Northern Hyperadobe Off Grid Earthen Tiny house (Part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Part 1: A Northern Hyperadobe off-grid Tiny house built to take on all four seasons! Our leading inspiration for building with earth stemmed from the desire to expand beyond the conventional and discover what really is possible if only we take the TIME.
This particular version of an earth bag/rammed earth construction was mixed with the surrounding sandy soil along with clay in another area of the property and then stabilized with Portland cement. The walls are about 6’5” high x 13” thick making the wall a great thermal mass.
3-1/2” x 6-3/4” rough sawn timber’s have been placed as rafters for our flat roof/greenhouse floor (getting ahead of ourselves so shhh…)
This is a Cheap Build and most of the building materials are harvested as close to the land as you can get (wood is from a local sawmill, the soil from the land, and the cedar tree center post from a local friends back yard), Making this a very eco friendly build as well!
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Your home looks beautiful! Great job!
Thanks Peggy!! Slowly coming along and enjoying each process along the way.
Wow you guys! This is awesome!! Love it ...Im going to do the same here in NZ and will def refer to your vids. Thank you, many blessings ✨🙏❤
Glad you like our videos! It’s work and projects that we would be doing anyways so fun to take a little extra time to document for others to watch and learn! There will be a lot more videos to come:)
Tash!!!!! Its bibi😊
What is the adobe mixing ratio? You’re using netted bag, will it not bulges in due course? Are you giving any time intervals between the layer or rows? Please explain? How you are maintaining the center to have correct circle?
The mixing ratio evolved as we switched from a top soil with 30%+ clay 70%- with organic debris to straight sand/clay mixture half way through. Our walls went from more rubbery/living to more sandstone like after the switch. We found the best ratio was approximately 30% climates ay 70% sand with just enough Portland cement to bond the elements when set.
So for example 7 shovels sand 3 shovels clay 1/2-1 shovel Portland. It really doesn’t take much to add strength and bond the Adobe. The less Portland you use the better your thermal mass as you will be reducing the crystal formation in your Adobe building material.
The mesh netting is flexible and if I didn’t add water or use a little Portland there’s a chance it may silt out over time. When building we noticed that if you add to much water it definitely bulges on you and will leak out of the mesh. But over time it dries. To maintain form we used a laser level on the base layer and regular 4ft level to check plumb and level as we went along. As for maintaining a perfect circle, We Didn’t make one! Yes sounds sloppy but what we wanted to do was attempt to build by sight without much of a plan, to see just how simple it is to build with and to “design as you go”. We found that as long as we came back along the sides tamping with 2x4 blocks the walls stay relatively uniform and do not bulge especially after full drying is reached.
The most layers for us in a day was 2. I’m pretty certain you could keep layering with minimal dry time in between (say 1hr), as long as you don’t over wet!
Hope this answers your questions, maybe we will put another video out discussing our building methodology it’s unique that’s for sure!
Great videos.
Where abouts are y'all?
Thank you! We are in Michigan!
Do you do any foraging?
Yes we do! Did you see our most recent video? We plan to come out with more forging videos throughout the summer!
We “Finally” found morels in the forest!
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@@CampcorderOffGrid I didn't see that one. I'm a little sour being here in Maine and not being able to find Morels this year. I watch Morel Videos after the season for them ends and im not taunted by your glorious finds 😁😉 The woods provide all but that one for me but occasionally. Great job. Foraging is life. 👏👏👏
Did you get your bags from the same place tinyshinyhome does?
Yes we did! Got the product from Volm Companies and have been happy with the purchase.
Did you guys attend a workshop somewhere or just jump in without hands on experience?
We didn’t attend a workshop, we just went ahead and did it! Learned some things along the way but all in all a fairly basic process.
Music spoilt the video
I know!!! We're aware 😬
PLEASE EXPLAIN ABOUT THE SLABS LAID ON THE GROUND. WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE? GREAT VIDEO, LOVE IT GOD BLESS YOU ALL
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Great question, I’m assuming you mean the plywood with nails sticking through that we set in place on the sandbags? They are needed to help grip the sandbags and the first row of the Hyperadobe to keep it from shifting around much during the tamping process. You’ll notice in Superadobe Builds (sand bags stacked on each other) they will run courses of barbed wire to keep the bags in place after each row. Also I’ll definitely give those verses a read thank you and God Bless!
Where do you buy the bag
volmcompanies.com/products/fencing-fabrics/hyper-adobe-tube-netting there Great to work with very friendly