Building with Mud: A Continuum
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There are many ways to do all these building methods and people who specialize in them. This is just to show the difference between some of the methods and how little difference there is in the mix.
Thanks goes to my great video team, my brother Kalin Steen - videographer and graphic designer, and my mom Athena Steen - graphic designer, and text editor.
Music
State of mind by Julian Avila, extended for video.
Recipe ratios will vary greatly depending on your soil, but here they are as general reference.
Many of these mixes can also be used for things other than what's shown in the video.
Mix 1
1 clay, 1 sand, ¼ water
Uses: rammed earth, earthen-floor subfloor, earth-bag fill, earthship tire fill
Mix 2
1 clay, 1 sand, ½ straw, ½ water
Uses: cob
Mix 3
1 clay, 1 sand, ½ straw, ¾ water
Uses: adobe, plaster, mortar, earthen-floor finish layer
Mix 4
2 clay, 1 sand, 1½ straw, 1 water
Uses: wattle & daub, base-coat plaster
Mix 5
2 clay, 1 sand, 2½ straw, 1¼ water
Uses: straw-clay block, base-coat plaster
Mix 6
2 clay, 1 sand, 3½ straw, 1½ water
Uses: straw-clay infill, lighter straw-clay blocks
Clay mortar:
1 clay, 1½ sand, ¾ water
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This was possibly the most concise, informative, and watchable video on these techniques that I've seen to date. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
In India house from mud clay made brick house are made thousands years ago,
@@pundalikadagal Yes, all over the world. But they kept the brick/block shape the same, not interlocking. Why? No one questioned, just imitated without improvement.
And what is the strongest and what is the weakest of them?
What???? But he didn't even SAY anything!!!!!
@@lebanonchristian3951 well when you add calcium (eggs shells deposits crushed fired and add water to the mix fire again) then add and then fire the brick, it becomes calcified, making is resistant to water, there are also ash clay bricks, which as per the name is has furnace ash added to the clay mixture to get a stronger for defined well rounded brick
You just answered all my questions about earth building in one 5-minute video!! Awesome!!! Best earth building video I've seen in a loooooong time!!! Thanks so much!!!
Great job!!!!!
But which should be used? What are the pros and cons of each? Thx
check very fast stabil Turkish formula
@@muratgokirmak8398 What's that "Turkish formula"?
Strong resist water Turkish
ör Anatolian formula...
Holy shit this is the first video that needs to pop up when searching for info about earth building
Couldn't agree more. I have watched too many dragged out 15-20 min videos about rammed earth walls to get to here.
I'm genuinely floored by your simply badass style of video making for such an honest and important subject that more people should be excited about. You, my friend, are an ARTIST!
Wow. Very cool demonstration. For those who would prefer not to work with fractions, the following are the mix ratios converted into whole numbers:
Mix 1
4 clay, 4 sand, 1 water
Uses: rammed earth, earthen-floor subfloor, earth-bag fill, earthship tire fill
Mix 2
2 clay, 2 sand, 1 straw, 1 water
Uses: cob
Mix 3
4 clay, 4 sand, 2 straw, 3 water
Uses: adobe, plaster, mortar, earthen-floor finish layer
Mix 4
4 clay, 2 sand, 3 straw, 2 water
Uses: wattle & daub, base-coat plaster
Mix 5
8 clay, 4 sand, 10 straw, 5 water
Uses: straw-clay block, base-coat plaster
Mix 6
4 clay, 2 sand, 7 straw, 3 water
Uses: straw-clay infill, lighter straw-clay blocks
Clay mortar:
4 clay, 6 sand, 3 water
Thank for the video! It is very interesting to see. I'm born at Kazakhstan and we have house which was build same Technic by my grands after World war II. We still use this house just my parents had build extra room and joint this together with my grands house.
Nito please pay your attention for one important things, it is critical to maintain the house by white Lime paint. It will keep wall waterproof and weatherproof. I know what i say, my family living part of this house still now. So we have real live experience over 70 years.
What is white lime? The fruit?
@@outlaw1179 No it's not the fruit. Google the words lime wash or lime plaster. It was THE main wall covering building material until the invention of drywall products and inexpensive concrete in the early to mid 20th century. Essentially, once it's dry it's limestone. So in a lime wash you get a micro coating of limestone over your surface. They were using it clear back in Egyptian times and many paintings done with it are still around today. It's fascinating stuff!
@@outlaw1179 take seashells or limestone or other calcium rich material, heat till the glow in a fire I dont know how long, after this cools off separate and introduce water to burnt limestone mix in a separate container and wait. it is something along these lines.
Typically the lime layer is added first as it's the hardest & will crack more easily when stressed. Then the cob layer is added as a finish layer because cracks happen less frequently & are cheaper to patch. Slap on some white/color wash & you're good.
For waterproofing, an oil that doesn't go rancid is applied every so often to keep it water resistant in areas with a lot of exposure to water (bathrooms, kitchens (Moroccan tadelakt)).
But either way, those layers won't be preserved if the house doesn't have a good hat & good boots - deep roof overhang & a stone foundation that doesn't wick water.
Where should the coat of lime go? Are you saying it should go in the middle of the wall?
The lime coating goes on the outside and is the last, or second to last if you oil the surface, because the lime prevents mold and protects the clay wall itself.
The lime coat IS the whitewash sotosay.
Or do you mean build the wall from cob, etc, then a lime coat, then another thin layer of clay/cob to finish? So the last layer of clay would be a sort of sacrifical layer?
@@MeanOldLady
The real dirt! Hats off to the clarity and creativity! Loved the muddy hands celebrating at the end! Clay makes me feel that way!
Great video. might need the skill considering today’s real estate prices
Yeah, the real issue is the building codes. It's always been what's made housing so expensive. But they do need the building codes because contractors will rip people off if they don't have them. I just wish I could build what I want on my own property.
350 Chinese drywall manufacturers disliked this video, lol.
Please don't delete this video. Ever.
In Africa they add in fresh cow dung to the mixture.The digestive juices plus the cud make it extra strong and less likely to crack. It also is added to the smooth plastering and hair from goats or cows added instead of straw.
That is interesting to know.
Some places also use animal blood when doing earthen floors to give it a hard sheen & help it resist cracking.
bait?
@@cieme2281 hmm
It's still very common to find horse hair in the plaster in buildings in England.
after years of just viewing random diy videos, I literally signed-up for youtube just so I could subscribe to your videos
I am honored and it does make a difference thank you!
As I know, what you did is unique over the internet !
I personnaly build my house with mud in Brittany (France). I practiced almost all the techniques you described and I'm yet to find a website that would explain mud building techniques like you did. I immediately watched all your videos and that's an Amazing Job !! Please continue if you know other techniques that you can share.
For example :
How do you do, on very large walls (2 story house facade...), to keep an even look once finished ? One part will be dry when you come back with more mud and that will let a visible junction ! Specially when you are all by yourself to do all tasks (preparing and applying mud).
Witch tool do you use for rounded corners ? Outer corners are simple with trowel but it's not convenient in inner corners !
I personnaly use semi rigid plastic (cutted in ice cream pot) to tighten the small cracs while mud is drying because trovel will let iron marks on dry mud. You dont seem to have this problem ? And before plastic technology, what was used ?
Thank you for your amazing job !
Woo I love this comment! Great questions you really hit on some of the finer points here, unfortunately there's no one answer to these questions, like Plastering a big wall by yourself becomes a big puzzle piece or a game where you plan out all your movements and migrations, what you do to prepare for it like trying to make everything go slow, and knowing where you're going to break sometimes it's making that into a emphasis itself, again there's not much I can really say here besides sometimes killing the suction as much as you can from the wall beneath, that means shading, saturating the wall, or even acrylic bonder sometimes, sometimes I even start hydrating the spot where I plan to break when I start in the morning, to allow me time for lunch.
Corners is a great topic, because it's one of the most important parts it's because it's where the eye goes, I have footage for a video on Corners that I haven't made into anything yet but I'm hoping to get to soon.
I'm sure I didn't answer any of your questions but thanks for them, and feel free to ask more.
@@TheNitoProject Yes, you did answer to the main questions !! For very large surface, you have to progress as quick as possible : try not to stop and prepare everything before. If you do have to stop... we are only mortal beings after all, even us, mud workers, that fly far above the rest of humanity, everybody agrees on this ! ;-) If you really have to stop, you have to find a way to keep the break as wet as possible (shading, saturating the wall beneath...).
Thank you for your answer and keep doing what you do !
I can't wait to see your video about corners !
Mortal humans? This "person" is actually an "ant!" That's why it seemed like those walls were very small and incomplete. For an "ant' they were more than big enough.
Maintain a "wet edge"
In vietnam, we add molasses . In china, great wall add glutinous rice...
Thank you from Vietnam
Benito! Oso! Kalen! Bill! Athena! Wow, your artistry has soared! So beautiful.
This is one of the best clay educational videos! I will use these recipes when we build our first natural building. Thank you!
Short FANTASTIC concise teaching presentation & fun music.
Thank you !
Greetings from Bulgaria! Your video was a God send! I absolutely thank you so much for the techniques you showed! Now I can fix my barn and don't have to pay for something I already have for free! THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!
Well done. You show us how to do this quickly in less than 6 minutes. I look forward to trying this to make garden walls when the weather improves.
Now I know what wattle and daub is! That is so cool! I've heard that term before in books but now I can see the visual representation! Thank you!
Your are just amazing.. sure even with PHD no body would be able to present such techniques with this ease... hatts off..
My absolute new favorite TH-cam channel! Amazing seeing new creators make such quality content!
They’re all so beautiful! No child ever had ,ore fun with mudpies!
Thank you, for helping me truly appreciate the beautiful and diverse application. You inspired me in many ways… thank you!
I want a cob or hemp home now. The texture & design is brilliant plus eco-friendly. Home sweet home. 😁
Many thanks for your video. You have shown ancient building techniques with some modern help. Interesting to notice that wattle and dub buildings in Lavenham, Suffolk, England are still standing today from Tudor times. You also demonstrated how mud-brick with hay is made and that shows how hard must have been for the Israelites in ancient Egypt as described in the book of Exodus to produce the quota of bricks and go and find hay. You have illustrated not only techniques, but historical techniques which would help us to understand (with the removal of few modern tools you used) how walls were built and why some many people would have been engaged in the massive building projects of ancient civilizations. Strange how some of their buildings have survived and how some modern buildings are pulled down after 20-30years...Again thanks and hope these more enviromental techniques would be rediscovered to build buildings for various kind of use.
u the first to bring top quality to them mud videos
Simple, elegant, practical, magical! Another great Nito vid from the Canelo Project. Thanks for sharing what you do Benito and Panther! ❤️❤️❤️
As someone seeking a broad overview of how the different methods are approached, I appreciate this so much! Thank you!
This was literally the BEST 5 min I've Ever watched!! 💕
OMG, y'all, I learned life is simple from this video!
Yes ! That is very true !
Brilliant, thank you! So well presented. I live in a 400 year old wattle and daub, Black and White cottage....it has its issues but also you can see how it’s more organic, it settles a fair bit. I probably used to knock ‘mud huts’ before but I have a new found love for all this back to traditional and more eco friendly, cheap building...which also has tons of character.
Would love to try and build my own, probably a mix of those methods. I’ve seen some gorgeous cob houses. Those thick walls that can be sculpted into so many things. Love them. Do like the greenhouses on earthships too.
Our ancestors were quite clever really 😁 and far more fulfilling to do it this way minus regulation bureaucracy lol, though obviously they mean well.
I second the last comment. Wow fabulous video, so incredibly to the point. Well Done. Thank you so much. Im selfbuilding an eco home at present and this video gives me so much more confidence :-)
You minimalist, you!!!!! Oh, forgot, EXCELLENT ! Not one word was wasted !
Fabulous! You have simply condensed many ridiculously long videos by others into a few minutes. Thank you so much! The recopies below are appreciated.
Imagine that....a living wall. I LOVE this. Thank you so so very much for sharing. :)
This is definitely the best videos I've ever seen showing all the ways of earth building! well done! Thank you
Liked the second mixture. In my country one engineer found 16 types of mud of different color. He made a luxurious single storied house for himself just by these different mixture of muds. I'm really moved by the idea. And surely want to build one for myself inshaAllah.
I hope you meant 16 ways to color mud, not 16 types of mud. I only know of 5 mud formulas, 1. unstabilized. 2. 1+straw. 3. Stabilized with Portland cement 4. Stabilized with emulsified asphalt. 5. Stabilized with geopolymers.
@@1voluntaryistI assume OP meant 16 types of clay/dirt to make the mud mixture with, like how some dirt is more orange and some is more gray.
This is very clarifying for me! I was confused on what adobe bricks actually were and now I know it’s almost like cob. I had no idea there were so many methods!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, my friend, your videos are a really big help.
Greetings from Russia. Your video, like meditation, is very cool.
You just answered all my questions about building an earthern house. Thank you so much.
Your hands are an extension of your beautiful artistry...a joy to watch
This video was next level informative. Natural materials are so flexible to use as is stretching the human potential... thank you so much💯🇸🇿✊🏾
So inspirational and beautiful. Earthy and artistic. Would love to make dirt my home. Thanks so much for making this video. Hope to see more and would be awesome to see step by step builds on functional spaces.
People are so clever. If you spend your time like this your happy. Nice work and art.
What a presentation. Like a drama. Amazed
A picture saves a thousand words. Plus, the way you film small quantity in the light coloured box, just shows the mix so well. Hats off👌😎
I’ve been out there and I’ve met these guys. They have literally lived in this stuff their whole lives! It is such a “Nito-O” place to visit. I love this video. I’ve probably watched it 1000 times. 👌🏽🥰
Art is not only in the result it's also in the process. Thanks
This would make a great project for schools. Children would love it and learn something really useful.
I've had this vid in my Yt library for some time now, and it's the best intro for young students to start thinking about earth building....short, conscise and attention grabbing. I mostly use wattle & daub with homegrown willow wattling and paper in the daub. I love LCS too, and hadn't thought of sliding internal supports. We also have (UK) 'mud & stud', where it's like w&d without the weavers....you just need a drier, more strawey/fibrous mix, compressed down with a heavy forked tool then trimmed back.
Keep up the great work!
So clearly shown! Especially more of those who need pictures rather than words'. Thank you !!! From 3 moons project
That was the best video i have seen on TH-cam for the last 5 years. Great presentation and answered all my questions. Good job!
Thank you so much. Great video. I appreciate your creativity and knowledge
The music made me stick around!
Beautiful images
Congratulations 👏
I am found of mud and clay from childhood. I used to play with it forgetting to eat and drink. I still am found of it and after watching your videos I have decided that I can and will make my house with Earth 😁😊
...a workshop in minutes!..thanks!
very well shown. my favorite mud construction video
This is for me the best way to learn and that's why the best video ever on this subject🙏🏼👍🏻👍🏻
This is my favorite video in the whole world!!! Im obsessed with it. Thank you!!
Wonderful. I deeply appreciate your contribution.
Thanks for sharing
In Cameroun and African villages, building houses and structures with mud is a habit. This method of building with other methods of mud building has been practiced in Cameroon for decades if not centuries. Great to see that mud building is practiced in the rest of the world. I think it is a safer form of construction of buldings with less polution and more suitable to human health. But many things has to be done in order to make this techniques applicable to all kind of structures.
Love how u show em what's real.
Very clean and simple instructions and examples.
Neat! Thanks for giving the recipes in the description. I've been wanting to do some stuff like this around a campsite that I'm setting up in some of our woods.
Best video on earth building material mixes ever.
Absolutely fabulous video -- very informative!!! I've wondered about the differences for a long time now, and this answered all the questions. I feel much more confident in my recipe choices now!
Now that's right on. The perfect guide for any man on earth.
Love the compare and contrast if all the mediums. Also how you paired each substrate with useful construction techniques and showcased their unique uses. Thank you for making and sharing this content, great production quality!
After hours of videos this is the best by far!
Thank you Nito!
a concise account of earth walling i love it
I just put the dorodango clay left on my hands, on my face. taped lightly and it literally gave me an energizing feeling and toned my skin. plus feels smooth and smells great. Love your videos.
You are a true inspiration of rme, thank you very much.
Excellence in presentation!
You won the effectively award!
You are amazing! I want to build a house at my farm using those ingredients but no one can do it here. I am going to try to make those miniature wall and bricks using your recipe. I wish I could hire you
Righteous!! Love it..
I have a lot of roots from my garden... I'm going to try something with this theory with roots and grass.
Thanks for the inspiration.
This was so refreshing to watch
Excellent, clear presentation. Thank you!
Excellent and concise. Thanks!
What an awesome video and awesome music! Thank you!
Bravo. You are the future. Blessings Dear Brother.
This is such an amazing video Nito, Kalin and Athena! I discovered it last winter, and have learned so much from all the Nito Project videos ever since… not the least of which is the power that comes from the beauty, simplicity and accessibility you bring to your work. Have shared your channel many times over. Please keep making more. Thank you!
This was SO incredible and helpful! I am looking into natural materials for home building. No one has explained the materials as you have. Thank you!!
thank you so much . we used to make homes like this and now I WILL ALSO
Must agree with other comments on the quality of this video. Well shot and edited, very useful graphics and understandable processes. Good going.
Wonderful explanation and demo of all the possible ways to build and make. Good for builders artists and sculptors. Thanks for sparking ideas and alternatives.
I built my first house 1979, I basically lifted 700t tons of earth, ( by hand ) if not more, because three square metres of wall, weighed one ton, and took 40 bricks, To make each brick into a wall, I had to lift the material at least seven times. In my second house, I used very light ply formwork, and added about 80 mm increments of dry soil, stabilised with no more than 5% cement. This was then dampened an vibrated, to consolidate, rather than compacted. I called it the Swalllow Method after watching birds nesting, After 30 minutes, the formwork could be lifted, releasing perhaps six layers or more which was now firm enough to be self supporting., and to support the raised formwork. The lifting was reduced to about two tons per 3 sq metres. . Curved walls had added stability.Two important things I learnt: Use a plasticiser whenever you can, such as fresh cow manure.or even Bycol or detergent. The inclusion of sand and silt is crucially important. Silt: about 5 to 10%. Sand : about 30% rodyates@austraianhoney,. com.au. The biggest problem with Earth building is when people don't think about the aesthetics that require a different outcome to conventional ideas./. Mud changed my life.
Very easy explain of all ancient building techniques thanks.
rammed earth is the best looking without any doubt, and the more versatile too. great content!
Perfect, perfect, perfect... perfect and best show of earth walls... thank you
As most of or probably all the comments I think this has been one of the most simple, clear and entertaining videos I have watched on building with mud. I am new to the idea and want to try and have been searching for information on it and then just discovered your video. Well done to the team and great creative ending :)
Thank you really loads. Very informative video. I was questioning about the ratios and the various names of the mixes I've just learnt. On this. YOUR SPECIAL VIDEO. Love
I learned about building with mud but was not aware of the variations and the uses to which they are applied. Thanks for your valuable information.
That bamboo lath is really clever, I like it! :)
Your videos are amazing!! Not only is the content imformative, but your camerawork is on point. Can't wait till you post your next one!!!!
Love it! Great to see you guys carrying the work forward so beautifully. Bravo!
Dude, your channel is so cool ! Thank you for sharing all of this with us. Keep going, I want more of it ! :-D
Thank you so much for the time you took to make this beautiful and informative video and share it with us. Makes me want to try almost all of then.
Excellent video. Such construction material and practices are on widespread use in rural areas in the developing world. This can supplement construction needs in urban areas too.