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Hi, thanks for the question. When you put clay into the tire, the clay would fall out. Even when you put tire on cross two tires you end up with salience (if the term here Is correct 😁) or just some space in the air which has no bottom. When you put cardboard there, you create bottom of this free area And no clay can fall down. Once the tire is pushed up with clay it Is so squezzed together it will hold so it does not matter if it will be wet. Furthermore, plaster will be put on the wall so no clay can fall away anyway.

thanks @@OffgridEarthship

Thank you for your information! This year we added A LOT of plants And right now the water is really nice and not muddy 😁 next year we add some floating plants as you suggest and it will be awesome 😍

@@OffgridEarthship I am learning every day about ponds, but one of the main reasons I think that a clay pond will have brown water all the time is if you put big fish in it. They stir up the bottom all the time. Little fish are OK. I recently released some big fish and am hoping they do not survive out there. The pond already has little fish in it and is quite clear and nice about half of the time. Hope this helps. Large turtles which we have seem to be OK.

You are right. It is that sometimes it costs A LOT of time unfortunatelly. Well we have to learn somewhere. Happy to help learn another people in our climate to find better way 😊

@OffgridEarthship I know I've wasted quite a bit of time working on projects that didn't end up working as I had hoped.

Thank you very much. Trying our best ☺️ Wish you great day 🍀

@OffgridEarthship Thank you.I hope your weekend was awesome.

Thank you very much! ☺️ I have hours and hours video footage from making second floor. I will post a summary of it but when i dont know. Hopefully in winter will get a hand on that 😊 The workshop is mainly for woodworking, metalworking and blacksmithing. Second floor will be our playroom - board games and guitars 😍

Thanks ☺️

@OffgridEarthship I'm working on my own off-grid ranch in West Texas. I commented on your other video about your permitculture pond it is a very good idea for anyone who is planning on self sustainability.

Well, when we arrived here, it was not clear for us that there will be condition for the pond. It took several years for this part of property to get wet so we see it is possible to fill the pond with water. But looking back it would save us a lot of pain with water to have the pond here earlier 😁

@OffgridEarthship I understand my ranch is in the Chihuahuan desert. I was not sure if my pond would have water either, but it was definitely worth a try.

Wish you a lot of luck with catching water 💧💧and on your ranch!

@OffgridEarthship Thanks, it is full of water now it's the end of the monsoon season.

Wish you luck with making it real 😍

Thank you very much 😍 i plan two more videos about water to the end of the year.

Thank you very much 😍

Thanks for the info. I did not know about that. It looks interesting, but i might pass trying that. We have so much source now to fill all big elements that it would just be ordinary little pond like we have here already and dew would definitely not be significant source. Well as i am thnnking about it more IT would make sense to use it in the highest point but we already have plans with that place. But thanks a lot i will suggest our children if they want to try And research more of it 😊

@@OffgridEarthship definitely worth reading up on if you have a lot of clay because they have been used for centuries modern liners make them easier to make you would be amazed that dew does appear even in what you think of as arid places. Any way nice to see people making efforts to help reserve what nature gifts

@@CraigsOverijse I like the idea. It's a natural way of drawing water from the atmosphere and they have made modern contraptions to do that in dryer areas where water is scarcer than wherever these people are. You could also use the idea to make a no maintenance bog if you needed those kinds of plants for anything.

Hi, we have 8300m2 property. Central Europe - definitely snows here 😁

@@OffgridEarthship Thank you. I live in a tropical country but your farm definitely gave me ideas on what is possible for farm land that's less than 1 hectare. Look forward to seeing more of your content. Cheers! 👍👍👍

You are sooooo right! I hope your way turns out as beneficial for you as possible 😍

Thank you very much! Ahoy 😍

Thank you very much! Hope you enjoy your day 😊

Thank you! Great day to you!

Thanks yes it Is already in the process. It Is just the outside wall which Is uncovered. We are just two people building this And everything Is long run to finish 😁

Thank you very much! Have a great day 😊

Thanks yes that the most relevant statistics. Well, apart your own experience. We live herec for several years si we have our own observations. That Is the best way.

Orientation is just by eye with compas. Windows are 100% vertical to the ground. More important is ratio of glazed area to floor area. We are in Czech republic.

@@OffgridEarthship thank you, for the explanation ! Glazed area, means when the sun shines through the window, how much of the floor is covered ? Also that would differ based of the time of the day, no ? Approximately how much of the time did you managed to get sun in winter ? I'm from Romania, so we are in the same cliamte zone, i figure where i live it's warmer than it is there, -10 min in the winter.

Thank you very much for this comment, it warms ths heart! 💜 I think there are many many more beautiful lands than ours but we do our best to provide our children opportunities to be in contact with nature. And they are very happy that way. Thanks again and we wish you great weekend full of joy 😊

Hard to say, we do not use it here 😁 we are in Central Europe, should be zone 6a or 6b

We know exactly what are you talking about 😁

Thank you for your concern :) i usually use workboots but that time it was really hot outside.. anyway i prefer barefoot walking as much as possible :)

The floor: - on the original ground we put hydroisolation (in our area needed) - then some clay we dig up from the land, mostly clay and mixture of sand and clay - then there is layer of clay and gravel (for strengthening) - next clay and sand for level comparison. In this layer it splits up. Either we continued with the basalt stones or with earthen floor. - final is very fine sand and very fine clay. I know it sound repetive but the bottom layer is just what we dig and the most top layer is the finest what we could accomplish 😁 - then the oil and wax. The top layer is very smooth thanks the patience and japanese trowels. The wax mixture is beeswax and fermange. - basalt stones are put on layer clay and gravel. They are glued with clay and very fine gravel mixture. They come with slightly different height so each tile must be adjusted individualy. It took whole day to put down 4m2 without paving tiles. It looks so cool but the work behind that we still don't know if it is worth it 🤣The stones are holding very well and they have properties working as expected!

@@OffgridEarthship Thank you for literally ALL the details. My vote is that it was worth it, but I didn't sweat much at this end. 🙂

Yes, we are very satisfied with the results :) There are two thngs we would do differently to get this house be more efficient. Firstly is cooling which we got really wrong. We used too short tube behind the earthship and it is now working properly. Second thing are side windows - there are two and are wonderful for light and view and visually very appealing but in terms of efficiency - if they weren't there and instead was wall burried in dirt like the rest of the walls, it would protect the house more from heat loss.

@@OffgridEarthship That was extremely valuable information! That's very good to know about the windows. The lack of windows seems to be the only downfall of and earthship. Still very worth it!

Thank you very much :)

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I was following on socials the build of german earhthip which was supposed to be community center. I did not like the amount of concrete they used but I get that is was necessary. Great for them to fnish it! Hope you get to build what you want, wish you the best! :) The thing with the temperature is that it is every year slightly different but also you need to know what is the comfortable temperature for you. We do not want to go under 19°C. But we strongly believe that the temperature would not go under 15°C without heating. Firstly when it is the darkest in november/december, it is not yet the coldest temperature outside and inside could be heated by accumulated power from clay walls and floor. Secondly when it is really freezing outside, it is mostly sunny so the sun is heating. And then there are days between those two scenarios where you do not need to heat but you will not get as high temperature as you could get with the heating. Also heating with just firestove and accumulative stove will be different. Next thing, we use heating in stoves also for heating the warm water so we kind of want to heat. Another thing..it is pleasure to have fire at home, our kids love to start the fire, it is our evening routine and we love it :)

Thank you very much 😍 Jecinak is name of our earthsip. The land were we lived was historically called "na Jecinach" (czech lang). 😊

Yes, that is one of my favorite part too 😍

Thank you for your support. Well i know the video could be better but this year i will try to make it better, we have some updates here :)

Thanks. Well our house would stay at 15°C So no heating needed actually in Winter but that Is not comfortable temperature for us so that Is why we use rocket stove.

Yes it Is true. 😁 Working on it so it will light up. Thought it will not turn around, sadly 🤷🏼‍♀️

th-cam.com/users/shorts3hFOuOOl0BI?feature=share look at this 😍🌌

I do that nearly daily 😁

Thank you for your message :)

Thank you 😍 yeah it was very beautiful, we loved it 😊

Thank you 😁 it was just a quick action 😊

Hi, thank you for your comment. It brought me smile on the face. Glad to be at service with the memories 😍😍 have a wonderful day 💜

Thank you! Do you use rocket stoves? Yes the Terry Prathcett collection is important for me 😍

Hello, yes the concept is really great and is very sustainable 😍