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If you are wiring this shed without a permit do not hard wire your final wire into your panel. Just put a plug at your panel and plug it in . That makes it a temporary connection just like your corded drill and NO permit needed..... Because your walls are so super insulated you should be wiring your shed with a wire that is one more size larger than normal size. The reason for this is standard wiring in a standard insulted wall can dissipate excess heat build up in the wires that have the lesser insulated value walls. Your super insulated walls can cause the heat to build up in your wiring - or just undersize your breakers or fuses..... It is not the end of the world if you don't over size wired or under size your breakers BUT you are building in NEW territories with your super insulated walls so play it safe and do not get a bad rap incase of problems. These problems mostly occur with permanent electrical loads like ELECTRIC HEATERS . I really enjoy your videos !
yep , we have a 200 square foot limit for "storage sheds" that don't require a permit as long as it is not for living,no permanent electrical,plumbing or heating. Everyone jshould take the time to understand their zoning & building codes.
If I built a garden shed, I think I would just use conduit.
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Inspiring stuff. The world needs more innovators like you and we wouldn't have a cost-of-housing crisis.
That's why we do it!
I want to thank you so much for doing this, We were going to build some arches like this soon but it looks like you cracked the code. We are grateful for all the advice.
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Great update! I love the idea and possibility of styroaircrete. Thanks for educating us and bringing us along to follow your project. That's going to be the nicest garden shed in the USA.
Haha thanks!
myself after qualifying structural engineering by JBP university I got experience in WRD 33yrs also working for UAE as SPM skyscrapers long term, Your super lightweight structures designs are opening a new era of research work in the civil engineering and your efforts deserve high appreciations, but require balancing compress/tensile moments for live and dead loads to obtain new standards of building codes for better applications, thanks,
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Glad to see updates on this, your work is very appreciated!
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Interesting idea! I've made temporary arched structures before, but hadn't thought of using it in combination with aircrete!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Very interested in seeing how it progresses!
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Nice! We just finished stuccoing our aircrete garden wall. Video coming out in a week or two. Excited to start planting some veggies. 🌱🌞
Thanks Red & April. Loving your videos.
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I love this. We are building one of the arched cabin house kits, and I pondering this for a greenhouse. Just maybe doing the styroaircrete for the bottom portion like the portion on your right, and do the upper part with polycarbonate panels 😍
Lazy A-Hole Ranch that is a great idea and I think would work great. Let me know if you do it.
like your moniker i would call grandpas place he would answer” funny farm how can i help you”
@@napleswolverine7189 ha! I remember similar, fun, simpler times of the past.
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We are constructing a couple of greenhouses on the TX-OK border. Temperature control is our main issue.
We will be using Stephen's wall system all the way to the top, EXCEPT for the ridge row along the top.
The ridge row will be covered by a clear plastic cap for the full length of the greenhouse.
That space for sunlight will be 16 inches (8 inches on each side of the peak).
Stephen's walls & roof will give a much better control of temp. in summer as well as winter. Grow lights, with controlled sunlight works very well. Mirrors are also used carefully to increase "side" light for our vertical hydroponics.
I believe Stephen has created a far better greenhouse than we have seen before.
@@AbundanceBuild Try a hawk and trowel!.......and raise the mud up so you dont need to bend over to reach it.........I am an old drywall man and used them for years( wore on hawk out)!......
......Hi Stephen....it is fun to watch your vids. You have given me new ideas and completely changed the direction of my own research. I took a 26" floor sanding disk ( like a big plastic scrubby pad), and made good foam fast with that wired to a mixer, on a 1.2" drill. Yes, fast and good foam and $7., much cheaper than a foam generator and just as good............plastic trash cans are fine for all the mixing....I made a sryro chopper a bit easier than yours too....
.... .I started with a bamboo frame, and small, thin 2 or 4 ft. square blocks of foam cement wired to it, mortared, then fill the void with the fc. This would be possible with the styro aircrete blocks, and a wetter fill mix, and is similar to steel frames and fc used in tall buildings in india. Adding $17/yd. fiber to the stucco, along with the mesh, is no problem. Bamboo is free in many parts including here, and the details of boo are easier when the crete will hold it all together, giving a concrete structure more valued by people in the tropics, and all of the advantages of fc...... .
...roofing, ;chia is wires and mesh holding mulch and dirt onto a green roof( on plastic)......., then there is silicone roofing, you can add colorants to it. Then there is the metal roofing, which may not last longer than plastic with the silicone stuck to it( any color you want)....good for art!.....metal is also the most expensive.....There is also soil cement on mesh on plastic which looks nice and you can put metal shavings into it, which rust nicely, and then looks like a natural rock
........Good luck with everything!
I used to be a metal roofer.. and our company tried this new method of roof decking called LOAD MASTER.. it was technically 7/16 inch sheetrock with beveled sides to mimic tongue and groove. We used 2 layers staggered so that no joints met above and below. Then taped the joints with super masking tape.. later a asphalt shingle roof could be nailed to that sheetrock.. but my point is, sheetrock is flexible and works well with grout or cement..
You're right! Drywall is one of the options we teach in the class. We just like the low cost and longevity of stucco best if you're willing to do the work.
Thank you for all the wonderful information. I had been wondering how to go about pouring a roof on my aircrete building and tying it all together for strength. You have given me some great ideas.
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Super cool design! Thanks for sharing. Would love to build this someday. I can see the ends being all glazing and would make a nice living unit
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Who knew that salad dressing was also a good wood preserver?
I love this arched building idea. It's been on my radar for a few years, as has aircrete and hempcrete.
Thanks for turning my imagination into reality!
woodlife coppercoat is a better preservative. but his cheaper solution will probbaly last longer than his lifetime,
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Thanks for sharing as always! I’ve toyed with the idea of doing a aircrete shed for a while and also arched ideas. Interesting to see this take shape.
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I'm blown away with all the great information here. I've had to watch this particular video over and over again. Thank you.
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Awesome! I've been looking forward to this arched frame build.
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Thank you Stephen, yet another great video packed with usable in formation, keep up the great work!
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Thank you man. So much detailing in your explaining got my brain running in endless possibilities. I’m an Architectural Draughtsman
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I really love this roof style which I thought was called Gothic but I've always tried to climb into some of the barns that were framed like this to see how they built
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I do like the way you are thinking with this structure. The arch/curve of the wall/roof add to the over all stiffness and stability.
I would be wary of doing this with a conventional style wall and roof unless you put a collar tie across at each truss or maybe every other truss. The sharp corners would tend to act as a hinge point other wise. There is a large lever arm between the wall-roof junction and roof peak. A cable going across the building would work if the ends had proper anchor points embedded in the wall. Something like a 3/4 or 1 inch pipe running the length of the wall that the cable ends loop around would work. But I think lumber set in sockets would be more practical.
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Great video. The truss/arch build sparked my creativity; thus, my next structural build will certainly employ elements of this system.
Thanks for the video and all the hard work that went into creating it.
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Great video. Thanks for making it and I look forward to your future installments.
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Great info and projects. Thanks for pointing out the questionable compressive strength. This may be one project I do for a workshop
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I really like your laminated hollow blocked trusses. It occurred to me that you could thread cable diagonally through them for hurricane bracing and anchoring to the foundation. Why do you put vinegar in the wood preservative? I was thinking instead of 4x8 masonite for the forms you could use oiled rough cut lumber and pack the styrocrete in 'lifts' 10" or 12" at a time, reusing the planks as the mix sets. There is a product I use called Spider Lath (alkali resistant 1/4"fiberglass mesh) for projects similar to ferrocement, but without the steel. I spray a surface bonding cement through it with a hand held mortar sprayer. I built our koi ponds that way, it makes a very strong thin shell, with no steel to rust and degrade the cement. I prefer Sakrete stone veneer mortar, its acrylic fortified and very durable. Our ponds are five years old and freeze over every winter. A mortar sprayer is a great tool but it does requires a large air compressor. It might be a solution if you think your other buildings foundation might need some reinforcement.
Nice idea of creating "lifts" and go up slowly but surely and saving on the wood. I was thinking on using simple sandwich panels for sign making" the aircrete wont stick to it, and you can re-use it infinitely.
What size air compressor do you use to run your sprayer?
In the 70’s I helped my stepfather build a 50 ft commercial fishing boat out of ferrocement! Lighter and stronger than steel (the Annie Gray, Originally fished out of Moss Landing, we sold the boat in the early 80’s and it was briefly used in the largest marijuana smuggling operation on the west coast before being seized by the DEA and we got it back, then resold it - have no idea where it is now. ). It was a long and tedious process for one man, and occasionally his wife, kids, or a friend or two to build the wire frame of an entire 50’ commercial fishing boat, spray it etc.
I spent a large part of my childhood & teen years in Moss Landing harbor, or sleeping//playing on the beach there or working on/fishing the boat or helping others. But it convinced me of the value of ferrocement as a construction method and I would not hesitate to use it (given the proper mix) to build anything. I’ve trusted my life to it in seas where waves were breaking over the top of our boat (30-40 foot waves going between Half Moon Bay & San Francisco), so except for earthquake country- It’s strong enough to withstand just about anything.
@@SFX95901First I had a small Porter Cable upright on wheels, 25 gallon, 5.8SCFM@ 90 PSI, that I used for nail guns and various air tools. When I got the mortar sprayer I could see that it was not enough and it would burn out the machine pretty quick. The sprayer literature recommended a minimum of 11 CFM @90 PSI. It needs a lot of air to work right. I purchased an Ingersoll Rand SS4, 60 gallon, 14 CFM stationary upright that runs on 220 volts to spray the mortar for our koi pond. It was about $1300 with accessories but I'm glad I did it. I had to get 1/2" hose and automotive fittings with a larger ID to deliver the air. It's enough, but in this case more is better. Another option would be a diesel trailer compressor like they use for jack hammers. Ferrocement is great, first thing I made was an octagonal picknic table that resembles a flying saucer. I read that before fiberglass they used to make racing sailboats out of it. It's great for sculpture and the mortar sprayer and alkyli-resistant fiberglass mesh makes it all the more durable. Now there is basalt rebar if you can find it and improved mixes to spray. Some are acrylic enhanced and I have heard of flexible or rubberized mixes. That is pretty cool and unique that you got to help build a ferrocement boat when you were young. You must appreciate the economy of the thin strong shell that can take any shape. Good to hear from you.
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I made a small arch to top a blackberry trellis and it split. Thanks to watching your arch method I understand what I did wrong, and have many ideas on how to improve the next one. Thanks.
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Can't wait to start making styro-aircrete Geodesic domes this summer up in Alaska! Thanks for the videos they are a huge inspiration!
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Been wondering about just this__ making a 1/8th segment mold, for styrocrete ( to end up with pieces like this czcams.com/video/VvnFjuPRFwo/video.html) putting a coat of plasters mesh and cement render against the form then followed by styrocrete, with steel mesh mid pour// finished with another layer exterior mesh and cement plaster putting recesses on the forms so the joint can be mesh taped (Like sheet rock ) Would build the mold for the inside face and screed finished the outside (top ) with a curved screed board. Would also consider steel/ rod ties that could be joined to provide horizontal tension in finished walls. The video shows a lot of well thought out detail. Japanese originators variant czcams.com/video/VvnFjuPRFwo/video.html (The mesh skins are to stop the segments snapping whilst being assembled. )
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@@AbundanceBuild hey thanks but the carpenter I was working with in Alaskas has gotten to old to actually build the styrocrete dome we wanted to use showcase to viability of styrocrete. would you be interested in doing one together this summer . The goal is to use make one then make dome kits to help our apps users create a network of affordable housing coops, that teach people how to build affordable housing and pay them , kinda like uber but for housing , it's called RegenQuest. We plan to us styrocrete first and then working with the university of Washington to plastic eating mycelium insulation which I'm super excited to work with to fill the dome triangles with that instead of concrete! If you'd be interested in starting one of those locations at your place I'd love to work together to make affordable housing more accessible! We are working with hundreds of grad students across the us and Canada on coding our apps and websites and will have a full marketing and company up and running by April which is when we want to start building the first 1500$ dome home made with styrocrete, and creating a mass movement behind the idea that people shouldn't have to pay more than 5000$ for a home and we have land partners signed up that want to facilitate these regenerative neighborhoods! My goal is end homelessness and food insecurity globally by 2035 and make it possible for people to live for free and sustainably on a network of green locations that they helped create, I think we could do some amazing things together, and since these would be coops the profit splits would be 50/50
25% to you the land owner
25 to the development of your land to anything you want and of the manufacturing site to be more productive
25 to the workers at the site
25 to RegenQuest to develop more locations !
Wow....as you are explaining I'm seeing myself building this!!!
Great work, great research, usefull presentation and thank you for sharing.
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Ever thought of pouring like a tip up concrete warehouse walls? Might be much easier to tamp tightly. Yes, there would be more 1 time cost for reusable forms.I’m also thinking chicken wire throughout the pour would really increase strength.
You mentioned a tornado structure in one of your videos. This caught my attention as while we now live in non-tornado Oregon we are considering moving to Indiana…..
A rounded structure would be the strongest, so I thought using a large used child’s domed monkey bars would be good bones to start with.
There is a Japanese dome home system that uses precast dome arch segments. I believe they are made with expanded polystyrene foam and maybe fiberglass.
Looking at the truss that you built in front of the shed I'm just throwing this off the top of my head but it just doesn't seem like it has the strength of a normal truss which has a whole different angled criss-crossed pattern of connecting your pieces again I don't think you've got a lot of strength there but again depending on what you're going to use them for but I would test them for strength
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Absolutely brilliant. Really enjoy your work, looking forward to your next upload.
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You get fairly tight bends in 1"+ thick wood by steaming it first, I worked at a furniture maker that used 2"x2" oak boards to make rocking chair runners, we steamed them for 2hr then placed them in a jig to cool and dry for a few days, they came out deformed to shape and held it.
Nan I have seen some interesting videos showing how this is done. Yes that would work very well for these arched A-frame trusses.
Great work Mr. Williams. Thank you for sharing.
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I'm very inspired and excited about your research and results. Please continue with this work.
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This is the 6th video of yours that I've watched. It has taking me this long to figure out who you remind me of ( Mr Rogers - won't you be my neighbor) ;) I'm very inspired Thanks for sharing this information
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Absolutely FANTASTIC!
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Thinking out loud...I recently came across some free 3/4" schedule 80 20'conduit. I am making some hoop houses out of it for growing. I was thinking of a way to utilize the PVC in a similar fashion as it will form an arch very easy. the blocks could be drilled and the PVC passes through it at the edge of the block and a screw through the PVC into the blocking. The trusses would be slimmer but also could be filled with an expandable foam or the foam aircrete if it is capable of being pushed by air, etc.
Good video and food for thought. BTW it looks like the table saw blade could use a sharpening (hate to see you get hurt).
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Nice update! My family and I look forward to seeing more in the near future, especially if we can make that quick detour on our way from Central Arkansas to the Huntsville area.
Jeff I appreciate your input. I have had a few folks come by already and it has been enjoyable to make new friends and show how to build with Styro aircrete.
@@AbundanceBuild my family will be passing by Florence tomorrow on our way back to Arkansas. We'd love to visit for an hour or so if possible and maybe get our hands dirty with you
Are you building with aircrete in Huntsville?
@@jrhardy6147 not sure if you're asking me, but "no" - our project is planned for the Ozark Foothills here in Arkansas
Looks good wow really looks great! Great job!
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Love the real/ functional wood shutters
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Thanks for the sealer tip.
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Steam the strips in a 6" pipe with steam from a wallpaper stripper for an hour and then you will be able to bend them as far as a 3' radius. This is called steam bending and has been used since medieval times to bend even 4" oak for cathedrals.
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Very well explained. Thanks for sharing your ideas. It looks just GREAT.
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This channel is awesome Stephen, thanks for your work, great stuff!
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Thank you for sharing your ideas and experiences
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Thank you for showing us all your progress. Definitely like to see this approach with a planning office work around. Not apilicable to this project, but I'd love to know your thoughts on how styroaircrete could be used in the context of a dug-in partially below grade building. Seems like this material could work for insulating the whole building, but I worry about the permeability and cracking over time.
I think especially considering permitting you'd have a hard time using this in a typical building, I was thinking for a exterior siding it might be really useful though and then you shouldn't have issues with the state or city county etc
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Great job Stephen, your building is looking Good!
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Arches are crazy strong. I built two solar storage sheds out of plastic fence panel walls, 1" PVC water pipe, and Twin wall Poly... Panels screwed to 2x4 top and bottom rails that are fastened to 4x4 posts in ground. Roof is twinwall-polycarbonate bent into arches. I fastened 1"PVC pipes to 2x4 at each end, compressed with come along, and temporarily wired to hold correct arch. PVC fastened to pipes and 4x8 foot roof sections lifted easily on top of 2x4 top rail. The top 2x4 forms the ridge and very strong fastened to the other side. Capped the top with screen to keep the bugs out and an inverted pvc gutter (free at Menards) to keep the rain out. One fence panel was disassembled and reassembled to make a door (Wafer headed screws and polyurethane glue makes them strong). Both sheds survived Derecho last year and one went through a tornado that took down large maples in my yard a couple years ago. The plastic arch truss has taken every Iowa snow load, and I am able to clime on top. PVC Pipes are 1' center.
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That’s really neat, thanks for sharing!
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Great work!
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Interesting, i was just about to construct something similar, and here is a video explaining the details
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I have used osb and Luan on archways. I would suggest toggles every 24 to 32 inches. Anything less and osb tends to bulge in the middle.
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Great videos of using styrofoam for building,thank you!!
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I just found your channel and I like what you are doing. FYI, like others have said regarding code, I have a comment, ramset concrete nails are not sufficient for anchoring walls to a slab. I am not a pro, but I did build an addition onto my house and initially, I used concrete nails to fasten my walls to the slab, the inspector made me change bolted anchors. I know you said you don't need to fuss with code, but I imagine there's a reason (safety) why nails are not allowed.
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I'm building something similar for my shop, was going to plank the inside and out with skid planks, as you can get as much as you want for free, then fill the void with the same strofoam aircrete mix. Then just use steel sheets for the outside cladding.
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Love it. Thanks so much.
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Looks great👍
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Years back, my stepdad sprayed used oil in a big old barn, hundreds of gallons for decades. One day the tractor exhaust ignited some hay. It went up like a candle and melted the siding off the neighbor's house 40 yards away. Our house had cedar shakes. Ran the sap out of them, blistered the door and broke a window. Use asphalt or bitumen if you must instead of oil, the paraffin and whatnot has higher ignition temps and won't really light readily until it is smoking hot.
Fortunately his wood is encased in the Crete
apples to oranges. styroaircrete is fireproof
Wow thanks for sharing!
I might suggest that when it comes to creating a waterproof panel for your form, you might consider simply gluing a very thick (10 mil or so) plastic sheet to the panel, and then even before each pour you could also cover that with a sacrificial 1 mil sheet pulled tightly over it - but it probably wouldn’t be necessary.
In general you would pour your foundation with foundation bolts that will protrude and the you would not have to use the technique you did, or drill and use expanding cement bolts.
As for waterproofing wood, there are copper based waterproofing products for ground contact wood that is far superior to any oil type coating. When I was ranching and putting wood fence posts or post barns poles in - we used black roof patch (a tar like compound, completely waterproof) to coat the entire surface of the wood that would be underground and then about 6” further up. In several decades, even in fencing posts that ran through seasonal creek beds (7-8 months wet), never had problems with rot in pine posts.
I wonder how your methods would work using perlite or vermiculite instead of shredded styrofoam?
There are some cases where those materials might be vastly superior because they have more heat resistance and in the case of vermiculite, are fireproof. So there is no risk of their decomposing when exposed to high heat or fire and giving of toxic fumes (as of course styrofoam would).
I had wanted to build an outdoor kitchen, including a wood burning stove where the body would be a vermiculite cement mix, lined with a thinner layer of clay or firebrick.
Still in the aspirational stage though, no CZcams channel to make me do it- lol.
Great ideas!
One sigestion I have done is cut 7/16 osb strips to make arch . Would cut 3 inch wide to be little stronger .used 12 foot radious start on inside strip and staple together . Straps bend smoother convex. Trying to bend inside concave straps more likely to snap. Also 7 strips minimum number layers needed to avoid arch straightening as it comes out of the mold
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This is a really neat idea. Thank you for all the tutorials and data. This is great information. Greetings from Alaska.
Greetings from Alabama!
I am eager to see the next videos on this project!
How are you going to deal with the surface of the aircrete? Are you going to protect it with a mesh and stucco like the workshop?
( I have seen in a video where someone made raised garden bed panels. If the mix was too light, the panels were easily damaged by scrapes from a mower or weed trimmer)
I have really enjoyed your videos, you put a lot of thought in and give great explanations.
I reaallly want to try something like this (styroaircrete) but I am undecided as to which idea to pursue first!
Raven yes I will cover it with fiber mesh and add two coats of stucco and then paint the exterior with elastomeric roofing paint.
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Awesome Informative Great video !!!
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Thanks so much for the video, Stephen. Is the slab on grade foundation regular concrete? How thick? Would it be possible to do compression test to find out load capacity of styroaircrete please? Thanks!
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This is really great!
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Loadmaster, one word.. is still in business.. I just checked their website.. they have upgraded to newer better edging starter strips.. but this sheetrock is exterior type sheetrock.. give you something to ponder about. I'd like to show you my concept on concrete floor foundation Without a one day unipour.. and it can be nailed to for any other walls or flooring applications you come up with. Not everyone can pour a slab in one day by themselves.. plus any additions or multiple directions or addons can easily be attached.
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The beauty of this would be using it in rural West Virginia...
Sounds great!
I wonder if you could make the trusses out of concrete or a high density aircrete. Then you could make one or two moulds and reuse them instead of making individual wood trusses. And you would eliminate the wood/organic (flammable, rot, etc) factor from the structure.
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I watched several of your videos. Consider changing the PH in the water. A ph 7+ sometimes causes foam even without soap. So adding some baking soda will easily raise the PH. Especially if the water is under 7ph. This may help the bubbles last longer. A smaller bubble is stronger. Thanks for the video's.
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Great Gable example. Good job on the video.. We need less expensive and more sustainable structures. Keep up the good work.
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Thank YOU so so much!!!!!
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so cool!
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Garden shed? This would make a phenomenal hunting & fishing cabin. I would move in tomorrow.
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great job! try using plywood strips for the frame build though, faster and still cheap. bends beautifully as well!
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I am a physician, will I ever need this? Definitely not, but I've watched every video that you have made about aircrete, it's very interesting indeed, maybes when I retire I'll do this for fun!
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SUPERB !!!!
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More videos please!
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I found this very interesting, and useful.
What are the proportions by volume of the mix please?
What did you use for the floor slab, plain concrete, or your foamed mix?
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Excellent. .... Video.
You just inspired me a stack. I especially enjoyed your gable frame. Brilliant.
Will you be making a full video of this ?
Man ! ! Am I stoked ... You got a sub.
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really enjoyed this video and am very interested in the arch method. is there anyway you could do a more in depth video of building the arches, especially from an above view. thanks for the great video and ideas.
Hope channel cat I wish that I had done a better video of that but when I was editing realized that I had not gotten any up close pictures of the trusses. I will add some better pictures in the next video. Thanks for your input.
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Looking great to me
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I’ve really enjoyed your videos. I do wish you would actually shot the physical process. Thanks
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Have you done a Styro-Aircrete wall laying down - and then lift it into place once it cures? I could see using 8' X 9' X 4" thick panels that go between Timber framing. Really enjoying the information!
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I wonder about cost analysis for making and selling panels for raised beds and mobile home foundation siding. Great work though, your system of deployment is improving, but I would think there are still a handful of milestones for it to enter a popular market. Kind of thinking out loud. You Sir are a pioneer!!
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You can use 3mm oil hardened board in steed of 11mm OSB. This is specially benefisial when doing with concrete becasue oil hardened boards are hydrofobic, there for better to recycle. They are also flatter.
And as long as the wall is curved, they will not buckle, if the walls are straight, that might be a problem
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Really like what you’re doing thanks for the video really getting the gray matter going thanks again ehhhh
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Very cool although I'd run flexible conduit to the outlet positions to allow me flexibility in wiring down the road.
That can be done, go for it!
You may want to experiment with substituting latex paint for some of the water. It would add strength and tend to make the aircrete water proof.
Good idea!
Looking for added strength and the ability to take screws check out expanded glass.
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See the wood bent at the salt lake Mormon temple and tabernacle choir...
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You could try steaming the wood before you bend it, that way you might not need to do two layers to get the bend. This looks great. Are you poring it straight into the walls? Great video. Can you publish the numbers for your mix that you are using? Thanks for sharing your work.
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Loving your work so far! Ever consider using a formwork to make a precast arched segment? Just thinking out loud. The casting process could happen in a controlled space and be done horizontally. Assuming the panels are lightweight and handled by people instead of machines the precast shell units could then be bolted together… just add more segments for desired length.
Hey,I like the way you think. I wrote basically the same thing just now.
You could use Polyurethane expanding foam to bond the panel edges together.
The same as used for installing door frames.
More effective than bolts, as there are no high stress point that bolts would cause.
If you're looking to keep your sheet goods from absorbing moisture even though it's more expensive you're better off with oil based paints at least for primer anyway
It's going to be that in the future these inexpensive building materials and designs are going to really be important so that building will be affordable but thinking of this you would think that a Rand Earth House made mostly from just compacted dirt would be an inexpensive way to build but I guess because of it's labor intensive process makes it quite expensive but if they ever figured out a way to just take dirt and make it usable without a lot of energy that would seem to be a cheap way to put up a dwelling or structure
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Have you compared styrocrete made with aircrete vs. plain portland cement? If it is only a few percent difference then maybe not bother with adding foam? Also, in my couple years of experimenting with aircrete I found that poly plastic sheet was the absolute best mold release. In my videos I think there are some shots of me pulling the plastic off the aircrete and it worked great and was reusable. I suggest you try it. I did think of using styrofoam and now seeing your success I may try it. Thanks for all the work you are doing on styrocrete!
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I would have put conduit as power may increase over time and you can re-pull if you get a short.
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Idea ? Would taking a strip of your stucco mesh and adding it in layers during the aircrete pour add to compressive strength? This would use a similar principle as putting fabric into earth behind a retaining wall during the build.
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So one of the things that tends to come up with incorporating styrofoam is that if you don't carefully control the particle sizes you can easily end up with a really high surface area mix that will mess up the rate of water absorption. You don't seem to be too worried about the particle sizes here or the curing process (more or less said water content isn't that important as long as it's workable). Have you learned anything about the impact of styrofoam particle size on the resultant product?
Also, have you done much experimenting to see what properties different ratios of aircrete mix:styrofoam might have? I just find it a really interesting approach and want to know as much as I can about it.
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Almost wonder if u can use pvc pipe for the trusses? Once in place maybe u could fill pipe with spray foam so it is better to screw into
That could work! And PVC pipe is easy to bend when heated