Earthbag Tile Floor

Poured adobe is probably the slowest drying method.

Earthbag tile floor. Of usable floor area on two stories. Garen and ellie are off to the ski resort later to be joined by shae. Build this earthbag home. The straw bale interior.

That s one of the main reasons i decided to list eleven different earth floor methods because most people can t or don t want to wait weeks or months. I moved to florida where i met my wife carissa merceri. Earth floors tend to get lumped together as one type of floor. There is potentially about 900 s f.

We attended a 5 day learn to build with cob workshop in kentucky put on by disputanta cob on our honeymoon in san juan del sur nicaragua we met with austin drill of casa de tierra he suggested we read earthbag building. This is an open source guide to the excavation and construction details of the footer foundation and flooring for earthbag construction domes. Kitchen bathroom earthbag addition ep37. It can be all of those things.

The only thing to ensure this would be aesthetics for an ugly building is ugly forever and is not likely to be kept around. Complete tile floor cabinet doors walled up pantry. This week we completed the tile floor gary walled in the pantry off the kitchen. Which is why i wanted to share this with you so you could see what the inside of earthbag home in a cob home style could actually look like.

It is the most comprehensive and detailed earthbag home building of its kind and we are making it an even more comprehensive earth home construction guide with our crowdfunding campaign and the building of the one community complete earthbag village. Our earthbag roundhouse which is in a hot climate remains cool year round due in part to the earth coupled floor. The indoor temperature is about 15 degrees f 8 degrees c cooler inside than out and the temperature remains nearly constant night and day. With earthbags for the walls and geopolymer tiles used to create both floors and roofs a building should last several generations.

We then moved to hawai i where the journey really started to take off. It is a hybrid design utilizing earthbags plastered with papercrete a steel prefabricated quonset style vault concrete floor and wood framed end walls.