3D-printed homes get built by robots in Texas neighbourhood
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- Work is nearing completion on the world’s largest 3D-printed neighbourhood.
Some 100 homes have been built by the robotic printers since November 2022.
The ICON Vulcan printers measure 45 feet wide and weigh 4.75 tonnes.
Concrete powder, water, sand and other additives are mixed together and pumped into the printer.
A nozzle then lays the concrete mixture layer by layer along a pre-programmed path.
The single-story 3D-printed homes take about three weeks to finish printing.
Only the walls are printed - the foundation and metal roof are installed traditionally.
The walls are designed to be resistant to water, mould, termites and extreme weather.
3D printing homes is faster, cheaper and minimises waste of construction materials, says ICON.
The 3D-printed homes at Wolf Ranch in Georgetown, Texas range from $450,000 to $600,000.
Omg, my generation might end up owning homes. WAIT, 600K?
We’re back to renting.
We can buy pre-fab tiny houses or mobile homes for 55k! WAIT most subdivisions have CCRs that don’t allow any form of affordable housing to keep us poor people out.
Back to renting
going at the current inflation rate and stagnant salary... I'd be homeless in a few years.
@shaggydawg5419 im literally hoping every year that management doesnt ask for the “triple rent income” proof. As soon as they do I’m homeless.
Its another bank scam
i will only pay 50k for this
😂
@@dancingcolibri3159*5K… so ghetto lol
Why ?
Yup and 100k for a two story one
@@dancingcolibri3159no pay from side this has nothing to do with the environment someone is shoving things 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
$450-$600k for a 3D printed house? How on earth is that economical? They are price gouging.
Yeag😅
Welcome to the real-estate market.
Compare the quality of a robot building your home versus under paid illegal immigrants. Id pay more for the robot who doesnt make mistakes.
There are many other factors besides building costs.
It is all about what the homes are selling for that in local market.
For 450k to 600k they need to go back and smooth out every ridge on every wall.
For half a mil I want smooth walls. Absolutely ridiculous.
that is what I was thinking, why is it still so expensive????
Same
450-650k?! How is this affordable?
He literally addresses this at the end. Re-watch the video.
@@B.D.F.watch the video? Who had time for that when there’s knee jerk reactions to spew
@@B.D.F. The buyer is addressing it, based on an opinion. That literally doesn't answer it.
Come to California, that’s a cheap house!
This is an emergent technology. It will get cheaper if it scales up over time.
I thought these houses were supposed to be affordable 😂
Chaka Chaka 😂😂😂😂
The house is “loud”. It needs acoustical treatment.
Just apply acoustic foam wall panels like they have in studios and it should sound much more intimate and could liven up the walls instead of just hard concrete. Overall I like the idea of
@@TheBigOne101It’s a house not a music studio and they should do it for that price not us
I enjoy TH-cam comments almost as much as the videos!
@@robertvazquez2964and it still only mitigates problem, it doesn't solve it
Maybe these are Mexican cartel built housing to wash their illegal money? On paper they sell vastly overpriced housing to each other's relatives? Like the horse breeding/ranches of a few years ago?
Modern twist on a mud hut!
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😂😂😂
Mud hut, rock hut, wood hut. All modern twists on old ideas.
@@Dracer-cz1nh😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 muddy muddy
It doesn't make sense to me either.
And those walls will look archaic very soon.
Imagine how awkward it would be to clean your wall when your wall texture is literally dozens of protruding layers.
Just use a shop vac with a floor nozzle
@@Blenzo480inside?
I mean, it’s concrete, just pressure wash it. 😂
yeah 500K is a little steep......
House made of cardbox sold for way higher
@@navyseal1689 I just looked up the listing for that area. They're not higher, unless it's bigger with more land.
Tip for that home owner if he sees this, put the wifi router in the attic, that'll fix the connection issues
Yup. Same way they do it at offices, airport etc. Top-down signal.
"Cheaper" doesn't mean a lower price for home buyers, it means more profit for the crooked contractors.
It's called business. "Crook" is someone who cheats, but if contractors will be able to sell for 10millions, they will. Everyone who could would.
Even if that was true the free market soon solves that as customers will gravitate to contractors that aren’t gouging which incentivises to prices in a way that attracts customers
@@garyyakamoto2648 "Crooks" is more accurate as contractors all band together to only sell homes for 10 million to make sure there is no less and landlords do the same with rent.
Stop slamming innovation and people who worked hard for lathe overhead, the consumers who want stuff for little to no profit for contractors are the crooked ones
Cheapest materials that they can convince the normies to buy.
not one straight smooth wall in the entire place.... no way to change the layout because it's built as one piece.... the echo in the house is insane when that guy is talking.... next to no property surrounding the house and crammed in as close as possible... and the price.... not a space i would want to live in.
Yah, but I bet he's making a fortune, mainly from grants and biden infrastructure money. He can't actually believe that anyone would really want these POS?
Why is no mentioning how uneven and inconsistent the building looks
They should at least polish the interior wall,imagine hanging something on uneven wall
cheaper and lower quality products at more inflated prices. The capitilist way of course.
Sounds like a commercial! 😂
@@thanosianthemadtitanicYou could buy a higher quality home in the same area for the same price.
@@navyseal1689😂😂😂😂😂
Those ridges are gonna need some serious dusting ;-)
We call them germ beds.
It looks horrendous
Yesssss exactly what I was thinking
How 3D become more expensive then regular homes?
Because regular American houses are built with wood.
In Florida a lot of the house have exterior walls built with concrete block. Mason crews are doing it within one or 2 days for a 3 bedroom 2 bath home. I would imagine with Mason laborers(where I am in swfl) making between 15-25 usd an hour it's probably cheaper and they do it faster than this 3d printer.
Ikr....I've been looking forward to affordable 3D printing tech for over a decade now but it's still always about how much they can squeeze out of us and I'm over it. I don't want to buy anything anymore. These companies can all go to hell where they belong.
@@mosestekper7659and wood is better 👍
The tech for this isn’t ubiquitous. The price will come down as it becomes more common
I was thinking of buying one but when they said $600k I think I’ll go back to a dumpster 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Way overpriced jeez I thought this was supposed to be cheaper??!!!
Those are big houses, not small ones. It's the cost of the land that makes it expensive
@@naisyjohns no there on even on a lot of land 500,000 for that size house is overpriced
@@dustintacohands1107 Not when compared to the average house prices of that size
@@naisyjohns I looked it up these printed houses range from 1500-2100 square feet.
the average cost of a house that size is 300,000 stop pulling things out of thin air dude
and seriously look at the lot sizes that’s like a half a acre which isn’t more than 30,000.
These houses are at least 30% higher costing than your average house roughly estimating
Maybe it's priced not only on material or build but location. How much does the land cost?@@dustintacohands1107
The echo is so loud
😂 first thing I noticed, he’s trying so hard to talk extra soft too 🤫
He’s in a hallway with hard walls, of course there’s going to be an echo. Put up some soft decorations and your sensitive ears will be fine.
@@mikerob2134😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@B.D.F.ya of course we will make sure to throw a sofa in the bathroom. I just dealt with an echo in a restaurant, there is not ALWAYS an answer and in this situation it WILL be every room in the house , u won’t get rid of those echos junior
Just like a small cave.
Bro, 3D printed homes should be way cheaper than that. It should be like 50k, not 500k. The materials and less labor would cost way less than 500k. It's doesn't make sense.
Yeah. The title said “affordable” and then $500k. That’s no cheaper than normal homes.
it's a first gen product, so it's going to be more expensive
@@kentonwu4383 Nope, they said almost a decade ago when companies started 3D printing it was going to be much cheaper while they were literally doing it. It's 2024, they want more money now so they're aligning their prices to the market
@@fortimusprimewhat is 3d printed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@IAmTheGlovenorthey do the 3d printing storm comes and throws everything away buy land only in the US thank me
The echo in that home is crazy.
Cement home is normal in other part of the world. Just put your furniture and the echos will disappear
It echo's when the space isn't filled
still expensive so what is the point?
Imagine trying to do repairs or remodeling a concrete house, absolute nightmare
Very easy, no nightmare at all. And if we had tornadoes over here, our homes don't break apart like matchsticks.
We do it in Europe, the jobs just take twice as long is all
@@xskrym No? Betcha a tornado would rip the roof right off and suck everything inside, out. But hey, the walls stood up even if the windows break out.
Not good in my area water will catch on the lips from the 3d printing and freeze and bust apart like all other concrete here
lol take a look at European houses. Concrete is best. No storm or hurricane can tear it down.
Fun fact. This system was originally designed to make the construction of homes cheaper but since it got so viral, people actually DESIRE these houses for the “story” and thus, the market price is more expensive than a normal house. It’s like half of the tiny/houses out there… the price per sqft is 1.5-3X that of a normal house. Consumers are facinating
Consumers... degrading word for farm animals who's only purpose is to work, consume, and reproduce, while waiting for the next product to consume.
The interface between the roof and the walls looks really strange. It's like the roof is a separate unit that is just dropped onto the walls.
This is horrifying
Ok, now I want to put in an electrical outlet.
Uh oh wheres the plumbing hvac and electric going😂
Wow. Gonna need to do something about the acoustics in the interior.
Less expensive????? Out on a barren prairie, far from the freeway, no trees, no water? I guess they're practicing for building on Mars.
Priced like it’s on Mars too.
@@BlurryDoggo There is only one house I would want to buy in the Georgetown area; about 10 years ago a company built houses using RASTA concrete blocks, metal insulated roofs with ridge vents, all the great stuff, not like the houses built under 50 year old codes like in Austin. Horrible houses. Most don't even have ridge vents or adequate soffit vents for pete and petra's sake!
What about hanging pictures or art?! It's a cool idea but definitely not affordable and definitely not logical at that price range
The person that figures out how to make these 10x cheaper will own this planet
Where’s the gutters though? No point in being strong walled if concentrated water in the ground is gonna cause subsidence 🤔
That is NOT ECONOMICAL. That’s charging as much as having a whole construction team on the job.
This is a perfect example of the opposite of common sense
When this stupid project started 10 years ago, it was going to be used to build single person homes that were affordable, but no, the developers realized it would be better to build much larger homes for hugely higher $/sq ft. A good idea thrown in the trash can. Better go back to SIP panel or prefab factory houses. Even a HomeDepot shed for $20k plus upgrading.
Or they’re doing what Tesla did and starting with expensive models to fund development of cheaper models.
@@B.D.F.I hope the people in the US and Canada Listen For once Just buy a land
Incredibly inefficient.
Idk, i would want the concrete reinforced as well.
This a great time to be alive. We've witnessed the beginning of so many things.
Extremely overpriced. This method should be producing homes in the sub-200K level in order to be realistic for what they are. Greed/profit is still a major component in the overall pricing being charged now.
No more construction jobs!
I like the shot of the union guys trying to look busy. "Yea it looks good from here boss!"
Those houses in that subdivision are soo close together.
that's on purpose! they're called zero lot homes. some people hate to do yard work
How are the insulation and sound treatments? It seems to echo quite a bit
No rebars?
Where do plumbing and wiring go?
It makes a nice pattern on the walls, the rounded corners are nice too, then the sloped roof ruins everything.
Half a million for a house made in a few weeks? What happened to affordable housing.
Where is the rebar / wire mesh, etc.?
How can they guarantee that the concrete won't fall apart over time?
Will there be finish work to smooth out the walls on the inside or will they install drywall or some over finish material?
Wall system for a house built in a few days. While a carpentry crew can have the walls up in 1 day.
450k? Literally what's the point, too expensive. The free market trying to "solve" a problem that it created, and the solution is just another price-gouged commodity. Joke society.
Its not bad to say this is the technologies first big commercial use. A bit rough and expensive for now but I give this a few more years before its making cleaner looking walls.
Three weeks to make what is basically a modern mud hut? A good crew can frame out a small house in 3-4 days. It's also going to be a headache when the slab settles, and the walls start cracking.
That dude they interview at the end has nothing but regret in his voice.
If its ranges in 150K or 250K for 3D Printed Houses 🏘. Thats Affordable and Economical prices. Otherwise nah uh
Texas with California prices
I thought 3d printed homes were supposed to bring the whole housing price down LOL.
it would be cheaper and faster to just set up a frame mode and just pour the cement.
Surprised wife agreed to this ?
1 floor House on a slab for $500k
Buyers are total idiots.
historically criticized disruptive technology. Will, be welcomed in 10-15 years surely
Too small for the price. It's not even a two story home 😮
I thought this was supposed to be cheaper??? Why not also smooth the walls? It looks like a half finished home marketed as a modern art piece
@1:33: It may feel like a fortress, but it sounds like a large cavern. All jokes aside, I really like it! I would have to put up some sound panels or maybe a bit of area rugs would minimise the sound. Add some colour too! Heck, can't they add powder tint to the concrete mix?
This is better than regular house. Add some furniture and home belongings- echo will go away.
Billions of dollars to Ukraine but we can't spend money and do this for our vets and homeless.
*if it's so good why rich people**don't want it?*
they are sold out so no they WANT IT
This is in Georgetown Texas in which is the fastest growing town in Texas so the prices have sky rocketed!
This is smart and cost effective!
insane futuristic technology
It’s will get better and cheaper as time passes. It’s good 👍🏿
Yes, but your forgetting the fact that Blackstone, Redfin, and other private equity firms will purchase all the houses in neighborhoods and upsell them for 150% more than their original house, effectively price gouging citizens and making millions of working class people have to shell out even more money all while having an uncomfortable concrete box to live in as a house. Do your research.
It needs to go down to around 200 K if people are going to buy this
dust....all i see is dust collection.
Isn't it supposed to be cheaper??? Also no rebar???
Brutalist meets the contemporary LOL
Not bad. The design and price can be better. I agree with what he says at 2:29 It's still new, so there is a lot of room for improvement. And we have to also consider repairment. Like if the wall get damaged, we can't fix it like the traditional wall. The biggest pros I see with using this technology is the consistency in quality and potential affordability. I feel optimistic about this. I mean the idea is good if they aim to use it for good cause and not just pure greed.
And the walls are made of concrete and not drywall. Just that makes those houses more appealing to me
Felt like living in a cave. Layered wall surfaces will definitely become a dust magnet.
It looks dope but I would never want to live in a concrete house.
Probably more accurate than contractors
amazing, please research further to build 6 to 8 story buildings by 3d printers and halve the construction costs by doing that.. South Korea needs that as soon as
I don’t know why, maybe because it’s Texas, but I envisioned Hank Hill and co watching the printing while drinking beer.
Christ......the lot spaceing is just horrible. What is that? 10ft between each home?
Its so loud in there lmao
These homes are still pricey but maybe because it’s appealing to an upscale market. I hope that 3D printing makes home buying more affordable.
THIS IS WHAT CALIFORNIA NEEDS! HOMES 🏡 THAT WILL NOT BURN!
Not feeling the price….
This is not a house. This is a shed
The reason why everything is expensive is because of innovation and technology.
hawaii needs this
Good start hope it gets better with time ^^
I really like the uniquemness
I thought they would smooth the wall after the ‘printing’, but they just painted over it 😮
I still would add some panels or drywall in some of the bedrooms, to help minimize ECHOS. But this is great, i want one!!
I wish this were truly affordable, perhaps in the future
glad to know they cost 6 times more then normal concrete and brick construction
The Ruffles House
The echoing is ridiculous!!
Just concrete😂😂😂 selling it like gold
Prices will dramatically decrease as process optimizes
Have fun cleaning the dust in each wall gap, while enjoying the cave echo. It looks bad.
As for the price, that’s laughable, regardless of location.