Ecosteps - How to build a sandbag house eco-friendly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ย. 2012
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How to build eco-friendly with sandbags. The Eco-Beam Sandbag System was developed in South Africa as a low-cost housing solution. Ecosteps provides a complete solution for green building with sand bags. Ecosteps have completed projects across South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique over the past 3 years. Visit www.ecosteps.co.za for more information. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Good job ... What is the size on the wooden pliece used for the Ecobeam?
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Good stuff guys.
my question is when i have to calculate the Bill of Quantities of such a project will the model of preambles and standard system of builders work apply?
The concept is hundreds, if not thousands of years old. The only visual change is that these are being introduce to a location that (apparently) has never seen adobe-thatched houses before. 65-percent of the homes and businesses where I live are traditional 'hay-bale' adobe dwellings. You frame the house, cut the 'square bales' in half with a bale-saw, stack them between the framing uprights, TIE THEM TOGETHER (which I did NOT see done in this bagged version, which will lead to wall warpage and sag in a few years), over-wire, then stucco (either classic 'clay' or modern 'fiberglass' stucco).
The again, in the U.S., if I were building my own house and knowing how to do it, I would simply get some 1/2" CDX plywood, a table saw with a dado blade, some 2x8's, and build my own verticals with the plywood and 2x8's (see how to make a composite joist if you don't envision it). I can frame and build a house for a few thousand dollars that will last for a century in the desert, and I don't need sandbags, or metal joist connectors.
Show some pictures or provide a link to your work. ps: the location above is Africa my man, where mud homes have been built for millenia. Thatched too. I lived in a 105 year old mud hut, thatched roof rondavel with cow dung floor for six months in the Eastern Cape, and it was sound and bloody strong (my foreman accidentally drove a small MF tractor into the wall. Some mud later, it was all patched and ready to go. No chickenwire, no dimensional lumber, and the walls were perfectly serviceable with no water ingress.
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Id love to build a house using eco-beams, except to sink it underground.
very poorly biuld homes. the bags need to enderlock. i.e. ends must not be put on end to end.
Bullshit! The lack of wire and the lack of over-lock is compensated by the wooden frames
if you say / think / type so.
clearly, you've never seen a sandbag settle, compress and sag over a few years time. They also tend to bulge inward or outward, depending on how they settle, too - so then they'll press on the chickenwire and cause a wall bulge. That's ok, though, there's a great 'repair market' to fix shoddy work like that, too. I know, In my youth, we used to have to 're-wire' junky-built houses all the time, then re-stucco them with 'decent stuff. Worst jobs were where the wall bulged, water leaked in at the gutter line, hay bales had black mold, and you ended up having to rip it all down to the frame, replace molded wood, and rebuild. Poor homeowner would have probably burned it to the ground and started over, if they knew what they were getting into first - it would have been cheaper for them. Talk trash to who you want to, but the truth is easily available if you just look up ADOBE BALE HOUSES, or 'CLASSICAL ADOBE HOUSES OF THE U.S. DESERT SOUTHWEST'.
@@skeetersaurus6249 Sure... Have you ever seen mold on sand or polypropylene? You would have to seal this house tightly and heat up to create mold. Regarding bales, in Europe you will find a lot of very old bale houses still going good. Earthbag houses are great idea, longlasting, eco and cheap.