Any experience with hyperadobe houses for a DIY project? I've been digging around for info on foundations and roofing. Thinking about a rubble trench foundation, but not entirely sure if that's the way to go. How hard is it to build a 2 floor? I have about a 50k budget. Possible or a pipe dream?
> Any experience with *insert jingo name here*?
That looks like a 3D printed concrete home.
It's just bags of mixed dirt and insulation. I guess it's better since the 3d printed ones are just a mold. It gets plastered over so it does not look so shitty
sorry. too busy building my ziggurat.
i see 2 types of dirt homes occuring...
1: a couple hippies con dozens of dumbfricks into building their house and they call it a "class" where they pay to work their asses off for a month
2: people taking fricking years to do it themselves
>3. Cult like families that build them so everyone lives on the same compound together.
Still, probably better off and more sane than most contemporary families.
Looks cozy. Still wondering about permits.
Build it on land you don't own so then you can walk away if caught.
IIRC, they're in the Nevada desert. Probably not much regulation there as the county has very little budget for that kind of thing and they don't want to run off the few residents they have. If they built it in the same county as Las Vegas or Reno, things might be trickier.
It doesn't seem wise to construct a house out of this stuff in one of the most seismically active states.
Earthbag construction seems like it would be a very good self-burial system if there's an earthquake, which makes everything easier for everyone.
Where more typical building regs and seismic codes apply, stuff like earthbag and adobe and strawbale construction are treated like stacked masonry and/or concrete and at a minimum will require the same kind of steel structural reinforcement, all tied together with foundations, lintel, bond beams, etc.
It's actually a good illustration of how materials in and of themselves are usually not banned outright, but have to meet minimum engineering standards...and if they aren't common materials and methods you get to pay an engineer to prove that they meet them via all kinds of testing.
So what you end up with is building the structural reinforcing framework of a poured concrete or masonry block building built to seismic standards, embedded in a less robust material that needs far more maintenence...negating most of the financial advantages of any of those alternative methods.
There are places with no Code enforcement. The issue with stuff outside mainstream in areas where Code is enforced, is it has little to no experience with other building techniques, making permission extremely difficult. Idk if having a qualified engineer sign off on it would help, but it would be the start.
>3. Cult like families that build them so everyone lives on the same compound together.
I wish my family was based enough to build a compound for all of us.
The earthquake risk around Las Vegas doesn't look too bad.
I believe the My Little Homestead people are actually in Arizona, not Nevada. the father died a few months ago. I miss him.
Yeah, sucks his cancer suddenly came back and he died so quickly, though I guess that's better than lingering on while suffering. The next generation of men now will have to take over where he left off, which is just the way of things.
They receive mail in Las Vegas, which is why I thought they are in Nevada but Arizona is not very far away so that seems reasonable. It was their rocket mass heater project that lead me to find them on YouTube. I've heard you can't get homeowners insurance with one of those in your house but doubt they're insuring earthbag houses anyway.