is absorbing like 90% of the costs anyways
@@prototype9000 yea go for it! For us we are trying to help people with low incomes in places without easy access to rare materials
@AbundanceBuild geopolymers are another possibility as well been researching how to polymerizing what we have laying below our feet
@@prototype9000 good idea!
Looks great. Like here in Colorado where wild fire is a real issue. Awhile back we had a fire about 10 miles South of where I live take out several neighborhoods for about 1200 houses in one afternoon. Literally the houses burned like a forest with the fire burning the houses coming in as a wind driven grass fire. Houses built with your syroctete look like they would not have supported such a fire. This looks like a very good material to use in most construction around here. Maybe should be used as allot of the burned out home owners can't afford to rebuild due to high cost of construction and low insurance pay outs.
Definitely! It is very fire resistant! It is crazy the materials people are forced to use ignite so quickly
Thank you for investing all the time and resources on this great cause.
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Awesome.
It feels like a new era in building materials, and is hope of for people looking at spending their lives in mortgage payments.
Thank you.
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You are amazing. Thank you for your efforts to educate us all. I am very Grateful !!! Will be using this for sure.
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Excellent styrofoam aircrete project 👍
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Enjoy your efforts in sharing knowledge. Thanks!!
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Already subscribed. My personal plan in the gothic arch 12"-15" thick walls, but made circular to build a triple dome home.
Hey stephen have you hit it with a pressure wahser? id like to know how it does under pressure
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I've tried it 2 ways. The first is using the little spheres styrofoan is made of - Results too brittle. The second is making the particles much finer - like the fineness of perlite ( The original aircrete additive). I get better results making the styrofoam particles smaller.
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Styrocrete is popular here in Siberia.
But add polypropylene fiber to your mix. And another thing, we call it wooden soapy resin, or smth like that, in russian Смола древесная омыленная.
Good luck!
So that's pretty interesting.
I guess the fibre adds more stability to the styrocrete. But what exactly is this "wooden soapy resin" ? Is it like wood fibres in water and with more additives?
Cheers mate.
@@radicalphil1871 Maybe "saponified wood resin" will be more clear?
It`s a kind of adhesive between styrofoam and cement, makes the mix more liquid without adding more water, traps some tiny bubbles of air in the mix.
Good luck!
Can you provide a mix, ratio recipe for that?
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Brilliant!
So informative, thank you 💛
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God Bless you infinitely Sir for your amazing ideas and contributions. I pray you are Blessed and protected always. I'm a fem w no experience but would love to learn step by step how to build a 1000 sqft home. I think that could still be a comfortable size.
What I would do different is build the home in an 8ft to 10ft high slab that you can instantly do an all around porch w stairs on front n back and on one side of it. A ramp into a closed in garage large enough for a workshop. Look forward to yourwell detailed tutorials. Thank you so much.💓💛💓
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Great idea, and inspiring experience, thank you so much
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Great videos Stephen! I am finding myself looking forward to each new episode with great anticipation! Unfortunately, I will never be allowed to build what I want to with this in Scotland but I think that it would be great for a shed and perhaps even garden furniture depending on the strength. I am imagining a rocket stove heated bench using your Styrofoamcrete to support the bench top and ducting the hot flue gases which would warm the bench top.
Nothing says you can't be eccentric and live in your garden shed. 😉
@@PatrickKQ4HBD LOL
Actually, there are laws in Scotland that specifically address that...
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Nice work, very impressive
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What a comprehensive test. What a great building material! Hope the abundacoat is as good as the stucco coat in your test
Thank you! Yes it performs just as well!
I am very impressed with your channel. Thank you for the videos and ideas.
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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Wow, amazing! Thanks for doing the work to figure it out.
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I hope you’ve applied for a patent on this process. Q: can it be blown through a large hose like shotcrete? It’s amazing!
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Wow! Surprising results. Really good idea to do a control comparison with the foam insulation that currently goes up in modern homes. Modern homes are real tinder boxes though so probably not a great benchmark! Sadly that's what we live in today. The concern I have with non-natural materials is what do we do at end of the life of the product? If we incorporate toxic materials into our built environment we are swallowing a poisoned pill as these chemicals are sure to leach into our environment. Alas the damage is already done as synthetics are already used everywhere in construction so I guess it's best to play the hand we have. Keep up the good work!
Totally agree! Our buildings will last an extremely long time but if it needs to be torn down, the building can be ground down and reused as filler in the next building's walls. So the end of life is also better than traditional buildings
Phenomenally informative video!! You inspired me to insulate an old house with eps/borate - what is that awesome blower?! I can tell you that the borax/boric-acid solution amazingly repels almost everything that crawls. Cannot understand the surprising fire resistance from just shredding eps (sure that was not a treated source - the eps panel makers are supposed to treat everything they make). Thank you!
(added note: The treated eps as loose fill solves a big problem with cellulose, where an old uninsulated house has rotted-out building paper, any insulation will get wet. Cellulose will really never dry out, but eps will!)
Thanks SpaceCrete, the blower is an old electric Black N Decker leaf blower/vacuum. Works great and it's powerful.
Could you use lime instead of cement?
@@ToshiSanglir-qx3cn It's possible but lime is much weaker so you would be sacrificing the structural element of our mix.
Looks like a good idea. Foam waterglass for the aircrete component and I'll bet your fire resistance increases tremendously.
Good idea!
I'd love to see your mix used on a metal frame building, such as the garage frame you're sitting in during the last scene. Turn it upside down and fill the roof area with styrocrete about 4-6 inches thick. Once set, roll the structure on one side (or stand it up) and make the walls. Good, solid, metal-framed & insulated building!
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Just realized that you have never posted a video on how your shredded styrofoam aircrete is made. Could you please make video of that?
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Keep the videos coming! So informative sir!! Please discuss costs more. How much to build walls, houses, etc?
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We have been looking for a product to expand our production materials to build our tiny homes...very, very interesting...Thanks Stephen...Wow!
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Hi. I just discovered your channel and binge watching it.
An idea for fixing stuff to your walls.
Drill a hole, inject expansive PU foam, push in the plastic sleeve. Wait for the foam to cure and put your screw in.
Thanks for the tip!
Thank you
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Compulsive viewing, thanks very much. great to have all the quantities listed. I intend to have a go at an OSB sip panel in the not to distant future. The 2 questions I had were regarding fire safety and how well the mix bonds to the OSB, You have gone a long way to making me feel confident regarding fire safety, I just need to do some testing on the bonding issue. Thanks again
Chris
CB, when I forgot to oil my mold I about never got it broken free and if I waited a few more days I would have had to tear the wall up to break it free. It sticks well.
@@AbundanceBuild Thanks again for taking the time to reply, I will let you know when I have had a go and show you the results.
Chris
This experiment is remarkable. Thank you so much for this effort. My hope to fulfill a four decade long dream of a monolithic dome!
You can do it!
Pretty cool. What about using this for concrete countertops? Especially for outdoor bbq patio countertops….. I’m sure the possibilities are endless.
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Hey Steve,
It’s been a slow processhere in Ky with the heat Index hovering around 115 degrees.
But, with working in the middle of the night, I’m making some progress,
Started a little different idea on the roof.
Just hoping it will workout
You can do it!
Great Videos!!!!! I am interested in building Arched Huts so that we can get the homeless off of the streets. If you look at what Canastoda Huts are doing to provide the same functionality. They end up costing around $2000+ per hut. My thoughts are making a series of forms up to cast the end wall/door wall/ and several "rings"; (all having several cut off plastic conduits, such that all the pieces would be tied together via tie bolts.). I think this structure would be under $300 in materials, and be fireproof!!! Great Work!!!
Great idea and a wonderful use for this. Please share your ideas as you design this.
Hahaha i was just posing this question to my husband. So glad you made this video!!
Haha you're welcome! 😁
@@AbundanceBuild It was also nothing I expected I thought that would flame like crazy.
@@AndreaGrinoldsSoap Same! We were pleasantly surprised by the results!
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Mr. Williams, I wonder if you have ever considered adding hemp to the mix, or using hempcrete as a finish. it is carbon negative, and highly fire resistant.
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I’d be very interested in a short/long term buoyancy test, wondering if it would be a candidate to use in some sort of floatation application.
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Great videos! Thanks so much for making them!
A couple thoughts- i wonder how the cost comparison of aircrete vs styrofoam aircrete balances out when you factor in time. I wonder how much time the extra steps to acquire and process the styrofoam, and packing in the forms takes. Time = money. But maybe the time is negligibe. You'd know better than most of us!
It would also be interesting to see how the structural properties of the styrofoam aircrete degrade from fire compared to aircrete.
With a 9 foot wall you would have to do between 3 and 9 separate pours and cures. And make the wall twice as thick to get the same R value...
I think it was in the previous video about the Styrofoam shredder he built. After the time and modest cost of making the shredder he estimated around 20 minutes per 35 gallon bag to gather and shred the Styrofoam. This is offset by the cost for the greater volume of concrete in regular aircrete, plus there is longer drying/curing time required for regular aircrete of same thickness plus reduced R value.
Thanks for sharing!
SPOT ON, STEVE
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I'm very inspired and excited about your research and results. Please continue with this work.
On it!
Love this content! Such an interesting building material. Keep it coming! :)
Thank you! Will do!
Can you test the structural changes in a loaded wall with a fire at the bottom of the wall.... Will the melting styrofoam affect the integrity of the wall? And at what temperature does it begin to degrade.
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is you cast panels with hardfacing, stand them up, then pour between them, you can eliminate some work
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What is your stucco mix? It just looks like mortar or a layer of cement? Can you do a video on your mixes for your stucco and how you layer the aircrete? Did you build your own aircrete gun? I love your videos hope I see more great content like this!
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Very insightful video, please continue vlogging so a lot of people will learn from your experience.
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Could also test as vertical hanging as is in the wall, not just horizontal. Vertical burning usually spreads faster like burning grass uphill. It heats ahead of itself so it burns / propagates faster. Good stuff
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Holy smokes (or rather lack of)!!! I cannot believe that shredded styrofoam does not readily burn, readily emit flames and does not emit ANY black smoke! These results are not something I would not have guessed in a million years. This channel is highly enlightening!
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@@AbundanceBuild thank you, I look forward to watching your future content.
Thanks from Algeria
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Awesome information. Happy New Year .
Thank you! You too
Great ingenuity and research. Subscribed.
Thank you! Huge discoveries coming soon!
Big thankyou for this.
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Thanks for the thorough testing and sharing it. I would have enjoyed seeing a cross section of the last test to see the damage to the internals if any. Subd
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I just discovered the channel, and I must admit I'm intrigued. I'm looking into the possibility of constructing a small home and was wondering if this would work as pre-formed panels that were put into place at the construction site? What about adding a wire mesh core? Would they be durable enough to support a stone or brick veneer? Do they take compression well enough to support a roof with a snow load or do they require additional support? Fascinating stuff and I look forward to more!
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I'm going to make some of this stuff! Just gotta figgure out if it is better to rent a mixer like that or buy one used.
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This is very interesting to compare to hemp-crete.
Hemp is expensive and takes too long to cure
Brilliant
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Thank you for the good job and research!
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Wow how lucky that you happened upon the exact solution to my problems! I can't believe this is the only video of yours I missed which happened to be the most relevant to the issues plauging my household and constantly a problem I've been wracking my brain over what am I going to do
I came home with my SUV filled to the brim by two beautiful people who get coolers for insulin and we have an arrangement so I'll get what I need soon to save my household.
Per your advice, after the knob and tube is clear, would it be more beneficial to use just shredded and treated styrofoam or using the styrocrete in between the walls???
Also I want to make a shower area japanese style and I was hoping I could use waterproofed styrocrete for the sealed space with some stone carving and maybe a tree since I got raw hardwood flooring in a weirdly spaced bathroom that would be perfect to just separate off a watertight shower area where you can easily wash an ornery 1 year old, hydrophobic dog, or confused chickens with complete ease and just a nice are to keep plants and a family style shower and tub area. Would I be able to cover it with something better suited to water proofing so I could go all out for my dream shower? I'm also super into concrete rock features like the ones they make in fancy pools with caves and amusement parks. Here is a great video (much smaller shower) that really made me eager to get a shower area like that....ruclips.net/video/F-VGM9TWYaA/видео.html
I'll just first have to assess the damage from the burst pipe. I mentioned briefly the entrance and second bathroom seems to be floating and of course no pipe insulation or anything like that so hopefully I can find the pipe and not spend too much repairing it so I'd really be interested in a mostly enclosed styrocrete crawlspace so I never have water running though and freezing my floors. I'm hoping I can get away with a lot of sliding storage with weather sealed doors for outside tools.
Also my coop light fell over and we caught it smoldering completely filled with smoke so I wrecked my back in adrenaline fueled snow shoveling into the hole since the coop is raised so I was worried about the undercurrent recatching. I'm definitely going to use the aircreaye in the open coop walls and I may lower the floor to ground level and do styrocrete floor and insulation covering the barely anything besides vynl siding walls. I always knew I wanted concrete under the sand floor so the poop and all that dries out better and stuff
My life kinda seems like a series of unfortunate events but then I find people like you who motivate me to always make it work!!!
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great video thanks. specially good news that fex packaging waste EPS can also be reused and upcycled this way instead of just sending it to be burnt. wondering if there was an alternative for the portland cement though... have you or anyone else tried hydraulic lime or even clay as binder..?
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How do you get to use these new materials with the USA building codes…? Even when they are stronger and fireproof, it seems that approvals will be hard to get…even for sheds in some areas.
This seems quite superior and with lower labor intensity than earth bags as a building material, although earth bags will hold up against high winds and flooding.
Thank you for the interesting videos…
You're welcome! These buildings hold up great! Codes do vary widely but we are working towards getting approvals
Doing more to save the world than all the jetting eco warriors at Glasgow.
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Do you know if using saline sea/ocean water is viable for mixing with the foam concentrate or does this require some specific purified water?
I guess you'd have to look at its pH and go from there... its a good question, id be curious to see if this could be a viable source. Also, knowing the amount of salinity might be useful as well, as this affects the density of the solution... additionally, depending on the concentration of the salinity, i would think this in turn affects the solutions solubility, which then might affect how well additional additives like stabilizers, foam, etc incorporate into the solution. just my thoughts...
Go for it!
I once helped a friend build wall panels from sawdust/cement mixture. It seemed to work well. Would it be possible, in a remote setting, to use cement/Styrofoam mix without the bubbles? What about compressing this mixture in a simple ram? Thanks for your comments.
Yes new recipe videos without foam coming soon!
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could you make a stucco covered brick (like at the end) and then throw it into a campfire and just see what happens with sustained heat and flame?
Sure! We could do that as part of an updated fire test video soon
Would a concrete form vibratory work instead of a pvc and wood block packer to settle the mix in tge wall form?
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Moral of the story is unless the sun is about to go red the walls around the little pigs ain’t gonna give. Thanx for vids. Gotta couple questions though . Any way you give me holler thanx
Thanks!
Nice work! Good video. I'm very interested in this technology. I dreamed of opening my own block maker\home designer biz.
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Yo lo mezclo con cal y cenizas...y mejora aún mas
¡Buen trabajo!
Could you post a load test to see the strength compared to wood
Also could you add fiber glass to it
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Absolutely!
I think your channel cold grow with just a bit of interaction with comments. Thank you for posting the videos!
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I'd like to see a block of styroaircrete put into a fire pit. The idea would be to simulate a worst case scenario wild fire.
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Thank You - Stephen ! Another wonderful Video ... MORE ... MORE... MORE - Please ! And thanks for the link to Dr Energy. I suspect you are in Tenn ( ? ) ... I'm building a Passive Solar house in NKu ( Cincinnati Area ). Going to use 'Dry Stack' 12in Block for Int/Ext Walls - for Thermal Mass. I've been struggling with Ext Foam Insulation for my ( Ext & Perimeter ) Insulation ( 12 in ReClaimed ) Styrofoam ... because of the Flammability/Melting. This has me thinking about 'Forming Up' your stuff - instead of 'glueing' plain ( un treated ) Foam Panels .... Your thoughts ? Thank again. papawbil
Thanks Bill. Forming up and pouring this around the exterior of your block concrete walls will work very well. Very easy to stucco over it to finish it out. Portland cement makes it fire resistant.
Possible cheap additions to the styrocrete mix might include lime, ash or clay. I worked for a mfg of concrete bag mix and all these things get added. Baking soda too?
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This was my top question after the first video I saw from you
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Wow that's really interesting I guess the heat output is just too low to radiantly heat the nearby particles to their ignition point but just enough to conductivity heat the rest of the burning particle. If you had a large volume where the heat of combustion wasn't able to escape I think you might get a sustained fire but that's true of basically anything.
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Can you run this mix through a pump
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Hi. I am so intriguid by this alternative building material. I was wondering, instead or together with styroform could be added some shredded regular plastic.?
Also, instead of fiber mesh and cement coat, could this be done instead with fiberglass mat and resin ? Would it catch and bond together?
Shredding regular plastic in thin strips may be beneficial to add some strength but the Styrofoam is important for its insulation value. I don't know about resin, we have never tried that because of the higher cost - try it and let us know how it goes! :) Subscribe for updates coming soon!
Have you tested the material's strength?
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Great info, can u do strength demo next. Looks like u built ur shop a second level on top, must be good in compression
Hi Josh, that is coming but next video will be on insulation value.
It'd be extremely interesting if someone built two 8x8 shed's side by side out of lumber, wind barrier, fibreglass batts, poly vapour barrier, plywood, and light gauge steel framing and aircrete.
Then light them both up and see which burns down completely in about an hour.
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Mr. Williams what's your cost for equipment and materials to just build the walls? I have a build for my milk house and kitchen for my goat dairy and curious.
Thank you for your time.
Your dairy goats cook?
Your dairy goats cook?
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Hi Stephen
We were thinking of building a 9m 2 storey earth bag home, with the lower storey being underground. Do you think it would be possible to use aircrete instead? And make the moulds for this.
So the actual wall would be 17 foot tall. 8 foot being underground. I was thinking instead of tampering the aircrete down, we would use a concrete vibrator that we could lower down to the base and pull up during the fill.
Thoughts? Thanks
When you're dealing with underground walls the tension forces of the ground against the basement walls is fairly significant, and cement/aircrete has low tension strength. I'd be extremely careful.
@@dustinabc dont do it you mean
Consult a structural engineer first. Good luck! New builds coming soon!
Is it heat proof ?
I would think that this video refers to 3.6 r per inch of thickness if that is what you are asking. The flame tests sure sold me on seeing the benefit of using this technique.
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I have shredded EPS available. Let me know if I can be of assistance with any upcoming projects.
Excellent!
Question Stephen, I'm building a house in the caribbean, where is always hot and humid, will filling the 8 inch concrete block holes with styrofoam-aircrete give me enough insulation?? Houses there are typically all concrete even interior walls and roof. I want to insulate it as much as possible for the cost of course. Thank you in advance and thank you for all the info you provide here.
Should be very effective in that application! Good luck! New builds coming soon!
Would be nice if you had cut a cross section of the block at 13:35. Just to see what happens under the render.
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What would happen if a block were put in an oven or kiln?
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WHAT NAME BRAND OF YOUR LEAVE BLOWER THAT SUCKED UP THE FOAM AND BLEW IT WHO DO YOU BUY YOUR DREXEL FOAM FROM AND WHAT TYPE OR NAME BRAND
I'm pretty sure that's a Toro blower/lawn vac.
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