I'm genuinely floored by your simply badass style of video making for such an honest and important subject that more people should be excited about. You, my friend, are an ARTIST!
This was possibly the most concise, informative, and watchable video on these techniques that I've seen to date. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
@@pundalikadagal Yes, all over the world. But they kept the brick/block shape the same, not interlocking. Why? No one questioned, just imitated without improvement.
@@lebanonchristian3951 well when you add calcium (eggs shells deposits crushed fired and add water to the mix fire again) then add and then fire the brick, it becomes calcified, making is resistant to water, there are also ash clay bricks, which as per the name is has furnace ash added to the clay mixture to get a stronger for defined well rounded brick
Thank for the video! It is very interesting to see. I'm born at Kazakhstan and we have house which was build same Technic by my grands after World war II. We still use this house just my parents had build extra room and joint this together with my grands house. Nito please pay your attention for one important things, it is critical to maintain the house by white Lime paint. It will keep wall waterproof and weatherproof. I know what i say, my family living part of this house still now. So we have real live experience over 70 years.
@@outlaw1179 No it's not the fruit. Google the words lime wash or lime plaster. It was THE main wall covering building material until the invention of drywall products and inexpensive concrete in the early to mid 20th century. Essentially, once it's dry it's limestone. So in a lime wash you get a micro coating of limestone over your surface. They were using it clear back in Egyptian times and many paintings done with it are still around today. It's fascinating stuff!
@@outlaw1179 take seashells or limestone or other calcium rich material, heat till the glow in a fire I dont know how long, after this cools off separate and introduce water to burnt limestone mix in a separate container and wait. it is something along these lines.
Typically the lime layer is added first as it's the hardest & will crack more easily when stressed. Then the cob layer is added as a finish layer because cracks happen less frequently & are cheaper to patch. Slap on some white/color wash & you're good. For waterproofing, an oil that doesn't go rancid is applied every so often to keep it water resistant in areas with a lot of exposure to water (bathrooms, kitchens (Moroccan tadelakt)). But either way, those layers won't be preserved if the house doesn't have a good hat & good boots - deep roof overhang & a stone foundation that doesn't wick water.
Where should the coat of lime go? Are you saying it should go in the middle of the wall? The lime coating goes on the outside and is the last, or second to last if you oil the surface, because the lime prevents mold and protects the clay wall itself. The lime coat IS the whitewash sotosay. Or do you mean build the wall from cob, etc, then a lime coat, then another thin layer of clay/cob to finish? So the last layer of clay would be a sort of sacrifical layer? @@MeanOldLady
You just answered all my questions about earth building in one 5-minute video!! Awesome!!! Best earth building video I've seen in a loooooong time!!! Thanks so much!!!
As I know, what you did is unique over the internet ! I personnaly build my house with mud in Brittany (France). I practiced almost all the techniques you described and I'm yet to find a website that would explain mud building techniques like you did. I immediately watched all your videos and that's an Amazing Job !! Please continue if you know other techniques that you can share. For example : How do you do, on very large walls (2 story house facade...), to keep an even look once finished ? One part will be dry when you come back with more mud and that will let a visible junction ! Specially when you are all by yourself to do all tasks (preparing and applying mud). Witch tool do you use for rounded corners ? Outer corners are simple with trowel but it's not convenient in inner corners ! I personnaly use semi rigid plastic (cutted in ice cream pot) to tighten the small cracs while mud is drying because trovel will let iron marks on dry mud. You dont seem to have this problem ? And before plastic technology, what was used ? Thank you for your amazing job !
Woo I love this comment! Great questions you really hit on some of the finer points here, unfortunately there's no one answer to these questions, like Plastering a big wall by yourself becomes a big puzzle piece or a game where you plan out all your movements and migrations, what you do to prepare for it like trying to make everything go slow, and knowing where you're going to break sometimes it's making that into a emphasis itself, again there's not much I can really say here besides sometimes killing the suction as much as you can from the wall beneath, that means shading, saturating the wall, or even acrylic bonder sometimes, sometimes I even start hydrating the spot where I plan to break when I start in the morning, to allow me time for lunch. Corners is a great topic, because it's one of the most important parts it's because it's where the eye goes, I have footage for a video on Corners that I haven't made into anything yet but I'm hoping to get to soon. I'm sure I didn't answer any of your questions but thanks for them, and feel free to ask more.
@@TheNitoProject Yes, you did answer to the main questions !! For very large surface, you have to progress as quick as possible : try not to stop and prepare everything before. If you do have to stop... we are only mortal beings after all, even us, mud workers, that fly far above the rest of humanity, everybody agrees on this ! ;-) If you really have to stop, you have to find a way to keep the break as wet as possible (shading, saturating the wall beneath...). Thank you for your answer and keep doing what you do ! I can't wait to see your video about corners !
Mortal humans? This "person" is actually an "ant!" That's why it seemed like those walls were very small and incomplete. For an "ant' they were more than big enough.
Yeah, the real issue is the building codes. It's always been what's made housing so expensive. But they do need the building codes because contractors will rip people off if they don't have them. I just wish I could build what I want on my own property.
So inspirational and beautiful. Earthy and artistic. Would love to make dirt my home. Thanks so much for making this video. Hope to see more and would be awesome to see step by step builds on functional spaces.
Righteous!! Love it.. I have a lot of roots from my garden... I'm going to try something with this theory with roots and grass. Thanks for the inspiration.
In Africa they add in fresh cow dung to the mixture.The digestive juices plus the cud make it extra strong and less likely to crack. It also is added to the smooth plastering and hair from goats or cows added instead of straw.
I definitely would build an earthen house but I'm torn between earth bags, even though it wasn't here, and Adobe. I love all of the techniques. Thanks.
Awesome! We know that these materials were used most successfully in arid places, for obvious reasons. What about simple heating methods to fire the clay mixtures? I'd like to see a similar evolution of kiln type thingies!
I have not yet seen that last one where you have those slats of wood between the light straw wall. I have seen light straw tamped walls but not with the wood slats slipped between like that. I presume for strength and maybe code. Awesome short video and an excellent visual of each different wall.
Awesome info. Thank u Very Much. Had been thinkin of this exact same thing 4 some time, now, kus i'm plannin my own earth hm. U were right on time w/the measurements: i wondered bout the amts to mix 👍🏽👏
I work at a place called The sustainability Centre, this will be really good teaching young children, can you use all the wooden structures over and over again. Thank you sean
Enjoyable and inspiring watch.I like the timing/editing of scenes, videography and the content. If you love creating with mud, this is like adobe porn.
I used mix6 to do my workshop walls, but with 90% straw and 10% clay mud, result is pretty good and insulation is nice, was a lot of work but cost near nothing (straw from the neighbor and Clay from my land. After it's dried out, the walls part sounds like one part.. It's fun and surprisingly strong...!
U miss 1 more which is the most strong one.. Mud straw and ash.. Ash is same portion as mud.. It will produce the most hard brick that have cooling effect.. If use to build house. The house is cool like u install air-conditioner in house.. If u use pure white ash in small cube or make a cup using it the water u store in it will cool down.. Its an ancient Japan use to use it..
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I second the last comment. Wow fabulous video, so incredibly to the point. Well Done. Thank you so much. Im selfbuilding an eco home at present and this video gives me so much more confidence :-)
Thank you very much for the video, they are helping us a lot at work! We can not wait for the next video :)! P.s. We hope it will be for earthen floors :)!Greetings!
Liked the second mixture. In my country one engineer found 16 types of mud of different color. He made a luxurious single storied house for himself just by these different mixture of muds. I'm really moved by the idea. And surely want to build one for myself inshaAllah.
I hope you meant 16 ways to color mud, not 16 types of mud. I only know of 5 mud formulas, 1. unstabilized. 2. 1+straw. 3. Stabilized with Portland cement 4. Stabilized with emulsified asphalt. 5. Stabilized with geopolymers.
wattle and daub with sea cane woven between the wattle as a cheap bamboo alt. now throw some hay abale insulation on the inside and get r 50 insulation just from stacking and plastering bales.
What about adobe/cement ? sometimes portland cement is used to stabilize poor clay mixtures also sometimes lime is used for the same reasons , not all the soils are good for adobe so it is necesary to add some aditive.
You are amazing! I want to build a house at my farm using those ingredients but no one can do it here. I am going to try to make those miniature wall and bricks using your recipe. I wish I could hire you
Neat! Thanks for giving the recipes in the description. I've been wanting to do some stuff like this around a campsite that I'm setting up in some of our woods.
This method of wattle and daub was USED to build homes ,,,in THE OLD DAYS,,and a lot of them stand even on till today in the islands and also in Africa ,,,very strong method seems so simple but strong and durable
