We then moved to hawai i where the journey really started to take off.
Earthbag tile floor.
Which is why i wanted to share this with you so you could see what the inside of earthbag home in a cob home style could actually look like.
With earthbags for the walls and geopolymer tiles used to create both floors and roofs a building should last several generations.
The indoor temperature is about 15 degrees f 8 degrees c cooler inside than out and the temperature remains nearly constant night and day.
This week we completed the tile floor gary walled in the pantry off the kitchen.
We attended a 5 day learn to build with cob workshop in kentucky put on by disputanta cob on our honeymoon in san juan del sur nicaragua we met with austin drill of casa de tierra he suggested we read earthbag building.
I moved to florida where i met my wife carissa merceri.
It can be all of those things.
Build this earthbag home.
Poured adobe is probably the slowest drying method.
The straw bale interior.
Our earthbag roundhouse which is in a hot climate remains cool year round due in part to the earth coupled floor.
It is a hybrid design utilizing earthbags plastered with papercrete a steel prefabricated quonset style vault concrete floor and wood framed end walls.
It is the most comprehensive and detailed earthbag home building of its kind and we are making it an even more comprehensive earth home construction guide with our crowdfunding campaign and the building of the one community complete earthbag village.
Designed for the mountains this vacation chalet has a large window wall and deck facing the mountain view.
Earth floors tend to get lumped together as one type of floor.
Kitchen bathroom earthbag addition ep37.
The tools tricks and techniques.
But don t think that an earthbag house can t be less expensive to build earth friendly and gorgeous on the inside.
Garen and ellie are off to the ski resort later to be joined by shae.
Complete tile floor cabinet doors walled up pantry.
Of usable floor area on two stories.
There is potentially about 900 s f.