Reinforcing my clay walls...with glass (Rescuing a 120 year old house) 

Laura I’ve been watching silently for like 6 years, but I want you to know now that you are an incredibly positive force in my life. Sounds weird because we don’t know each other but your excitement and caring make me strive to be excited and caring in my own work. Thank you for sharing your passion with us.

This year I will renovate a cottage house in the Hungarian countryside, also with natural and recycled materials. This series is so inspiring, thank you, Laura! 😇

Whispering “Geil” in the microphone made me crack so bad 😂😂

Here is a shout out to all the people helping out Laura with labor, tips, advice, technical support, funds, supplies, likes, and comments. And most of all Thank You Laura ❣️

Do not forgett to pull CAT6 network cables into the walls, before you close all up. Trust me not everything works with WIFI Nice work so far!

Liebe Laura, so schön, dass Du das altgediente und bestbewehrte Naturmaterial Lehm so liebevoll neu vorstellst. Ich durfte jüngst Altbauwände mit Kalk verspachteln und war ähnlich begeistert. Anders als bei der Verarbeitung industrieller Fertigprodukte durfte ich mich bei der Arbeit mit diesem Naturbaustoff über mein Handwerkersein hinaus als Künstler erfahren. Das Material passte sich meiner Tagesform an und ließ sich nach belieben modellieren und gestalten. Ein echter Genuß, welcher die Arbeit zu einem sinnlichen Erlebnis werden lässt. Und garantiert im Anschluss eine enorme Wohnqualität. Schön, dass Du Dir die Arbeit machst. Mögest Du ganz viel Freude mit Deinen Wänden haben und sie Dir viele weitere Inpirationen schenken. Lieber Gruß, Ulrich

(Me, a Canadian artist with 0 interest in house building myself) this is fascinating I love your videos ❤️❤️❤️

I grew up in the beautiful desert between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. My grandmother lived in a house that was part adobe. I always wanted to hang out in that part as it was quiet and temperate. This modern use of ancient materials is thrilling to see.

The moment a build goes from "This is a collection of assembled parts" to "This is the thing" is sooo satisfying.

6:34 Some other comments already said this, but that "glass mesh" is partly plastic. Despite the name, "fiberglass" is plastic reinforced with glass fibers. Even Claytec's website says that the glass mesh has a "polymer finish", and "polymer" most often means plastic.

Wow! it's the techniques from the past but modernized for better insulation and longer lasting. Brilliant. All the investment and hard work now, will bring you a warm, safe home for DECADES to come. It is such a joy to see you creating beautiy to honor the past while facing toward the future.

Thank you for shedding light on this wonderful material! In Austria, there is an association doing workshops for people wanting to learn how to do this, I did one and have been in love ever since

So satisfying watching the walls go from rough clay boards, to messy clay covered, then rolling over with the mesh and smoothing over with more clay! They're already looking so great, I can't wait to see them finished!

Omg the transition st 12.35 into Laura dusting off her hands. Felix you're so good at making the music and story go together. I was actually dancing there for a bit.

Wow! You took a lemon of a house and with a lot of hard work are turning it into a fantastic home. Each step of the way, instead of giving up, you found a solution. You definitely bring out the best in everyone you meet. It's amazing to see all the people that have come to help rescue this unique house. You are learning so many new skills and teaching them to the world. I love your attitude that you can do anything, try anything and succeed. I look forward to each video, knowing I am going to learn something new and be entertained. Thank you Laura

Walls! It feels so trivial but the joy I felt upon seeing some nearly finished walls in Liselotte is indescribable :D What a journey

Great touch having the rounded edges to the windows..

I taught myself to plaster as I renovated every house I’ve ever lived in, and it’s always an incredible change.

Laura, I hope when you finish with your house you just buy another one and this saga continues!

Laura, you are a ray of sunshine ☀️ It makes me happy to see you learn new things. The joy is so infectious.

Glad to see lower level chimney removed just in time for the work on the walls. 👍 And now real walls with no ANTS ‼

This new technology is so fascinating. I’m really enjoying watching this all come together. There is so much insulation going on that you won’t even need any heating!

I liked the walls with the clay panels installed but still showing their borders. It made it look as though you were all inside an Egyptian pyramid. Not sure how it would feel to live in one, though. Once those walls were covered and smooth, it took me to the adobe houses I've been in in New Mexico. Very cozy, strong, and inviting. So lovely!

The "cooking show" style for each step is great. It would be super cool to see how that glass mesh is made if its not actually plastic (looks like it is)

I appreciate seeing the different techniques used in other countries for building. Many make so much more sense than what I'm used to seeing in the US/Florida. The cottage is coming along nicely, I love it!

I just got from a tour of Egypt and I couldn’t help but think of you when I saw all the ancient mud bricks. The Egyptians used to build mud brick ramps to haul their sandstone and granite bricks up to build temples and raise obelisks and solid columns. After, they’d disassemble and crumble the bricks and put them in fields for farming! They also made quick mud brick walls to surround temples in order to protect them from the Nile when it flooded annually. I love that we are still building with materials that our ancestors used over 5000 years ago!

Zero time pressure: what lovely words! For so many of us - may it be about a radical makeover of an old charming house or just about...our everyday lives. Your attitude to all of this is almost as amazing your skills... and goes a long way encouraging people to go after what they wish to do, go after their dreams, and try new skills. I think... I made almost the same comment some time ago 🤔. Well, it just means you're consistent in your drive for knowledge, and I'm consistent in being awed by it 😉😍👏. GOOOOOD LUCK!!!

@laurakampf how funny the face you made when smoothing the clay over the mesh 😂🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂

It’s so nice to see Laura content and enjoying herself in this project now. It’s beginning to look so beautiful!

Each video that Laura and her team created renovating Haus LL builds such confidence in me that I can do anything with the patience to allow myself the time and effort needed to

The insulation of this house is amazing.

This house is like a Russian nesting doll lol so many layers

Love the look of the walls. Not sure if it's as sustainable as plasterboard. After all gypsum is a natural abundant material, covered with paper. Paper can be manufactured in a sustainable way. Seems the whole system with the clay has a lot of manufacturing involed. The fibreglass mesh is plastic reinforced with glass. A plasterboard wall can have it's joins reinforced with paper tape.

I love the look of clay walls. You can do so many different things with them from rustic and matte to highly polished rich color! Very much looking forward to seeing the rest of the process!

The process for using this material is fascinating. Looking forward to seeing what the final layers look like. Great for Hasan to stop by and help, I love his videos too. Thanks for sharing!

Nice, Laura has invented ClaySMR 😊

Every modern construction use glass fiber mesh to reinforce finish wall layer.

Seeing the use of materials and the care and responsibility you take makes me wonder if this is common here in the US

I know it's likely too late now. But a cool option would be to embed a strip of metal at eye level in all the walls beneath the outer clay layers so you could later hang art magnetically!

Each room has two doors not for human circulation from room to room but for cross ventilation. The closing of the door in the cozy main room removes that cross ventilation for that and the adjacent room. The same is true of the window in the dining room.

Here in "adobeland" (aka Southwestern US) there should be a nice market for Claytec.

Find someone who looks at you the way Laura looks at clay walls 😍 10:59

Brilliant and beautiful in every way! You are so right about how lovely it will be to have the curves around the window openings. I have always admired that look in adobe houses of the American southwest. It is wonderful to see you so happy and enjoying the creative process on this home.

Laura does such a great job selling claytek, I don't even have a house and I wanna buy some

Thank you for the super positive experience on your channel. Jeu stays in such a good mood and with all your courage, yes, but then I can only say a thousand times thank you. You make the sun shine in the slightly gray spring here in Denmark🙂

Wow its looking awesome. Claytec are an amazing company.

Next bitte: Ich baue mein Haus in den US. Würde ich gern sehen, hätte ich Spaß dran. Oder wenn ein Haus erstmal zu viel ist, dann halt: Baumhaus (für die Tochter und euch) Cabin Da wird es doch echt so viele Projekte geben, über die du auch neue, coole Leute kennenlernst. Ich freu mich auf Neues aus deinem neuen Leben!

Can you burnish those walls like the Japanese do with plaster & pigment? It takes patience but the finished result is gorgeous! Might be worth doing a test.

All the rooms in your house, is going to be so cozy, i just know it 🤗😁🙏 totalt hyggeligt, as we say in Denmark 😅

They are not imperfections, it rustic ❤

geht wirklich schön weiter ! Ich will auch nochmal sagen wie schön das ist das du naturnahe Baustoffe benutzt!

I bet this materials top coat will lend itself well to gradients… just saying :p a super subtle light on bottom, even lighter on top, with a super soft/subtle fade

Love watching this build… so many things I would never do, and dont like, but its nice seeing someone else’s views

Laura...nicely done ! Though I am not a proponent of this type construction, it is entertaining to watch. Having a crew on site takes the pressure off and so much more gets done. Thanks for taking us along on this project. See you all next week. Have fun and stay safe.

This must feel incredibly awsom. I am really excited how it will turn out. My guess, it will always be fully booked

❤ Clay Walls yes🎉🎉🎉🎉

I sure wish the US would WAKE UP to these kind of building ARG!

After the next layer goes onto the wall, I believe some heavy drinking is in order. Since the entire interior is clay, I'd research tadelakt and oiled claay flooring. I know neither is traditional in Germany, but I believe they'd fit in well with the overall idea of the house.

That is really beautiful.

Richtig schön die Materialien von Claytec. Der Fortschritt kann sich sehen lassen. 😍

Omg i cant tell you how happy i am seeing you building with clay again haaaa ! I would love that people would be interested in clay and begin to build with it thanks to your videos !! 🥹 that's the best ! For houses, for humans, for life !

Your series are wonderful. I find I would like to hear more from the different people. Sometimes you offer a little interview?

I live in Australia and would love to use this amazing stuff

Loooove a RU-vid cameo 😅🤙

That process was so soothing to watch!! It's great to see the progress you're making.

I absolutely LOVE the idea of having grass, or straw, or SHELLS, omg, in the next layer. That is AMAZING. Love the rounded edges on the windows, too. I'm so jealous of your all-natural, green, amazing house. I would do this myself, 100%, if i had the money (and the time and so many friends to help. :D ) Delightful!

This was so satisfying, Laura!

Sweet to see how the texture looks and this is basically 99% finished. Hopefully you play around with finishes. Doing a white and having some accent rooms/walls. You shouldn’t be using latex paint so then however the final coat is dyed would be cool to see the vibrant colour choices.

Those walls are going to be great, also acoustics wise!

I know you hate reading comments (and I think that is fair). But I love you and your team. Xxx

These clay building materials are the same as Kristy uses in Portugal From Scratch, just in a more standardized format. On the Portugal from Scratch RU-vid channel, you can watch Kristy make apply handfuls of a mix of local clay and straw to form walls with rounded edges and accents. Kristy and Laura would be an interesting collab to promote the use of natural building materials.

Ha it is allways lovely to see what is gling on in the house ❤❤

It's always nice to have four walls in a room. "It's like we're being watched. Like there was a wall missing in our apartment. Like there were only three walls and not a fourth wall." - Anya ...but not having a _proverbial_ fourth wall must be part of the appeal of making videos like this.

Great product and wonderful technique learned. Mahalo, from Seattle

Your house is coming along and I know it’s going to be beautiful so proud for you.Just an old man from Mississippi.

At 11:12 you describe the wall as perfectly imperfect. I agree, its beautiful!

Now don't get me wrong I find it interesting the way your building the house and what is used on walls and all that

I'm in America and would have liked to use the materials you did, I did however salvage as much as possible, I took down some walls and found the screws in the sheetrock with a magnet, chisled out screws and unscrewed them so I was able to pull down 4x8 sheets of it. All of the 2x4 boards werr also very easy to move. I could have bought new baseboards too but using a filler putty I fixed damage caused by dogs.

Every step of your house journey is so interesting and I learn so much every time I watch your videos :O (I also love your not-house related videos hehe)

At our place the yummy smell of popcorn accompanied this yummy episode! Hot popping fun all around 🍿

Brilliant!

That really is soooo cool!!

Looks amazing

Looks incredible!!

So many different types of crushed up powders become a house .. remarkable! I am not sure USA local building codes have much conception of this type of building.

Lovely result. Question: how would someone hang pictures on this type of wall? Where I live, no drywall housing - every house is built with clay brick or breeze block and we either bash in a nail or drill and put in a Fischer plug & screw. Can't see that working in those clay panels, and not drywall anchors either.

That wall work is so cool! Thank you!

Wonderful progress.

👍 It's looking good, Laura!

Wow!! The walls look great!

Insanely satisfying 🤤

Great job, Laura 👍

Awe, It’s so cool you’ve gotten to this step! Hello, from California. I love the environmental respect, RESPECT. 🤘

Loving the perfectly imperfect!

It's beautiful!!! 😍😍😍

Lehm ist einfach so toll!

Great stuff

What a transformation! This looks amazing!!

So exciting to see things coming together. Real progress. Well done to the whole team for such a cool job ! I bet you’re proud of the project now.

Looks fun