Groundwork Episode 1 - Building With Cob 

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Unbelievable Thats it Im building one

Man try the Ketogenic eating therapeutic program, might help your Parkinson's symptoms tremendously.

2:56 3 parts sand 1 part clay and 1-2 part straw. Now that is a standard formula for cob

Modern utopian dwelling! I love it!!!

Another 8 years have passed since this video was created, and I’ve still never seen a natural building being built in a normal neighborhood. Why?

i wanna do a cob build so bad, maybe a fire pit to start! thank you to everyone of yall who are doing your part to harmonize us closer to nature. even just watching this video and informing yourself and opening your mind is a huge contribution! thank you and peace

The best lil part where it's said "shake things up a lil bit" 🤣

Hilarious! The fellow originally from Mexico @ 10:04 talks about a 'mess, what a mess we have & we have have to change things'. Then the filmmaker segues in the very NEXT scene to an exterior view of different house with muscovy ducks waddling immediately around house, no doubt crapping ALL over the area. As camera scans you see innumerable plastic buckets scattered around and weedy paths and assortmemt of lumber laying around willy nilly! Geez, you cant make up such dissonance if you had a $10,000 budget. I bet that duck crap adds a wonderful atmosphere to that locale 😕

This is amazing, I grew up with family that lived in the forest, our home was a mud-hut and I worked my self away from this and became aware of concrete house building with steel etc., which I worked hard to pay for with a 30yr mortgage. I worked at the Bank and so money was available and I now have a 2 storey building and I am still building. Now I want to go back and build a mud-hut that was my childhood days with freedom that we have. I love the coziness and the earth. Nice.

Maybe a more accurate title would be, "Philosophies behind using cob as building material" instead of the current one. Judging from another comment, I wasn't the only one misled.

12:56 Isn’t this a crop circle design?

Those were our homes in kenya but they call us poor People

Everything is a full mind body experience 🙃

Its 2023 now, how the house doing?

Shake a tail feather 0:51

why do those all building seem to have low height of walls even when buildings are two-storage?

Thanks for posting this video.

These ppl have similar mentality as me. How to find my tribe so we can build this?

THIS CHANGED MY LIFE THANKS!!! I KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO NOW

My grandmother used to live in a house just like this one up until the early 90s - made of cob and built in a south indian, traditional Tamil way. Then came this thing called “modernization” and everyone started building with concrete, plastic and other nonsense. The result is what you see today - most cities in India are an unmanaged concrete mess.

I love it great work or art

Every one in my family are just plain impressed with me. I'm 67. I just have 0 money lol and my dirt is free and so is the hay because it grew in the lot next to me by accident. And my dirt has the perfect amount of sand clay!! I'm doing this alone however over lath made of vástago stems from palm. It's an experiment so far. And so far is looking good!

Won't it all tumble down in an earthquake if the entire structure is supported only by the cob?

how much does it cost please?

Just stunning! We want to build one of these for guests!

I am desperate to build one but need help with how to start n some guidance of how to do it. Would be grateful if I could be put on the right track to progress

Building with cob... not demonstrated in this video....

I'm hoping to build one of these someday ! !

beautiful!

In which season should this be done? I live in South Central US, and I hoping through fall and winter. Digging trenches (footings?) now.

Beautiful homes

The system DOES work, but for only profit. It doesn't meet the criteria that the home-owner really wants in the long term. It only provides a quick path to profit.

it feels like our indian ancestors all knowledge has been taken by other countries & we indians only never understood the value of our ancestors knowledge of building cob house , living simple life & eating simple organic food & their ancient learning in every manner that was kind to each & every animals .. It’s all was with us but thn we called muddy people by thn & now these people are genius. I’m really feeling so sorry for ourselves that we didn’t care their value, their approach of life & their view on everything that has purpose to live an completely organized organic life but we’re thankful to them that they left us legacy & we had our ancestors who built the lifestyle that was always encouraging entirely earthly values. I still remember my grandparents cob buildings in my village,they are still standing since 100s of yrs ..As children we lived there, played there .. cob houses were not only in my village but everywhere in indian villages we had cob houses but we were called villagers, muddy people.. should our Indian ancestors not deserve an recognization, i just question?

I lived in an old adobe house in Mesa AZ. The walls were thick and stored the day's heat in summer where the AC would work overtime during late evenings.

Soooooo many videos on building with cob are pr campaigns to build sustainably with cob. I already get it. I want to actually learn how to build the house. I don't need to be informed about a paradigm shift every time. Why not instead call this video, "Why to build with cob".

Don’t even need to build a big cob house, you can create your own tiny little hut in ze garden. 🙂

1:25 what Patrick says, really hit me hard.

Will it work in Connecticut on experience and billing bubble house I want to build a small little projects on my property I have five acres with a pain that runs through it and rebuild like a mini little town of all different kinds of Eagle house to show people will come work in Connecticut with the cold extreme weather and Rain how do I protect the mud from eroding

Amen Sista!

Why can't you build with cob something that doesn't have all those hideous curvy things, bent branches, and other messy things?

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Beautiful 🥰🌿💐❤️🏵️

Good until the bass sound started thumping.

I think I added another content which is removed just bcz i added the link of our indian cow dough houses & other stuffs i said about indian ways of going earthly values from 1000s of yrs till now how our people are still doing it .. omg .. here’s the mean people don’t wanna let us to be shown in here .. politics is here too.. 🤢

I just bought a piece of land and I’m leaving in 4 days to head there and start this does anyone know how to fill dirt bags without lifting them I was thinking I need something like a giant shop vac to fill the bags I’m older not sure how many dirt bags I can fill and lift alone

Can someone help me to find the contact of the woman who said MUD - Modern Utopian Dwelling

How do you do the ceiling?

excellent video

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I love so many of the things said in this 😊

Fuck. I get it. Tell us how. Shits sake.

How to protect cob house from termite

BASS

I wish I could get someone to come build me a house like these

Cool

What is the foundation like. Do you need one.

To much talking. Any body can talk a lot.

BTW Native American, the Pueblo people's made huge Adobe villages

It is cute and bucolic, however try having chickens and ducks in most any neighborhood and the health inspector would be on you faster than files on shite! I like the alternative building materials but for chrissakes, the vast majority of people looking to build will not have access to any of these options. Cob, straw bales, or other so-called cheap materials will be stopped to maintain that local builders and banksters can get a sweet profitable piece of the action. In other words this is for wealthy people, and not for us.

breathing house!!

Imagine grade schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges all focusing on creating a sustainable natural healthy society, in harmony with nature. Man it would be so epic what we could create.

I want to work with u guys

This is really neat. I have always wanted to build my own house and now I think I would like to seriously give cob a try. I am going to do a lot more research on this, but it makes me excited.

can I ask for a floorplan?

Can you hang shit on the wall with cob surfacing? Like pictures and posters? Or do you have to cob over a wood lathe structure to pin things to?

Who are the sad and frustrated souls giving even this video a dislike..!!!

Really great Documentary, thank you.

Is it possible to build using mud in the literal sense rather than clay? I have some difficulty finding clay where I live but can easily find mud, which contains a lot more organic material than clay. Im afraid its going to affect the stability and decompose

How does it hold up in wetter climates?

love it can't wait to build mine

when i was a child in England living on my dads farm we lived in a house made of Wiltshire chalk clay horse hair and hazlewood wattle s its like a panel of hazel branches interwoven about 4 by 8 ft that house was built in 1684 it contained a fresh water well in the kitchen an twelve plus foot wide inglenook fireplace with all the cooking devices crane like device 6 grown men could sit around the fire when it was damped down a bit the exterior walls were 5 to six feet deep at ground level tapering to 3 feet at the eaves wheat straw thached roof wich my dad redone as he was a thatcher as well as a farmer that house is still standing today and i can recall mother actually started the fire for Christmas celebrations and kept it lit burning till new year's day was over

Surely, I absolutely must build a mud house now. Living in a mud house surrounded by nature is just the thing that I want. Thanks guys for this great inspiring video.

um i thought this was going to inform me on building groundwork with cob lol

I told my brother about building with cob and he said " You want to live in a mud hut?". Lol most people don't get why this an amazing way to build your home.

Hello 👋 I am from nepal. I have beautiful land in the mountain 🏔️ above 2200 meter from the sea level where you can view panoramic mountain including mt. Everest. Seeing this natural cob house 🏡 I really like to built house . Any experience person please advise me 🙏 thank you

goals

Any one know how well cob holds up to being frozen. At 5000 ft in the Rockies that's my only concern with it.

I started vomiting ......virtue signaling ....virtue signaling .... signaling durrrrrr just give us the facts

How gorgeous I can not wait to see this come to fruition for myself and other families

I want to build a cob dog house

I wonder if there is any COB building in Newbrunswick Canada? Or can i take classes in Canada anywhere to learn this trade?

What if it gets soaked in a storm, wouldnt it melt?

Can cob be placed outside of metal siding straight up?

The part I loved and made me smile, was when he said he never signed a contract or had a firm deadline, it was gonna take as long as it took :)

This is what I want.

Does this material work for all climates, such as below zero and snow?

I want to learn more about this construction method. For example, what kind of structural loads does it have. In my region of the country tornados do happen. How would a cob wall withstand winds compared to other materials. I know the typical stick framed drywall "tents" that everyone builds around here don't do well at all. Would cob withstand winds better? It seems everyone that knows anything about it, lives in the northwest or Canada. I'm in the southeast US.

How much heating is necessary to keep one of these houses warm in winter?

The ceiling panels (10:50) struck my eye. They look like a woven basket. Can you tell me more about this product?

Did you know if you understood the power of clay you would be blown away just how amazing it really is.....

this is awesome

The system doesn't work so they have to change the system through their flat glass! Where do they cultive their flat glass?

I love how this video has been edited. Earthen homes are so intune with the real spirit of life and existence, we are indeed one with the earth and to build a home with hands and feet does indeed infuse the spirit of those who helped to build it. Earthen homes is definitely a trend I pray will continue to gain traction and the wide spread popularity it deserves.

these homes look so welcoming and warm, very beautiful

This is such an AWESOME Video. Thank you.

I would like to build a cob house in Jamaica

Can anyone teach me how to do this plsss🙏 is it even possible in a hot n humid climate like in malaysia?

Question: if I built one in Florida would it be hurricane and termite strong?

I didn’t know that Cobb walls could absorb and D absorb humidity, I thought Cobb walls would mold. Wow!