Thank you for the short and straight to the point video. Love the small housing project too. Keep up the good work and know that every single critic on this comment section is still living in 40 hour America.
I've been researching cob for about 6 years, and I have been actively building my Cob Barndominium for almost 2 years, and this is one of my favorite videos. It's a very fun video, and also its a very informative sequence. Great music as well.
Great project. It doesn't seem to me to be enough sand in it and too much straw. What I learned is to mix 3 parts sand to 1 part clay with just a small amount of chopped straw in it.
come to North East india..we use bamboo, wood, reeds ,mud, cow dung & sacks to make cute huts..they are cool in summer .warm in winter. some add bit of cement
In these cob and earthbag building videos, there’s always a bunch of people doing the work, and curious if there’s been a home built by just one person?
Beautiful work on the house. I like the layer of insulation you put in the roof, I hadn't seen that done yet and I will use the idea. Living up in the north east we have to think about the extreme cold, so our cob buildings may be limited but I'll try and keep the shape! Thanks for the video
I wish there were more pics of the finished house.Im moving to the Philippines soon and if the dirt there will work Zim going to build one of these only much larger for my bride and her son and I to live in because it will be so much easier to cool.AWESOME!
This could have been the perfect project to document the steps for planning and construction of a cob. But instead we were left with another montage of frustrating questions.
I saw a programme on tv in the UK, it was either The Edwardian Farm or The Victorian Farm and they used either bottles or glass jars for insulation, but they didn't break them, they just lay them on their sides and then used a lime cement to cover them, it was for a pig sty.
I was looking to check The video of The cob house being built but then I was so taken with The cool music I sort of drifted off nicely and never came back to It...
@@70wolfnipplechips41 I really enjoyed it. Someone said it was a loose interpretation of "old number7". I have never heard of it .By whom? Where can I find it?
Thank you for sharing. Love the Natural Idea. I believe we need to get back to basics. I love the music as well. May I have the Music title or Playlist.
Thanks for the vid. It looks like you had trouble getting the back wall plumb. I like the drainage idea with the glass. More of a hybrid though isn't it? Earthbag foundation, cob wall, strawbale where needed. How old is the place now? Have you had any trouble with deterioration near the roof.
How have the strawbales held up? I'm assuming they were baled on highest compression setting. Any shifting in structure, due to shrinkage/compression of bales?
Ah! Only in a matter of time you will become an expert...if you love it! I've become an expert in Portuguese, at least compared to most gringos, and can teach it to Americans. I love it, so I have become an expert. Now I'm working on Swahili. Do what you love!
@@svetlanikolova7673 Excuse me!!!! I live in a 17 foot Vintage Travel Trailer!!! I know SMALL... BUT... when someone is Making something from scratch for it to be sooooo small. They could have made it a little bigger... because they have the right for size... just saying.
Really cool, man! I like the roof. I wish you would have used some of those bottles to make a really great mural-like window, though!whatever, man, live it!
Hmm earthen bags plus hay bales... but was it plumbed/wired? I don’t see any evidence of that... i want to build with cob without forsaking electricity and running water lol. Did I miss it? I mean I see an outlet at 5:42 but..... how were the wires put in the wall to start?
Judging from the photos, it's a hybrid structure: earth bag base, with strawbales and cob on top. Strawbales were put in along the more linear "straight" wall areas and is also is a good time saver as it fills in large areas quickly (since cob is very time-consuming to make), and then you have the cob which is good for the curved walls areas (since you can sculpt cob in any shape you like).
I just have one question: where do you find all this hay and mud? If I wanted to build a house like this, is it possible to find these materials for free?
Location matters with pricing. If you're far away from heavy farming and agricultural areas, it'll cost way more than if you lived next to a farmer that sells it.
