The two fridges are, collectively, the same size as a normal fridge. The “his and her” comment was a lighthearted comment as it seems that the two fridges have gravitated to dairy and veggies in one.....beer and meat in the other, hence his and hers.
I'm definitely building this for my parents. I want them to live someplace they'll truly enjoy and the grandkids will have plenty awesome memories of as well as will be a great holiday for everyone who visits
Now this is an amazingly beautiful home!!! I absolutely love the organic feel, homey, and soothing beauty of it all!!! Very simplistic but yet so very interesting to see the fossils imbedded into your living space!! Wonderful use of natural resources!!!!! Art all around!!!! love it!!
Ohhh 🫶🏻Thank you both for showing the Love 💗 of All existence renewed life within your heart’s Home…. So Blissful to watch it with you both, the filmographer captured gracious energy for Love of Life ❣️🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻😎
Astounding piece of architecture, Mr. Hansen. Such good taste, which is very difficult to find nowadays. Gotta love the wooden ceilings in contrast to the rammed earth walls. Such a rustic feeling. I might be to young for one of these but one day I'm gonna help build one of these for myself! Gorgeous
Rammed earth is a great ancient concept from India in building homes and forts. Your home is so beautiful, and well done . Congrats my hearty wishes. I feel this is more of rammed concrete than rammed earth(all natural).
Just seen your channel for the first time and i am very impressed with your modern and spacious looking house. I am over in the UK and thinking of buying a property in Bulgaria and was looking at an innovative way to build a warm house for the winter months. How do you keep the house warm and what part of North America are you located ?, also how big is your house and do you have underfloor heating or electric heaters in the house ?
This house is built in eastern Ontario. It has a 2400 ft2 interior footprint. First the walls, floor and ceilings have to be insulated (minimum R40) and air sealed….that is critical. Our heating system relies on captured rainwater from the roof, stored in a buried underground cistern (3000 gallon - wish it was bigger). We have a liquid to liquid heat pump that circulates glycol through the cistern water and extracts the heat, transferring it to the in floor heat loops.. We maintain 18-20C over winter. This is the ONLY heat source for the home. From Nov-Feb, the water stored in the cistern converts to ice as the heat is extracted. If winter is particularly harsh, then entire cistern is ice. We add small pumps to circulate the water which prevents everything from freezing solid. The insulation and air sealing is critical. Last winter we lost power for seven days…..so no heat. The interior temperature of the house fell one degree in seven days. So don’t neglect the insulation/air sealing details.
@@weshanson1281Thank you for your answer. I was also interested to know about it. Which insulation material do you use for insulation? Does insulation sit in the middle of the wall ?
Such an amazing house... The most beautiful rammed earth I've seen... congrats!! I would like to know how is the house now? Any maintenance needed? Problems with wall cracks?
The problem with living in a Rammed Earth house is that we can now no longer accept living in any other home…. It’s performed exactly as anticipated. We added solar PV this year further reducing the energy footprint. There are no cracks in the RE at all and the walls continue to look more than amazing depending on time of day/year.
Don’t listen to that guy saying 500$ per sqft, rammed earth homes cost 175$ per sqft on average, and I believe a rammed earth cooperation in Phoenix have gotten down to 100$ per sqft, these homes are cheap
Max Young actually it’s six and yes, insulation is the star of the show. However, unlike traditional homes, this insulation isn’t being taken to the landfill site every time the house is renovated.
Rammed Earth walls usually 24 inches wide, it can be less but than it's hard to work into the formwork. The rigid foam insulation is used and embedded while you ramming the wall
Wes, please provide the name of the contractor/company with whom you worked on this gorgeous build. Also, did you general the project yourself or have an architect lead it? Thanks.
Black Dog Blue hi, the contractor (rammed earth) was Aerecura Rammed Earth Builders located in Castleton ON. I was the GC for the build and did all the interior work.
is this type of house good for a tropic country like the philippines? we only have rainy and sunny season here, and it feels like this kind of home isn't suitable for floods and typhoons?
Wes....do you have an interior section of foam in the rammed earth?. Do you have heat changes in summer/winter in the house? What is your roof made out of? CCC-Texas
Yes, the wall cross section is 6 inches RE, 6 inches of polyiso foam and an eight inch interior RE wythe. We live in a cold climate, the heating costs with straight RE would be outrageous. There are many RE homes in Arizona and my understanding is they are not insulated, the benefits of warm climate. We have no AC and on humid summer days the house is noticeably cooler when entering the house from outdoors. The only uncomfortable time is 3-4 hours after sunset on those hot, humid days because the RE releases the heat accumulated during the day. Generally , at 30 C outdoor temperature w 100% humidity, the interior temperature is typically 22 C. I n the winter, our heating costs are roughly $100-$150 a month, straight electricity. At -25 Celsius, the heat pump struggles but the internal temperature rarely dips below 20C. Interestingly, the more people in the house, the warmer it is. So at Christmas, the extra family makes the house a degree or two warmer due simply to body heat as we focused on sealing all air gaps in and out of the house during construction.
Oh, as to the roof, we went with a steel roof for the simple fact that we harvest rainwater off the roof. We considered a green roof, to reduce the heat during summer but the rainwater collection won out.
Hagai Mel yes, we heat using a water to water heat pump. The heat is collected from rainwater which we capture in a cistern buried behind the house. We have an electric hot water tank augmenting the heat pump and acting as an emergency heat source.
I love the lines on the walls! Very cool look and a good story. Rammed earth walls do work well in New Mexico with hot days and cool nights but in Canada's constant cold winter weather I can't see rammed earth as providing any insulation at all. If this is an insulated rammed earth house it's not very sustainable at all. Actually even calling it rammed earth is a stretch, portland cement, gravel and soil make concrete, not rammed earth. How about some answers? The total cost of the house? Time to complete? Size of AC system? Monthly kwh used? Once we have that info we can determine how sustainable it is.
Rick Parker To answer your questions. The cost of the house was about $500 per sq foot of living space but a fair portion of that is related to finish choices, particularly the kitchen and bath areas. The time to complete was, essentially two years, largely because once the building envelope was complete, we did all the interior work ourselves. We also took six months off and suffered significant delays waiting for the concrete floor to be poured and polished. The exterior building envelop took eight months to complete, about four for the Rammed Earth walls, the rest on a fairly relaxed schedule. There is no air conditioner. There is no need. Summertime temperature rarely hits 24C and the HRV is sufficient to cool the house at night. The energy costs are $125 a month in summer, $250 a month in winter. Energy demand is primarily related to domestic water (well) and hot water. Total energy use is about 60% of what a typical stick built home uses based on ON averages. I don’t really worry about it. There is no furnace, no wood stove, no AC. Heat is from a water to water heat pump that cycles glycol through a buried cistern behind the house which is filled with rainwater captured from the roof. The winter electrical cost is largely from the circulation pumps for the in floor heat. Heat is turned on in November and shut off in March. In the fall and spring, the passive solar is the primary heat source.The cistern water is used for irrigation in summer. Yes, the walls and floor are insulated, at about R40. The ceiling is dense pack cellulose at R80. There is only 5% Portland cement in the mix. It’s definitely not concrete. Concrete is...well concrete. It’s ugly but easy. A great choice if bunkers are your thing. Anything else?
cement is the only necessity in it and its minimal. Something from like 7% or more depending on choice. Gravel is not essential. There are still earth-made buildings and walls constructed thousands of years ago that are still standing.
Concrete doesn't use soil. Concrete consists of cement (15-20%), sand, gravel, and water. Rammed Earth consists of cement (5-10%), sand, gravel, and soil (containing clay and silt). Concrete never contains any clay or silt content.
it's nice just one doubt that if the brick is not baked or cooked..how will it gets hard enough to hold the weight and pressure of the whole house. ~ñamaste~
You can build without cement, but you want to add cement or other binders for tensile strength. Buildings without the binders end up crumbling in earthquakes, or dissolving in heavy rains and floods.
@@elmerkilred159 rumours and fairy tales ... if you can read, Martin Rauch wrote a book or two about the how to. Still laughing hard about the rain dissolving rammed earth ...
@@petersieben8560 I've constructed with rammed earth. I don't need to read your book. Heavy rain combined with a heavy load without stabilization equals structure failure. This is why you can't build basements and foundations out of it.
@@petersieben8560 Now you know that you have to use a stabilizer in the soil to build a stucture. BTW, your architect buddy has a video on TH-cam, and he talks about stabilizing his mix with cement, and in other applications he uses casein.
Are there any references for building a house like that online. Reason I ask is because I have had two contractor friends here in the US that are questioning the loadbearing of the wall and it’s structural integrity.
There are plenty of references, and the load-bearing/structural capabilities of the rammed earth is quite high based on many SRE contractor's works. However for each specific build you will need to have it compression tested to ensure the mix's capabilities.
As with many custom designed homes, a structural engineer has to approve the drawings. The best reference to RE construction is Tim Krahn’s book, Essential Rammed Earth Construction which can be purchased online.
@@rogueskywalker7649 1:25 you can see that the big shell was placed exactly on top of the last compacted partition, and placed right up to the framework, not outside it like you say, but nice and flush with the framework so it'd be flush with the finished wall. then most likely the earth mixture was added around it and compacted carefully so as not to damage it (they might have added a bit of cement behind it to hold it in place - that's what I'd consider doing if I had doubts that it's going to stick well). It looks relatively simple to do if you're carefully compacting the earth around it, no? you can also just pour some crystals and smaller shells right at the framework edge and put earth around it then compact it to solidify everything.
only thing sad is that is a luxury home, for an aging couple. imagine if home ownership wasn't a luxury, if sustainable living, or custom/artful homes weren't just the domain of the wealthy. but accessible to more people.
Technically the two fridges make it easier to find what one is looking for so lees energy lost leaving the doors open. Vegetables and Dairy on the left, meat and beer on the left. If one thinks about things, one gets it......
Thats an artifact of the lighting…..the walls actually change colour with the seasonal sun, time of day and/or what lights are on / off….Too much colour and introduce other regrets…..you dont get to do overs so neutral tones work best.
Not true. These houses are very earthquake proof when built appropriately, especially since the typical wall is no less than 2 ft thick. Walls above 8 ft high are reinforced with rebar or bamboo. They are also mixed with a 1/10 ratio of Portland Cement which stabilizes the earth, unlike indigenous homes that are made this way without the cement or rebar. They are some of the strongest structures you can hope for in a seismic area. So, if you're interested in this kind of construction and live in a seismic area, then no worries.
I appreciate the effort but having two fridges and such a massive house seems not very sustainable, especially if it is just the two of them living in such a massive house and if it isn't 100% passively heated. I think this house goes beyond meeting actual needs and all that extra money could have helped people with less. Has me reflecting on the difference between a sustainable material with a sustainable life style.
It's rammed earth. All rammed earth structures that are built today have an addition of 5% to 10% addition of Portland cement. This is the replacement for lime and animal blood that was used before the discovery of Portland cement.
Tasteless in my opinion. And using portland cement completely defies one of the best features of rammed earth: The recyclability. Still, better than using steel and sand in concrete and it seems that they love their home so, more power to them.
I love this and by the grace of GOD i will build mine in Kenya!
Good luck, I hope you do.
God with you James!
Let me know when you do and the cost to
This is my dream too, where and when God allows!
I came here after seeing a company in Ghana
The fossils in the walls...such a lovely addition. Beautiful, home. ❤
This is beautiful, but can we take a moment to acknowledge how well-spoken and comfortable in front of the camera this gentleman is?
Thanks man!
This is absolutely beautiful.
His and her fridge is so thoughtful. Wow! Allows each person truly enjoy their own things
I wonder why they stopped at two fridges? Why not two master bedrooms, or at least two separate dining tables?
I found that excessive but the house is beautiful
The two fridges are, collectively, the same size as a normal fridge. The “his and her” comment was a lighthearted comment as it seems that the two fridges have gravitated to dairy and veggies in one.....beer and meat in the other, hence his and hers.
His fridge is smaller. haha
Beautiful to see a couple so in love share a gorgeous home.
I'm definitely building this for my parents. I want them to live someplace they'll truly enjoy and the grandkids will have plenty awesome memories of as well as will be a great holiday for everyone who visits
Now this is an amazingly beautiful home!!! I absolutely love the organic feel, homey, and soothing beauty of it all!!! Very simplistic but yet so very interesting to see the fossils imbedded into your living space!! Wonderful use of natural resources!!!!! Art all around!!!! love it!!
Ohhh 🫶🏻Thank you both for showing the Love 💗 of All existence renewed life within your heart’s Home…. So Blissful to watch it with you both, the filmographer captured gracious energy for Love of Life ❣️🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻😎
This was an amazing video of a beautiful home and couple. Thank you for positing.
Woow,this is simply awesome,someday I hope to build a place like this.
Festus Apreko you won’t regret it
This is very impressive, I am designing a similar house today
Rammed earth houses are beautiful ❤️👌🏾
I love this couple.
Cheers!
I love the Malinois too!
This is really beautiful!
Unbelievably beautiful. 💕
Thank you
I build high end custom houses and your house is absolutely amazing, love it
Thanks, we are very pleased with the house.
@@weshanson1281 Is the design firm that constructed this home doing work elsewhere in Canada?
beautiful and practical
Awesome.... how i wish i could build my owe rammed earth hous.
Stunning
Magnificent home!
Astounding piece of architecture, Mr. Hansen. Such good taste, which is very difficult to find nowadays. Gotta love the wooden ceilings in contrast to the rammed earth walls. Such a rustic feeling. I might be to young for one of these but one day I'm gonna help build one of these for myself! Gorgeous
I would not mind doing this again.......it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot.....
@@weshanson1281 A true rammer!
Rammed earth is a great ancient concept from India in building homes and forts. Your home is so beautiful, and well done . Congrats my hearty wishes. I feel this is more of rammed concrete than rammed earth(all natural).
Absolutely stunning!!
The most beautiful home.
Aidan Ahaligah thanks!
Beautiful ❤
Absolutely gorgeous
let's go thanks
Gorgeous ❤
This is awesome
BEAUTIFUL!! Finished cost per sq ft??
It’s beautiful
Thanks
Rammed earth is my dream home 😍🥰🥰😍🥰
The fossils are an incredible addition.
I'm just wondering about the weight bearing and water resistance? Is it possible to make a 2nd floor?
Thanks our walls are 20 feet tall at the highest point. Two floors are absolutely possible
Just seen your channel for the first time and i am very impressed with your modern and spacious looking house. I am over in the UK and thinking of buying a property in Bulgaria and was looking at an innovative way to build a warm house for the winter months. How do you keep the house warm and what part of North America are you located ?, also how big is your house and do you have underfloor heating or electric heaters in the house ?
This house is built in eastern Ontario. It has a 2400 ft2 interior footprint. First the walls, floor and ceilings have to be insulated (minimum R40) and air sealed….that is critical. Our heating system relies on captured rainwater from the roof, stored in a buried underground cistern (3000 gallon - wish it was bigger). We have a liquid to liquid heat pump that circulates glycol through the cistern water and extracts the heat, transferring it to the in floor heat loops.. We maintain 18-20C over winter. This is the ONLY heat source for the home. From Nov-Feb, the water stored in the cistern converts to ice as the heat is extracted. If winter is particularly harsh, then entire cistern is ice. We add small pumps to circulate the water which prevents everything from freezing solid. The insulation and air sealing is critical. Last winter we lost power for seven days…..so no heat. The interior temperature of the house fell one degree in seven days. So don’t neglect the insulation/air sealing details.
@@weshanson1281Thank you for your answer. I was also interested to know about it.
Which insulation material do you use for insulation?
Does insulation sit in the middle of the wall ?
A real beauty. I wonder if the rammed earth can be polished down to a smooth reflective surface, like marble.
It can be coated with polyurethane but for me it looks much better like this
Janaka Goonasekera Thanks.
I wouldn’t want to polish the walls! That would be a lot of effort.
Such an amazing house... The most beautiful rammed earth I've seen... congrats!!
I would like to know how is the house now? Any maintenance needed? Problems with wall cracks?
The problem with living in a Rammed Earth house is that we can now no longer accept living in any other home….
It’s performed exactly as anticipated. We added solar PV this year further reducing the energy footprint. There are no cracks in the RE at all and the walls continue to look more than amazing depending on time of day/year.
Fantastic!! Many thanks for your anwers!! We just decided to build our house with rammed earth, your video inspired us. @@weshanson1281
@@gabiandraddI’m sure you will be happy with that decision.
the home is beautiful, wonder how much it cost and square footage.
R K the square footage of the living space is 2400. Cost was around $500 a square foot.
@Zaki Yusuf you can build that yourself go take course how to build with rammed earth... the price is ridiculous...
extremly expensive. Normally they are cheap.
Don’t listen to that guy saying 500$ per sqft, rammed earth homes cost 175$ per sqft on average, and I believe a rammed earth cooperation in Phoenix have gotten down to 100$ per sqft, these homes are cheap
@@realtruth1448 lol. Don't listen to the owner of the house???
Beautiful home!
Collins Githinji thanks
nobody said a word about the unsung hero of the building, 8 inches of pir foam inbetween rammed earth walls.
Max Young actually it’s six and yes, insulation is the star of the show. However, unlike traditional homes, this insulation isn’t being taken to the landfill site every time the house is renovated.
Interesting..!!
How is the insulation done?
You don't need insulation in a rammed earth home, except in the ceiling. The walls themselves are all the insulation you could ever want.
@@amdinga561 the house in biult in Canada, there is an insulation, it's inside of the wall
Rammed Earth walls usually 24 inches wide, it can be less but than it's hard to work into the formwork. The rigid foam insulation is used and embedded while you ramming the wall
His and her fridge? V cool
Who is the builder ?
Aerecura Sustainable Builders
Wes, please provide the name of the contractor/company with whom you worked on this gorgeous build. Also, did you general the project yourself or have an architect lead it? Thanks.
Black Dog Blue hi, the contractor (rammed earth) was Aerecura Rammed Earth Builders located in Castleton ON. I was the GC for the build and did all the interior work.
@@weshanson1281 well congratulations, the design is delightful (gotta love those walls) and the master bed and bath are just jaw-dropping!
is this type of house good for a tropic country like the philippines? we only have rainy and sunny season here, and it feels like this kind of home isn't suitable for floods and typhoons?
Wes....do you have an interior section of foam in the rammed earth?. Do you have heat changes in summer/winter in the house? What is your roof made out of? CCC-Texas
Yes, the wall cross section is 6 inches RE, 6 inches of polyiso foam and an eight inch interior RE wythe. We live in a cold climate, the heating costs with straight RE would be outrageous. There are many RE homes in Arizona and my understanding is they are not insulated, the benefits of warm climate. We have no AC and on humid summer days the house is noticeably cooler when entering the house from outdoors. The only uncomfortable time is 3-4 hours after sunset on those hot, humid days because the RE releases the heat accumulated during the day. Generally , at 30 C outdoor temperature w 100% humidity, the interior temperature is typically 22 C. I n the winter, our heating costs are roughly $100-$150 a month, straight electricity. At -25 Celsius, the heat pump struggles but the internal temperature rarely dips below 20C. Interestingly, the more people in the house, the warmer it is. So at Christmas, the extra family makes the house a degree or two warmer due simply to body heat as we focused on sealing all air gaps in and out of the house during construction.
Oh, as to the roof, we went with a steel roof for the simple fact that we harvest rainwater off the roof. We considered a green roof, to reduce the heat during summer but the rainwater collection won out.
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M. Thanks
good
HI do you add heating for winter?
Hagai Mel yes, we heat using a water to water heat pump. The heat is collected from rainwater which we capture in a cistern buried behind the house. We have an electric hot water tank augmenting the heat pump and acting as an emergency heat source.
I love the lines on the walls! Very cool look and a good story. Rammed earth walls do work well in New Mexico with hot days and cool nights but in Canada's constant cold winter weather I can't see rammed earth as providing any insulation at all. If this is an insulated rammed earth house it's not very sustainable at all. Actually even calling it rammed earth is a stretch, portland cement, gravel and soil make concrete, not rammed earth.
How about some answers?
The total cost of the house?
Time to complete?
Size of AC system?
Monthly kwh used?
Once we have that info we can determine how sustainable it is.
Rick Parker
To answer your questions.
The cost of the house was about $500 per sq foot of living space but a fair portion of that is related to finish choices, particularly the kitchen and bath areas.
The time to complete was, essentially two years, largely because once the building envelope was complete, we did all the interior work ourselves. We also took six months off and suffered significant delays waiting for the concrete floor to be poured and polished. The exterior building envelop took eight months to complete, about four for the Rammed Earth walls, the rest on a fairly relaxed schedule.
There is no air conditioner. There is no need. Summertime temperature rarely hits 24C and the HRV is sufficient to cool the house at night.
The energy costs are $125 a month in summer, $250 a month in winter. Energy demand is primarily related to domestic water (well) and hot water. Total energy use is about 60% of what a typical stick built home uses based on ON averages. I don’t really worry about it. There is no furnace, no wood stove, no AC. Heat is from a water to water heat pump that cycles glycol through a buried cistern behind the house which is filled with rainwater captured from the roof. The winter electrical cost is largely from the circulation pumps for the in floor heat. Heat is turned on in November and shut off in March. In the fall and spring, the passive solar is the primary heat source.The cistern water is used for irrigation in summer.
Yes, the walls and floor are insulated, at about R40. The ceiling is dense pack cellulose at R80.
There is only 5% Portland cement in the mix. It’s definitely not concrete. Concrete is...well concrete. It’s ugly but easy. A great choice if bunkers are your thing.
Anything else?
cement is the only necessity in it and its minimal. Something from like 7% or more depending on choice. Gravel is not essential. There are still earth-made buildings and walls constructed thousands of years ago that are still standing.
Concrete doesn't use soil. Concrete consists of cement (15-20%), sand, gravel, and water. Rammed Earth consists of cement (5-10%), sand, gravel, and soil (containing clay and silt). Concrete never contains any clay or silt content.
holy money! So gorgeous though!
Is the floor in the house made of rammed earth, if not, what did you use for the floor
Floor is polished concrete
it's nice just one doubt that if the brick is not baked or cooked..how will it gets hard enough to hold the weight and pressure of the whole house.
~ñamaste~
Can I have one of this please?? it's woasome
im curious, what will happen if you pressure wash the wall?
No idea! Never considered that.
这座夯土大宅真棒👍！但是造价也太离谱了吧？
You can do it even without cement ! Look up architect Martin Rauch
You can build without cement, but you want to add cement or other binders for tensile strength. Buildings without the binders end up crumbling in earthquakes, or dissolving in heavy rains and floods.
@@elmerkilred159 rumours and fairy tales ... if you can read, Martin Rauch wrote a book or two about the how to. Still laughing hard about the rain dissolving rammed earth ...
@@petersieben8560 I've constructed with rammed earth. I don't need to read your book. Heavy rain combined with a heavy load without stabilization equals structure failure. This is why you can't build basements and foundations out of it.
@@elmerkilred159 good that you are mr iknowitall ...
@@petersieben8560 Now you know that you have to use a stabilizer in the soil to build a stucture. BTW, your architect buddy has a video on TH-cam, and he talks about stabilizing his mix with cement, and in other applications he uses casein.
Can yo send me the map of your hose it's very beautiful
Are there any references for building a house like that online. Reason I ask is because I have had two contractor friends here in the US that are questioning the loadbearing of the wall and it’s structural integrity.
There are plenty of references, and the load-bearing/structural capabilities of the rammed earth is quite high based on many SRE contractor's works. However for each specific build you will need to have it compression tested to ensure the mix's capabilities.
As with many custom designed homes, a structural engineer has to approve the drawings. The best reference to RE construction is Tim Krahn’s book, Essential Rammed Earth Construction which can be purchased online.
Wondiful house... but what about the roofing?
Lifted wood.
How were the fossils embedded while ramming? Very interesting concept
Exactly how you said it. They were placed there during the ramming with rammed earth material around it to solidify everything.
@@piotr803 I m trying to work out how they were kept on the outside of the finished wall ,but between the partition s..
@@rogueskywalker7649 1:25 you can see that the big shell was placed exactly on top of the last compacted partition, and placed right up to the framework, not outside it like you say, but nice and flush with the framework so it'd be flush with the finished wall. then most likely the earth mixture was added around it and compacted carefully so as not to damage it (they might have added a bit of cement behind it to hold it in place - that's what I'd consider doing if I had doubts that it's going to stick well). It looks relatively simple to do if you're carefully compacting the earth around it, no? you can also just pour some crystals and smaller shells right at the framework edge and put earth around it then compact it to solidify everything.
I would love to have a rammed earth house. It's so organic...but unaffordable in Australia.
It’s just dirt
Really? My understanding is that Rammed Earth is quite common in Australia!
That pivot door... Eee i dunno, I'd like to have something SOUND PROOF😂
Very nice but how is using lots of cement and water in rammed earth SUSTAINABLE.
only thing sad is that is a luxury home, for an aging couple. imagine if home ownership wasn't a luxury, if sustainable living, or custom/artful homes weren't just the domain of the wealthy. but accessible to more people.
Beautiful home but it looks for cement added.
Hi Wes, Stellar house! You did a great job. Are these floor plans available for purchase?
Kyle King thanks. No, this is a snowflake home. Of course, its always possible to copy it.
@@weshanson1281 I don't know what a "snowflake home" is but, thank you for your reply.
Kyle King a snowflake is unique....one of a kind.
Still used Cement!
Why is that a big deal?
I do what it takes to learn this and start helping people in the village .if any can help with more knowledge plaise do contact me
Beautiful house. If you ever want to build another one dirt-cheap, build it with ecoearthwalz prefab earth walls...coming soon.
Do they put insulation in the house or it just rammed earth ?
You can do both.
Modern Aliens Podcast, listen to it!
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that is cute.
Yes , the fossils from 350 YEARS AGO look very good..... 350 ? ....350 ?
I’ve already apologized for that misstatement.....all I can do.
His and her freeze..... It's sustainable living..
Technically the two fridges make it easier to find what one is looking for so lees energy lost leaving the doors open. Vegetables and Dairy on the left, meat and beer on the left. If one thinks about things, one gets it......
You should have used a whiter or redder colour theme because this gray cement style is soulless.
Thats an artifact of the lighting…..the walls actually change colour with the seasonal sun, time of day and/or what lights are on / off….Too much colour and introduce other regrets…..you dont get to do overs so neutral tones work best.
I really didn’t see a tv…
dont locate this house in a siesmic land it will crumble easily. .. aesthetic is wonderfull.
Not true. These houses are very earthquake proof when built appropriately, especially since the typical wall is no less than 2 ft thick. Walls above 8 ft high are reinforced with rebar or bamboo. They are also mixed with a 1/10 ratio of Portland Cement which stabilizes the earth, unlike indigenous homes that are made this way without the cement or rebar. They are some of the strongest structures you can hope for in a seismic area. So, if you're interested in this kind of construction and live in a seismic area, then no worries.
@@rachelshelley4779 Thanks for your input Rachel.
TyBil21 Rachel Shelly is correct! I’m not overly concerned about the home either in terms of weather, earthquakes or fire.
These walls will remain long after humanity has eloped to another solar system
@@OlllOHD lol
Ehh well from cost almost nothing to super luxury millón dollars project... Still not affordable for many peoplr
I appreciate the effort but having two fridges and such a massive house seems not very sustainable, especially if it is just the two of them living in such a massive house and if it isn't 100% passively heated.
I think this house goes beyond meeting actual needs and all that extra money could have helped people with less.
Has me reflecting on the difference between a sustainable material with a sustainable life style.
This isn't rammed earth, this is concrete made with dirt. Nice place, but it isn't rammed earth.
It's rammed earth. All rammed earth structures that are built today have an addition of 5% to 10% addition of Portland cement. This is the replacement for lime and animal blood that was used before the discovery of Portland cement.
350 year old fossils eh?
John Mayer yeah bit of a brain cramp there....
Tasteless in my opinion. And using portland cement completely defies one of the best features of rammed earth: The recyclability. Still, better than using steel and sand in concrete and it seems that they love their home so, more power to them.