Ferrocement House Project - Part 7 - Framing The Armature 

We shopped around for the best deal on hardware cloth and the cheapest place we have found it was on Amazon. I'm not even kidding. Our local metal supply businesses don't carry hardware cloth for some reason and buying it from Lowe's, Home Depot or the Tractor supply is very expressive. We have the Amazon prime and do free shipping to our house out in the unincorporated county for cheaper then we can find it at a store. How crazy is that. Thanks for the feedback on the format of these videos. I am trying to be an advocate of ferrocement building and share what I know about it. The way I do it certainly isn't as fast as what I see others do online. Also I think I am using more metal then I need to. I am thinking about making a video where I look back at some construction photos of some of the other houses out here and look at how they stood up over the decades. Then compare that to what the original guidelines set out by the guy who developed the neighborhood, and then to my own work recently. I have photos of most of the houses out here and some were built with rebar on three or four foot centers and others on one foot centers. All these houses are still standing and most of them are buried. None have caved in or failed in any structural way. The biggest problem we have had out here was the failure of water proofing. I think the future of these things is to use a modern basement waterproofing membrane like a spray on for brush on type with an external insulation envelope of some sort. But I am kind of rambling here. The point is I think I might add other types of videos to the mix like you suggested in addition to the long format work videos. Make as many of these at least as I have ideas for.

Amazon. Wow. I guess my follow up question would be why the hardware cloth vs multiple layers of something like chicken wire etc? Maybe you've addressed that in another video?

I don't know why i prefer hardware cloth. I have never really even given chicken wire a try. We have one house out here that was almost only chicken wire. I should make a stand alone video for it. Bob Foote who developed the neighborhood taught that you could use one layer of hardware cloth per side or two layers of chicken wire per side. I'll use chicken wire in my next project and see if I have been missing out on anything.

Pigtail wire tool you can get it at lowes

I have been thinking about this. Ill ask a some of my Hindi speaking friends what they would charge me to translate a transcript of these videos. Hopefully I can work something out.