Grand Designs Full Episode | Islington | Season 1 Episode 7

Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth tries to build a house out of sandbags and straw in Islington.
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[@cathypickard4615]

In the south west of the US, they seal the hat bales in mud to create Adobe houses.

[@PaulJHershey1]

What you are writing about in the US Southwest are straw bale homes. Adobe houses are made from Mud/clay bricks made by combining that mud/clay (and likely rarer these days: manure from field grazing livestock) with cut straw, and dried grasses, placing it all in a mold, then demolding the bricks and allowing them to sun-dry. They are then used as building blocks for walls and other structures in the building. Bale homes use full or cut bales to fill in the voids between a superstructure of wood, steel, or stone - or some combination. Bale and Adobe buildings are not completely different due to the materials utilized but there are differences in how those materials are brought together.

[@maryhenri3254]

Environmentally friendly until, that is, it is saturated with toxic pesticides.

[@bjbrown]

Its an ugly building and I wonder about resale. They say it's an experimental project so where is the sustainability?

[@chloeuntrau4588]

Adobe houses exist since centuries all over the world. Plenty middleage ones in Europe still standing. Not that experimental!

[@jonkersvideos]

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