Air Crete Machine for Under $30 (DIY)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Darwin has designed a machine that makes the foam for air crete, the Foam Mate. The ready made machine on the market costs $500. By building it yourself you understand the way it works and can make your own improvements on it. We have the plans on our etsy store and anyone can do it with the right parts and correct measurements. Most of the parts are listed below, some parts could only be bought in bulk so I did not put the link.
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Your design has possibly opened the door for thousands and thousands of people who could not otherwise afford it, to create their own structures. You sir, are a saint and a gentleman. Those crying out for "patent this", and "money that" simply don't understand what this life is really all about. I can see by your interactions with your family and your sharing nature, that you do. Kudos.
~~ _PEACE_
believe it hello cud any one tell me where to buy foaming agent for concrete.. i would like to build my house cheaper i dont have the money to make a house meaning i have lots of debt...loans...
Nice info brother....
God Bless you sir....
Check out siporex, it is very similar.
Agreed. Respect to you my friend.
I'm a mom of 3 and this gives me hope! Thank you
My father, Jack DeHaven Cohen was building houses using "aireated" concrete here in North Little Rock, AR in the late 1940's, early 1950's. One of his houses is still in its original state in a neighborhood called Park Hill. Unfortunately, he was called to duty in the Korean War and didn't get to continue his experimental business. I have documentation and newspaper articles about it. I'm very impressed with your device. Thanks for putting this "out there." I will check out your etsy listing! C. Cohen
I'd love to see that documentation. Have you ever considered posting it on RUclips or elsewhere online? If you've already done this, please post a link. Thanks.
Paul N that's a great idea! The house is just a few blocks away from where I live. I could at least get some exterior footage...maybe even ask the current owner to let me in!
The flat roof house had a "yard" on top, partly for the novelty of it, but also to show the durability and strength of the structure. It was beautifully landscaped, and I have a photo of my father sitting at a patio table talking on the phone! At some point, the yard was "removed" by nervous owners, but it never caused any damage and upon removing it, they discovered the house and roof to be perfectly sound. I've heard that they considered putting the lawn back, but they were expecting a child, and decided it would be too dangerous!
When you consider all of the innovative ways that humans have created dwellings over the centuries, it's funny to think how resistant people are to anything new or different.
rats arsed, Try building an igloo in Arkansas and I will be impressed. Perhaps my Father built the house in an appropriate environment for a reason. Straw bale houses are very popular in arid climates like New Mexico, but certainly not a wise choice for tropical locales. My interest is discovering alternative forms of construction, not impressing RUclips viewers.
We would love to see it.
Any updates
Air rated concrete has been on the market for many years. Invented in Europe and used widely in construction. China has over sixteen hundred factories that make it and ship all over the world. There are only four factories in the US. The reason it not allowed in North America is that it would destroy the drywall and wood industry. You have done an excellent job explaining this.
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Where are the 4 factory's at?
factories
AAC autoclaved aerated concrete blocks have been used since the 1940 in some countries is called BCA
'''''''' There are only four factories in the US. , The reason it not allowed in North America '''' the U.S. is NORTH AMERICA. so how can there be 4 in the U.S.
when there not allowed in the ( U.S. = North America )
redo you're statement plz, it is confusing . . . misleading
...love how your wife is interested, helps out, & even gives design ideas...and that your boy is also included!!! ...and then come the cat & chickens, too - a great family & greatly informative video - Thanks!
great family!
You have the best helpers in the world❤
For all you asking questions
This has been out for decades
In Europe
They make panels to put up bldgs
They use it to level out the floor
They put in roofs
A dome building group came up with the green dragon.
They determined that a protein based soap like the organic 7th heaven makes a good foaming agent. They sell commercial foaming agents too.
Honey do carpenter came up with a diy way go do it .
Which I thank you
Correct. Europe doesn't have access to wood the way North America does, so they had to adapt to that shortage
I love that your all worked on it together. I remember helping my dad on projects.. he's now gone a long time and I'm in to the golden years... I've never forgotten spending that time together... Oh and yeah.. i'll make one of these cool things for sure!!!
I’ve seen aircrete in “not” America and the material looks very versatile. Your diy looks important to getting u.s. involved in real time. Thanks!
Been so busy lately trying to get my house work done . Come in at nights to watch some youtube before I sleep . & I still find your shows are the best ever . Dont care if Ive watched them a dozen times or not . Still fun & informative . Love you all & continue to hope you keep up the great work you do . Ill eventually catch up on all the newer shows youve out out on Saturdays
I bet that would make a superb roof material. insulating value while being resistant to the elements and keeping a cap on interior heat from escaping.
I think you are on to something.
Lakario Davis - Not sure where you´re located, but in Europe "light concrete" has been used as insulation for a long time.
Notice that by "light" I mean mixed with Leca, Styrofoam beads, air...Think anything light in weight with great volume and lots of air. ;-)
My house, which is some 40 years old, has a "Leca" slab up to the attic.
Cheers
Mate ,I did concrete work for 20 odd years and thought of mixing bean bag balls etc ,but that is a bloody great thing and so simple ,I must have a play with some mud lol
Mark Manwaring I know a guy that said he invented the idea of concrete mixed with foam beads but I guess someone else patented the idea before him lol. He built walls with it and man did it insulate well.
Thats also a great idea. Any way to trap bubbles of nothing, lets use Air more, its still free!, finding and exploring any way to add bulk/strength and insulation value and extend /stretch our resources to full capability is inspiring/ necessary and progressive!
I added styrene micro spheres with polymer and created an amazing product.
China creates air concrete with spheres now in many forms. Incredible large building panels and such.
I think folks use perlite to do just what you described.
No plastic beads is the clever part about it. Imagine pumping that stuff out to make a slab. Might save some backs.
It's so loveable having the kids in the videos. Would be wonderful if everyone loved their family that much. Shalom
Thank you for this contribution which will help many people, and thank you also for the beautiful way you interact with your wife and son. This is love at work!
Believe it says it perfectly! Wonderful Stuff :) One amazing thing I love about this process and your presentation of it, is you are so happy to make mistakes, go back to the drawing board / stand on the brick, let it break, it's a lovely demonstration of process and progress undeterred by the ubiquitous and insidious culture of fail... You inspire me. Thanks you sincerely.
Thank you for your service in helping the world be a better place, Hero's walk among us, you are one of them ....and a great D A D
This guy looks very happy, I will be too once I finish this build. Thank you for you time making this video kind sir. I think I figured out why you're so happy, you have the cutest kid and and a sharp wife not to mention your creation WORKS great. That's the good life 🙈🙉🙊.
Always know sharing such incredible knowledge is priceless. You and your family have my absolute best wishes. As a handy man diy'er I think your creation is amazing and will help me improve my home greatly.
I did some research on this and if you use the 7th Generation dish soap the soap/ froth is much more stable and you get better results.
This is the same stuff used for INSULATION in walls!! My next house I build will be light gauge steel studs with AIR-CRETE INSULATION. Having a contractor install it would be more expensive than creating my own process and having my own crew do it. Already figured it would be 60% or more doing it ourselves. The beautiful thing about it is that it can increase structural rigidity while also reducing exterior sound and great insulator with MAXIUM fire protection AND no rot or mold or insect infestation! Between LG steel and Air-crete, the structure is as well built as I could think to engineer a residential home. The exterior sheathing will be a cementitious panel product as well. Interior sheathing would include non-papered drywall and/or wood panels (love wood for its appearance, time to stop cutting forests for ANTI-"green" energy windmill access roads and transmission lines and use it for its BEAUTY!!)
I built a 2000 square foot house in Thailand from foam concrete bricks. it is easy to cool and is pretty quiet
Frank , if you are referring to Q-con blocks ,Those are not aircrete , those are light weight flyash blocks Those are what I used to build my house in khon kaen with they are great also built my shop out of them
It's this type of DIY ingenuity that makes America such a great place to be part of.
I'm curious: If you were to add carbon powder to your bubble mix initially before mixing with concrete if that would greater strengthen your bond. If you made a vacuum tent for your aircrete parts and pressurized them. Hypothetically, it would compress and stack the foam molecules tighter, and they would be reinforced with spherical carbon structures internally.
Beyond Grateful!!! I need to re-plaster my non-insulated outside wall and you have possibly given me a way to insulate my brick/block walls f/b lime plastering. I'm pretty exited. Thanks brother
Wow I appreciate your willingness to share your talents for the benefit of mankind and I agree with you that this will revolutionize the Construction world
John Gundaker idk why we aren't using this word wide. Would save a lot of trees
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I was in the construction field for only a year. But Im 23, and still am fascinated with things like this. Nice video!
Great machine. I think it is very possible to fill gaps, cracks and holes with air crete. Place plastic foil over the cavity, make a hole in the plastic and fill up the cavity trough the hole.
I love your affection and encouragement of your children.
You can also add fiberglass just like regular concrete to give it some additional strength. Rebar and wire work as well.
Microrebar is also a new option.
Nicely done, and kudos to the wife for her thoughtful contributions and encouragement! Bravo!
You just gave me an idea about kilns and floating docks and boats and floating bullet proof vests and much more. Thanks.
I would do a very long test on aircrete as a floating dock. It might eventually fill up with water and sink
The best part of your video is all the extra Helping Hands. You got to love having the family be a part of it
man I loved this video and and even as a DIY guy I would get your plans just because you did a great job showcasing the build, product and are helping folks understand more about building materials like this kind and that is always more power in peoples hands when they are given the knowledge. I love that you added the concepts to help folks understand the uses and whats such a big deal about concretes and their different make ups and where the industry is trying to go. Something that I was thinking about when you were mentioning the insulative value of this made product with your foam tool got me so stoked about it with rocket stoves or heaters and then you mentioned it right when I was pondering what tests you have found!!! So thank you for mentioning that and now I know that I can write you more about this topic and know about another gentlemen looking for easier to make high heat materials for all the many ways to use rocket power (obviously not rocket power but easier to write). I would love to hear about other readily available materials that we can help make rocket stove parts that can withstand 3 to 4k degrees and not prematurely degrade. So I would love to here from you about your journey in searching that out as it seems that you are quite more knowledgeable with the cement world and I have stuck to the earthen clay stuff, since I realize that portland cement materials just aren't base material substances that can take the heat abuse over time even if we aerate it. SO PLEASE make a video if you haven't about your progressions towards an easier way to making refractory masonry material for rocket builds since I deal with it a lot. Your video of this mix did inspire me to think about making water glass like many do and adding that to the mix to be a higher temp stabilizer, I have made attempts on small scale rocket burners using cement with perlite and then doing the same mix with water glass (sodium silicate) being easy to make and can handle at least a couple thousand degrees. So I'll stop now and try to make contact with you. But last note. It also was way cool to see you run your channel with your entire family involved and you showed openly about being a very intentional kind loving dad and husband, and I love that!! So kudos man!! keep it up. We can all tell when a man loves and puts intentionality into the family relationships, and you let it be seen for your followers. Great example!!
Its awesome to see you include your family in your experiments! It looks like alot of fun!
You’re a good man
Your Son is awesome as is your simple design. Thank you for sharing
Time will fly now. My son will be 21 soon, he was born yesterday, smh
He is on the Spectrum.
Savor every minute of Fatherhood brother.
Keep teaching him , and while you’re at it, take us along for the ride.
Thanks
Such a cute family! The future of our world will be promising with more families like this! 👍
Dam neat little thing you have there, in the 90's I used what is called Hebel (Air Crete) here in Australia to make craft products try adding some PVA white glue in your soap tube just mix it up with your soapy water, should add a lot of strength. We use it over here in the mortar when laying bricks. also if you want it (Air Crete) to stretch a bit further make your brick mold long enough to hold a glass bottle (or plastic) as it takes up space and add's strength also recycles the plastic one's. NOTE.. with the PVA make sure you oil your mold well as the PVA is a glue
Thanks for sharing mate
is it good for making pavers?
Not a problem.A little bit of knowledge can go a long way these day's with the internet. PS... I'm 65 this month and just love this stuff, :-)
Hello, I'm from Brazil and I'm a subscriber of your channel. What I see are a lot more cool projects, but the thing that draws my attention to everything you do is the love for your family, this union of always being with your wife and your children this is beautiful to see, all families should understand that this is the true path to everything works, the family is abase everything in this life, may God continue to bless you and who knows, may one day we know a hug.
I truly love you. Your comment touched my heart. May God bless you as well...
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I'm an old carpenter who loves what you are doing from a construction perspective, but what you are doing with your children makes a dad, who messed up, cry. Whatever you do with your foam projects, never stop doing what you are doing with your children! Your foam may make you some money in this life, but your children will make you an eternal millionaire.
I have seen HOMES already built with this stuff!!! What the builder did was to spray it on a HOMEMADE TYPE STRUCTURE!!!!! They did use some of the smallest rebar but the rest of the building material was things like bamboo and thin wood strips. The rest, I could not understand the person . it was sooo awesome!!!!!
Such a sweet guy and family and great tutorial and great plans, you are in your dreams and all I can say is Excellent job brother! God Bless you.
Thanks for your researches and your passion to find better way to build, great job 👏
ingenious idea.being in the concrete industry 30 yrs I have seen the benifits and uses of light weight concrete.Try using a water reducer admixture for even more structural integrity.
cual seria un aditivo reductor de agua???
You are incredible amazing, thanks to share your invention, I hope you will get enough credit in benefit for your family and yourself, lovely kid you have, his laughing really bring beautiful memories to my mind, God bless you
I have a very small project that hardly justifies building the machine. Wonder if I could go to the $1 store and buy several cans of shaving cream and use that?
Hi Darwin, I just had to agree with the nice comments made here. Thanks for your generosity, and I already see that you have been blessed with a beautiful family. You are a rich man! Wish you the best. You got my like and my subscription to your channel.
Excellent, well explained, (and you have a great family). See, with synthetic micro or macro structural fibers (such as radmix) or another type of fiber suitable for construction added to the mix, and you will have a stronger brick (tensile, flex, shear). One question, the proportion of cement, sand, water and foam to prepare a standard mixture?
Such joy with little helpers.
Best part was the LOVE YOU SHOWED TO YOUR SON !!
I just made an Egg Soufflé, and it reminded me of this 'foam' for air crete. Very cool video, great happy kids! Thanks for sharing.
I have no good enough words to properly THANK YOU . I lost house and everything year ago in California duo to wild fire .and i was grossly under insured . i'm forced by life to build by myself now and aircrete is my #1 choice . there is no other idea of building which would be better or even close competitor to pour aircrete in to form or lay one by one aircrete blocks to build .
I'm 61 and aircrete is only option for me to handle the building process eliminate maintenance ,insulation and improve fire safety to max.
it will be slow building by one older man, but there is no need for so much of muscle power as other methods and heavy weight materials require .
Beside eliminating need for young muscle and stamina wee eliminate maintenance ..cement based building is not going to be eaten by termites or FIRE . no need for unhealthy expensive insulation . When is done it will last for generations .
I'm surprice and i don't get it that foamed concrete is not used everywhere instead of wood for building houses .
When i was a kid 50 years ago in Poland 99% of houses and apartments were made out of aircrete blocks . And is prbably still most popular building material today ..but i live here almost 40 years so i'm not really sure about that last statement .
Thank you again
Stan
I am in the process of going totally off grid in South Africa. Lots of folks here too that are tired of the tyranny imposed. Building a sandbag home. I must just figure out now how to be able to make a similar machine to spray the concrete / foam mixture on the outer walls, and then screen it nice and flat, about 10mm thick. Bingo! Thank you once again.
Marty,
The solution for tyranny imposed is either revolution or move to another country.
Interesting way to make cheap lightweight concrete. The one issue I see is that you have to add a lot of water to allow the foam to work into the mix. The #1 rule of concrete is: the more water, the weaker the final strength will be.
Another way I have seen lightweight concrete with better strength is to mix in vermiculite or pearlite. More expensive than soap bubbles but you can make a much stronger mix. Lots of examples of outdoor pizza ovens made this way for example.
one could add a plasticiser to the cement to decrease the water content thus allowing greater strength.
Could another liquid chemical be added to water, some fast evaporating chemicals that are not flammable ?
Fantastic video, Love that when your son helps you. It just melts my heart...
Your air crete videos are fantastic. I like all the uses I've seen so far, very ingenious. Have you ever attempted to mix in a conventional mixer?
SUPER! They do sell foam lance or Foam canon's for car washing for about $18. Likely too much water, but check out the design of that.
Good video, BUT the building material of the future would be HEMP CRETE , hope it will be in the US as it is already used a lot in the UK and Europe... high insulating properties, lite weight, versatile and more... maybe you could test that one day? Keep it up, I loved your strength test, saying" see how strong it is" then step on it and ... crack... loved that...
The beauty of aircrete is that all those hemp bits can be left to fertilize the fields.
Hart Biedro exactly. Hemp Crete does have better breathing and insulation
But it would burn Unlike this product
AAAAAWESOME for my sculptures as well! Thank you! Also make this to help keep the house from fire! Great!
Thats magic dude. Cheers for sharing the knowledge!
incredible material, and thank you for sharing your designs, it's basically just like foam inductor nozzle onboard my merchant ship for fighting oil fires
This would be great for making houses that are located in wooded area that a lot of fires!
That would be pretty good at soaping down a car, trash can or room. I've seen professional units dousing food service machinery/spaces. That's a good idea for the foaming mixer.
fighting fires also
Great, thanks for all the info and I liked the chicken and cat came looking to the project ;)
Triple thumbs up for how you love your family!
hello from northern wisconsin to MR & MRS Honey Do ,,,would you consider making a small follow up video ? showing the pounds of portland + gallons of water + pound or ounces of foam + psi ...to create a batch of your wonder crete . im moving to the philippines next fall,,planning on using aircrete.. to build a bubble / blister shaped home . its an earthquake area il feel safer with no long straight walls that would flex , building up a crack the whip situation .
hiya charles. i am in the philippines now and am planning to build an earthbag dome house here.and have just come across this aircrete and now i am thinking to do the dome roof with this product. not reaally sure if it will withstand the very heavy rain we get here
mick spurrier Probably not. It can’t stand up to much. It’s very fragile. My weed hacker tore up the blocks I built. It might hold up for a while but will need constant repairing.
Jeselle Blando It works great if you stucco over the aircrete.
Not bad. Do you think the soap might affect the structural strength of the cement. I think aircrete is often made with urethane foam. It would probably would be fine behind a layer of polyurea, anyway.
Welp, you just tore down the excuse I had to not build a home. Guess I'm building a home.
Absolutely amazing. I may just build a shed out of this stuff. With Arizona summer heat, any idea on how fast it'll cure here? Or should it be cured under shade instead of direct sunlight?
Cover it up, keep it wet and in the shade for at least a week, two if possible.
You are too wonderful for words! I like how your wife supports you and gives ideas, that is a partnership :)
I used the harbor freight sand blaster. 50$ and it has everything. All I had to make Magic wand. Used air hose quick connect to hook up wand.
Did you mix soap foam with concrete ? I wonder if it would work as insulation for a shipping container home.
go outside - It´has good insulation properties.
But your problem regarding the use on a container, is how to make it "grab" the metal walls.
All concrete, this type included, shrink after cure. As such it will get "loose" from the walls if some mechanical fixing is not done.
Welded Wire mesh, re-barb or even bolts trough the container walls can serve the purpose of letting it "stick" to the walls. For all effects think of the metal walls as a "form".
Personally I would prefer a more flexible type of insulation in that application. ;-)
Cheers
Attach lath to the shipping container, then apply the air crete like stucco. It will slide off of the metal otherwise. Alternatively, you could build a form around the container, and pour it in. I think the lath would be less work, and less expensive.
@Freddy McIntire - Hi, that´s a misconception. Concrete after cure will shrink, specially given the same conditions (heat, moist, etc). Please double check your sources.
If left to cure incorrectly (too hot, too dry, too... etc.) it will develop "uncontrolled" shrink cracks. A big no no, specially on structural applications.
Like pretty much most other materials,.it will expand with heat and contract with cold. Add moist to the equation and it gets more "confusing".
Example1: Under freezing conditions the concrete will contract, the moist will freeze and expand, two opposing forces that mostly result in cracks...
Example2: In high heat (ex. oven) applications, concrete and moist will both expand, but at different rates. Result, it cracks...
Expansion joints are added to counteract/minimize, in a controlled manner, these phenomenons. Meaning that when correctly applied, it will "move" where its intended to move.Without prejudice of the final work.
With this said, there are specially formulated cement and grout mixes with low retraction or even expansion features. Usually used on "sealing" applications (tunnels, basements, foundation work, etc.). ;-)
Cheers
@@crpth1 thanks mate. did he use air compressor machine in this video?
Got some great plans and experiments for this spring/summer. We're offgrid in semi desert!
What is your foaming agent? I make a thick foam for some theatrical effects and use dish soap and a bit of veg oil. I make mine in a trash can with a aquarium air stone.
I just ran across your video while looking at another, you did a great job of building & explaining in your video... thanks for sharing your info.
Great tool! I'm looking forward to building one and experimenting with its use. Applications could include ferrocement boat construction and ICF block.
The engineering dept at our The University of Texas at Tyler has a successful "concrete" canoe competition team entry each year along with many other university teams from all over. They have years of experience in trial and application of many different mix materials and ratios, add ins like various fiber, bamboo, rebar, wire, epoxies, nano carbons and build configurations , with all the research data on sheer, compression, deformation, weight/density to load limits, etc etc....to examine and factor into ones potential projects. Good guys running the show there too, regular guys that like to git 'er done, an help other folks git'er done too. I'm gonna try to use chicken wire and bamboo skeletons with glue and coloring (stone powders, slits, clays) add ins and resin sealers to make faux boulders, facade walls, dry creeks for run off management, cisterns and arches. Nobody to stop me but me.....
me tooo!!!!
Wonder if this would work for a forge? 🤔
Well call me, let's make these. 587 487 9243.
Jake Prosser you probably shouldn't put your phone number in a public forum. You never know what who's going to call /sign you up for whatever.
The world needs more Makers!
Why didn't you use ALL PVC? ABS andcPVC pipe and fittings need Special Glue to obtain best adhesion.
best part was the family laughing
What a great Dad!
Big WOW! You are really a genius and smart man. So that is a normal soap ? I think this can be used for roof insulation. Thanks for sharing!
Would hemp fiber make it stronger??
Thank you for sharing! A check valve on the line that connects to the supply line from the compressor could prevent the foam agent from flowing out while you fill the reservoir.
When your boy turns up, I can't stop smiling, he's just like his daddy!!
Great idea, good explanation. I would shorten front rubber hose to have it parallel to the main tube, or even join the two tubes together and arrange the small rubber hoses to make the entire assembly more compact.
Thanks a lot for the video. I really wonder, would you trust that material to build a cabin in the wood, would it last enough, or will it become brittle after just a couple of years. If its strong enough, its not a joke I will buy a piece of land somewhere and build myself a nice cabin or a bunker with this stuff.
We are planning on building a home using it, with a proper seal it will work. :) Just make sure of building codes.
Please post the video, I am pretty sure I am not alone who wanna see that. Thanks for the reply. And btw, don't forget to mention if where you live you have snow, the difference is huge on a building.
You just have to go thick enough
This is the first I’ve seen of this mix of ingredients, had know idea foam crete was made with soap foam! Learn something new ,thx! Looking forward to your videos on the “rocket heater” you mentioned. Great family great how to DIY!
I wonder how this might work as an outer plaster coating for straw bale buildings.
My first thought also!
I imagine you could find a way to spray/ almost like shotcrete the mix.. even as a glue/layer before finishing with precast panels?
Thanks bro . Do more tutorials on this kind of building . You will help a lot of people in the Developing countries (Africa especially)
Can you add fiber reinforcement?
Who would stop you? I would go with hemp by the ton personally, but im guessing just about any fiber longer than a few inches would aid in strength....
YAY! Wonderful! I will order the plans asap. Thank you for sharing this and your precious family! wish i had kids.
This has similar properties to Siporex or ACC (Autoclaved, Aerated Concrete).
Just bought your plans. Hoping I can learn to do aircrete next couple months. I want to practice on some small things but eventually build an off grid dome.
does this give you extra coverage per bag and if so how much would you estimate
Jeff Millard I just watched a video and he got twice the yield.
thank you i must have missed that part
Jeff Millard no it was a different guy doing his patio with air crete.
Thank You now I know how they are using concrete to 3D print homes. They are using aircrete mixed in the pump of the injector tube. Double screw mixer like the kind that the epoxy industry uses in the sidebyside adhesive applicators.
I like this video! Thank you good sir!
With the correct mixture, and inflatable forms, this technology could be used to rapidly inflate & back fill structures.
Faster than a 3D Concrete 'printer'.
Combining both technologies & you could rapid inflate, & print dome sheds, & then saw out windows , doors, connections, etc. as needed.
Different inflated forms could yield square or rectangular structures.
I wish I could use that on my roof, I would imagine it would lower your cooling cost.
You could reinforce it with hemp fiber in the mixte. You take hemp wool and shop it to let say 1/4'' to 1/2'' in trow it in the mixte.
Great man! Made me smile today Brother :)
Thx for the plans! I just bought your plans for the Foam Mate. I hope to build with some foamcrete very soon. We are looking at building an oven, a workshop, a cabin, and more. We really found the cost of the online foam generators to be...distasteful. Add to that the fact we would have to experiment and face discouragement while we are in our learning curve makes the high cost a risk.