Building your own bioclimatic home from earth and straw
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- čas přidán 26. 09. 2010
- With very little instruction, anyone can build their own home, or so argues natural building expert Michael G. Smith. Since the early nineties, he’s been teaching people to do just that with natural materials like cob and straw bale and he says it’s quite simple.
“If you want to build for yourself, if you actually want to take the time to do the work for yourself, these techniques are very very simple to learn. Cob especially, we teach week-long cob workshops and at the end of that, people with no previous building experience at all know what they need to know to build the cob parts of the house.”
In this video, Smith shows us the natural homes (from cob, straw bale, clay wattle and slip straw) at the Emerald Earth Sanctuary, an intentional community in Mendocino, California where he currently lives and teaches. He explains how since earth homes require less investment in materials, they require more investment in labor, which means to build this way we will need to change the way we live and work.
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I believe it can! I am from Kenya, Africa and my rural home gets a decent amount of tropical rain yet these kind of home have served and survived for ages over there. There's an element of constant maintenance though. About maybe once a month you'd need to re-plaster, typically with fresh cow dung.This effort would take about 2 hrs on 700 sq feet hut. But am talking strictly pure earth and timber structure. With modern techniques, this maintenance may be mitigated or moot all together.
@faheemthedream2007 Yeah, I was pretty blown away by the idea that you can build your own house with so little training: a week of training to learn how to build with cob. I would love to build this way at some point as well.
Dude. What a beautiful video 🥲
we have earth castles in morocco they are many times older than usa, they are still used for tourist now,
you can add salt to the mix, because salt can dry and auto repair the cracks, its awsome,
and there must be a system for water inside of the walls :
and the walls must have holes for the earth to literaly breath :)
Top tips. :-)
I absolutely love this. Thank you Mr. Smith.
I love this, it's like living in a work of art :)
@19irving You need a good roof, good floor (& good drainage underneath) and exterior plaster to protect from rain/moisture. There are centuries old cob homes in the UK (traditionally they used lime plaster). Though I'm no sure about spots where there is a lot of rain that enters at an angle (constant rain that hits the walls and not the roof might be a problem). I'm not an expert so I added a video as a response- "Natural buildings don't melt" - where Michael talks more on the topic.
Absolutely dig this guy!
@AleekahTV Yeah, and inside it feels different as well. It was a really hot day when I filmed and it felt really nice and naturally cool inside (not like with AC).
This is amazing. I'm shocked how beautiful cob houses look and they are affordable to everyone. Just the issue in my country would be with permit for construction. I think I could build a small house like this. This is the only way I can get a place to live without having a 20-30 year loan. It's so liberating.
Great informative Video! Keep it up and keep the info flow..!!
I am seriously moved by this. Having two children and living in southern California buying a home seems so out of reach, let alone paying it of so that we would actually own it. I have been searching and searching for some way to provide for us that wouldn't cripple us financially and the fact that it's so environmentally friendly is awesome. Definitely intend to build a cob home in the near future.
hi lady did u build your home yet?
Hello!
Did you ever go for it ?
I'm planning on building a 600 square foot house with rammed earth for the back of the house and straw-bale for the front. I will be furnishing it with IKEA sinks and space saving tables and such. I will surround it with a fence with enough room for my dogs to run around and keep away the evil chickens.
At about 1:45-2:00 the wall in the background, that's at Solar Living Institute in Hopland Ca. I helped there quite a bit, worked on the wall, intern shower and rebuilding Pacha Mama. Great days they were.
i like that house
vocal cord damage, I believe
@alexross8 You can build a strawbale up north no problem and cob on the inside for thermal mass. It takes some effort to figure everything out but if you are interested then the people doing this kind of thing are the type to help.
do you have a video of living nowadays in your beautiful house? congrats!
@kirstendirksen In tropical climate (heavy rainy places) you have to maintain the walls. And you don't use the straws. The biggest worry is termite which after a half a lifetime causes building collapse. I have never seen it multistory like this, it might be because the ones I've seen are made of clay mixed with fresh cow dung with wooden pillar frame. @19irving look up thatched roof.
nice video comment !
Can you put metal lath against the straw or do you need burlap between the straw and metal lath if you choose to plaster over metal lath?
I want to build a cob house and i do not know how. Thank you..grandma bowling
What would you advise in referrnce to the ratio of componants would be used if you lived the south eastern USA. I would be using red clay mountain sand winter wheat straw and fielded horse and grass fed beef cattle manure on a cement slab and limestone masonry accents with natural wooden (eastern juniper) support structure. If you have any info that can help at all, I would appreciate it.
So it works in the UK, and there are classes there on it. Do they offer classes in the U.S.? Say, in Florida?
This music is also used at the end of 28 days later... its creeping me out.
I may not be corect but I think he is self corecting a stutter. they learn to puase or cahnge tone of there voice to combat the stutter. this is an awesone video
why no guttering?
Can this house be built in a damp climate? Will it survive heavy rain?
wat is stuckeo is it the same as cobo
The background music is almost intolerable...
nice vid, what about cold winters averaging -25 celcius. and and lower at night about -50 c ?
This is a very late response, 8 years 😅 but those techniques are kinda common were i was born and clay and straw, cub erc are great for insulation. Here's super hot but it was always fresh inside the house but when was cold if have a heat source the warm temperature do not scape through the walls easily. I never lived un one of those but my great-aunt had and her home never had an unpleasant temperature.
:( i want to live this way, i always wanted to live only this way i hate city so so so deeply, it takes everything away, and its not satisfied only by my death !
any tips are greatly welcome,
can you tell me how you started, how much budget is needed,
did you go directly to this lifestyle of you worked on it slowly while still working in the city : ?
I love this guy's voice, can you read me a bedtime story?
do you have to get a permit to build,,can you build in the state of florida,,1,500 house build like this,what would the cost be ? thanks
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How can I get into contact with this gentleman?
Vespar Harsh did you ever find this guy?
Do any of you know anywhere in the UK which has workshops or communities like this? I have no money or skills though >_<
But I'd be willing to work in exhange for an off-grid education. I don't mind doing the repetetive labour jobs. So long as I was learning and a part of something. I can help an eco-village or an individual building with their own project. I want to learn all things eco-living based. I'm in Newcastle, willing to travel. Let me know. I'd consider going abroad too.
Fantastic video and information... but why the psycho background music?
Beautiful exit from the insane so called civiliziation.
I think in India they build with cow manure. Is that possible in cob building?
A very old method for cob building but it's all about the correct ratios of the mix.
Man, the guys voice is so hoarse it sounds like he is about to cry... I hope he is doing well.
@LUK0BA this type pf building is nor more susceptible to termites than any other conventional home.
Does anyone know of a Christian CZcamsr who does Earthen Building?
its a plot for a horrow fuckin movie 🎥
Is he going to cry
Naes Shenanigans i checked the comments jusy to see how many ppl had to write obnoxious things about his voice
@lanamal thats not funny
He sounds so upset, it's saddening
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I thought he was getting ready to cry. I couldn't work around him. Listening to him would set me off after a while. It was maddening to watch this. But,
I'm building a Hybrid cabin 400 sq ft. In Cochise county ,Arizona. And wanted more info. I use a mix of sawdust/clay slip blocks, sawdust/straw/slip walls. And good ole Adobe. Some walls and such will be built with new H/T pallets. And will infill with Sawdust/Staw/clay slip in pallets.
I'm blown away by how solid/fireproof this sawdust blocks I'm making are. Slow drying but extremely hard. Just sawdust and clayslip, form up and dry it.
Great video
okay not gonna make fun of your voice but you used a poor choice in music. It makes you not only sound like youre about to cry but solidifies it. Itd be fine without the music
Hmmm... rocks as foundation and wood framing... this is very stupid, the house is very fragile. Whole earth houses, when they dry, act as as a single unit, giving incredible resistance, including to tornadoes and earthquakes. Mixing with American building techniques, splitting earth walls into simple slots between framing is a very bad and wrong idea. Also walls must have 60-80 cm width in order to self sustain their own weight and give portability to 2nd floor.
Evey one cry I like building with the earth. What else you going to build with things from other plants I've built almost everything. Building it is not the problem the problem starts when government groups come out and tell where is your 100 permits. Who is the architect, draftsman, etc, I always what to be smart and reply are those men coming coming out to drive nails and put roofing roofing on for free. . Now this is a mess you pay groups to tell you how to build the house your going to live in. Let me be quite no one wants to hear it, so keep paying and keep praying
lol. If you went to school for architecture, you'd understand the long term repercussions of building without proper education. Good luck with the house after a storm, or 10 years of use.
Houses like this have been built for thousands of years before any schools of architecture were developed. They're still standing all over the world; just not in America. That's because they're tore down purposely simply because of a building program that is skewed towards one paradigm, which is highly ineffecient and doesn't take the ecosystem and wildlife components into consideration.
Honestly I don’t think you need a degree to understand that there will be long term needs out of your build. Just a brain ✨