Inside Ted's Custom Earthship
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2015
- OGB presents this project by Ted Elsasser, owner of www.SouthwestSustainableBuilde... . This is a very custom home. Ted took a lot of liberties building it and broke some rules along the way.But he's happy he did because he learned a lot from it.
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I can sense the sadness he has about leaving this build. It's absolutely beautiful! I think we all need to get on the program here and do better for the earth. Plus this is very cost effective and rewarding! There's nothing like creating something you use everyday. As a artist, I can truly say it's so meaningful.
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Such a bitter sweet presentation. He's obviously very proud and happy about how it's turned out, warts and all. Still, it's closing a chapter of his life so he can open a new one and you can see it on his face. So much emotion bubbling under the surface but it's also very passive and subtle. Kinda like Earthships themselves. It is what it is. Every nook and cranny of this house is twenty years of memories for him, tho it may be new and novel for the viewer.
He must move to the suburbs and get back on the grid.
This is such a beautiful home, I'm blown away! You are an awesome craftsman and I only wish I could live in a home built by you. There is such a flow in the shapes and the natural colors! Thanks for the video, Tammie Miller
thanks tammie! all cred to Ted
Excellent tour -- thanks for sharing!
Beautiful, man! An inspiration for my wife and I! Thanks for sharing your home.
Excellent house...thank you for sharing !
Very beautiful and environment friendly home. Thanks for showing such a good video.
you should write a book describing how you did these wonderful things. What a guy! Talented. beautiful job.
Dianne Robinson He didn't really invent the idea. There is a CZcams documentary called something like garbage warrior if you like to know more.
michael reynolds invented the idea
Thanks for bringing us along. Would be great to hear what you would do different in your next build.
Thanks
Passive cooling is great and all... but I'm starting an Earthship this spring and I'm planning on engineering an energy efficient active cooling solution built directly into a passive system -so that either may be used. I have plenty of water, so evaporation cooling seems to be my best option.
The water pump will run on 12v but the exhaust fan needs to be pretty powerful. A 300 watt exhaust fan should be sufficient. With the addition of two solar panels I could directly power the active cooling system during hot days. When I'm not cooling the Earthship - a transfer switch can direct that extra energy into a battery bank or dump load. I want to build an over-sized aquaponic greenhouse on my earthship so that I can produce large quantities of food year-round... and an indoor swimming pool wouldn't be a bad idea either =)
where are you at?
poweredbyaaron99 Please if you could record your build that would be amazing! Or if you could give a tour or something. I'm sure many of us would love to see your dream in reality! :) Good luck and take care!
a natural pool would be my choice, many are converting their blue painted concrete pools to be green eco friendly with living plant cleaning systems. Check them out they're beautiful
lol I call BS
Beautiful, thank you :) Very nice work and cozy
An excellent builder and a world class architect. I love this man's videos!
Very cool ! Can't wait to get mine finished !
Beautiful work !
Absolutely beautiful and very close to my dream home design!
Lovely home. Thank you!
Thanks for the tip on the Copperass (Iron Sulfate) concrete stain trick.
Really beautiful...wonderful job
Fantastic home - you should be very proud, it is very beautiful.
Thanks for Sharing.
Cheers, Patrick
Great! great! video you give a great amount of information to know what sort of things I should be learning about in order to be able to build an off grid home. It almost like an index of stuff to go and learn from. The house is also beautiful BTW you should be extremely proud. Thanks for sharing. 😁
Thank you for sharing! I can tell you have great caring for your home.So sorry you had to leave it! 20 yrs wow!
Beautiful job !! Very proud of you Ted 😊
This is a beautiful home!
AMAZING! Thanks for sharing. Love the house! I am sharing these videos with my MP, and hope to get some projects under way. Stop the UK Government wasting Tax Payers money on Fracking research, destroying herbal plants and our environment etc, and invest in EARTHSHIPS! Wish me luck!
Dude your house is gorgeous, your cement floor super sleek and pretty. Love your vibe!
Awesome house, Ted! Looks like a genuine and environmentally friendly home to me.
Wonderful home! So well made.
amazing house thank you for sharing!
Beautiful! :) Thanks for showing it to us :)
🇬🇧🇬🇧 impressed by your determination over the years, I may have lost interest and left it half finished! 🇬🇧🇬🇧
STUNNING WORK
We took the Earthship Seminar in September of 1997, don't remember if this one was on the tour or not. Ted sure did a great job and we'd live in it in a heart beat!
This is lovely.
Wow, what a beautiful home!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. One day we hope to live the same way....
Beautiful place. By the way, did you ever think of replacing your beds with Murphy Beds? In my place I have only MBs and I find the space they provide when they are closed amazing. You can buy the mechanisms cheaply on line and incorporate them into your own bed designs; I even know of someone that actually made the mechanism in his shop.
I've seen a lot of Earthships in various videos now, and Ted's is really the first that didn't strictly follow the expected "look." Kudos to him, he really has a very keen design esthetic.
Thank you for this video very informative for those of us who want to learn about earth ship living
Great house!! Very well done.
Beautiful! Very talented
Beautiful
It must be hard to leave
Sofar, handsdown my favourite layout, look and feel.
I really love the house. Beautiful job. A labor of love, I'm sure.
It would be hard to leave.
This is so nice !
I love it...and hope to build my own near Crockett, TX one day.
Great video. Home is very nice.
Your cat would like a moment of your time...
justalurkr I love the cat :)
ONE OF THE MANY AWESOME SOULS AND FRIEND I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED ! LOOKING GOOD TED !
long live ted
RIGHT ON !
Very beautiful
beautiful home sir.
This building setting works for not everyone as many folks prefer to have windows in all sides. In colder weather, windows have to be a specialty ones, that are double or even triple and those big windows are costly for sure, which has to be hallways in front part and again windows to cut hit loss during fridged night of northern climate.
So beautiful! I want visit one in person so badly!!!!!!!!
Very nice house Ted great job.
If my cisterns were over flowing I’d say it’s full tub time!! 👍🏼
Beautiful house
Great job, like your house.
Thank you to show your house. And sharing the way you live and how efficient it is. Just a quick comment. I know it’s good to filter your water. But if you get fresh water it’s is very healthy to drink specially from the ground. Too much filtration will kill the good minerals on the water... just a tip for you. 🌺
Awesome!!! Just love Your home. Wondering if You and Your Family built another Earthship home and that's why you were moving?
Nice Earthship! And Kombucha!
great house,love your enginuity,and equally a good presentation. im s welder so i can appreciate your little art projects.keep up the good work
cheers
at 7:00 IKEA ain't got nothing on your window shades! love your design
My Uncle Ted had a Shed to get away from it all, but love your set up as well.
This is pretty , I love it , and would never move x
nice work
Moving?
Can I get a floor lay out? love this design
Awesome !
+Kelly Sheridan thsnks kelly!
Nice place!
If I built one I would get or make automatic vents, install some sensors and program it to keep stable temperature.
Thank you for the tour. Does the internet broadcasted from your produce high speed internet? Example fast enough to run a VOIP phone, stream Netflix and CZcams videos at 1080p or higher? I would love to live in an Earthship community however I require fast internet for my work. Thanks.
Is your new one done?! I'd love to see it!
how do you prevent alge growth in the cisterns? and how do you set up the electricity and water?
Impressive!
Surprised the new home he built he did not show any rooms underground. Yet this one has one.
Wow!! Very nice
could you go into more depth on "what rules to break and what rules not to break" a whole vid perhaps. more details on your home too!
Does it get too hot in the summer? Why did you use can walls where you want thermal mass?
Where did you buy the washing machine from? I'm hoping to build one of these type of homes in GA one day. (If I'm allowed that is, other than that we may be off to Mexico!)
What was the total cost of putting everything together? Would you recommend to others to build an earthship? Thank You!
Awesome house!
+Matt Nunya thanks matt
Very nice video and house; thanks for posting it. What is the arrangement with the internet provider - do you get free internet, do they pay you? How fast is your connection? Is this type of arrangement common?
+John Hunter taos net, its good speed, maybe 25 down , 5 up. Costs regulat amount. Everyone has it out here. Its delivered via radio
My dream house, dream on.
Loved it where you moving to ?
how dare people give a thumbs down, after you welcomed them into your home. how rude. said with a smile
Nice kombucha culture at 9:19!
thats a big cat! looks like a fun house for a cat!
Sweet!
wow i would love to build something like this in south America or Africa
I have been watching your video's for a year noe. Why are you moving?
I have the same question.
I am probably too old to build my own Earthship, but I am looking to buy an already made one, if possible.🙏
@@carolgarrett1786 You see them listed on zillow sometimes in Taos, NM.
dat natural light.
That's a good one.
I’m very interested in building an earth berm house or earthship. I will be building it a colder climate. That being said I have always thought that the best way to heat one of these in very cold places was to build in rocket mass heaters. You’ve got all that thermal mass it only seems to make sense to incorporate a rocket mass heater into that mass to heat it. Do you know anyone who has done this? I’d like to see how that works.
AmeriJam Acres, you READ MY MIND! I'm in CT, and it gets cooooold in the winter here too!
I live in the desert southwest too like Ted. But there are families that have used the rocket mass heaters here. It is not as cold as up north but the desert floor will get very cold. And we do get freezing temps at times also. Check it out on CZcams mylittlehomestead they have two that look very nice in the homes.
My little homestead on YT.
It's beautiful I could watch another 20 minutes of this video. I like your homemade touches in the bathtub and cabinets repurposing windows and cans, good job. I'm sure you will miss her.
+Bob Vance thanks bob
Most fun was his t-shirt!
Does the cat come with the Earth Ship?
Bellissima casa sostinibele.
Great Earthship.
will you be building another new home? And will you be taken us along for the ride
I think there are videos of others he built, for rental.
Where is it???
What rules did he learn not to break?
Oh dear! I hope you have a heater for your fish tank. They might be chilly down there.