5 Reasons Not To Build With Earthbags or Hyperadobe.

The real advantage to a lot of these alternative building ideas is that a small group of people can build some kind of shelter over a period of time for nearly free.

Hello. You're the second you tuber that I've come across that thinks you move the earth bags. You place on the wall, fill and tip into place. I'm a 45 yr old women building a 15' earthbag dome by myself. Granted I'm almost as strong as a man my size, but it can be done. Bags are perfect for a solo builder as you can easily pick up where you left off. Also my bags covered in cob was barely damaged through a hour/ hour and a half of hard rain and nickle to dime size hail. I mean no disrespect, I just don't want people to be discouraged by inaccurate information. ( I'm in NM and use engineered fill mixed with my clay/ caliche soil in a cement mixer. I average 4 bags an hour. Having said all that, if I was as smart as I'd like to be, I'd do two 8' domes instead of one 15'😂 Good luck with your building ♥️

Thank you for this video. I’m a huge proponent of earthbag building but your points are 100% spot on. With a team of 4 fit people, they’re a challenge to build, and you will be exhausted at the end. I can source cheaper bags (especially for wholesale quantities of hyperadobe roll) and I am comfortable working through the process of using thermal mass effectively, but just like the design of the walls to ensure they don’t collapse, it’s a significant process and requires a lot of local conditions; not just erecting a building like can be done with other materials. While I love the method, I think so many of the failures are because people get excited without doing serious research and miss the points you explain here. Thank you for sharing these so succinctly.

That's true, most of the people don't talk about the cons. Thanks for sharing.

This is an excellent video. Very well done! As you said, not a lot of fail-states out there to learn from. Probably because there's such a tiny minority of people doing it as much as non-reporting fails. A hybrid Earthship/Hyperadobe using one of those giant dirt hills in the background would be n interesting project. Using the hills themselves to help provide thermal mass by digging out a section and looping the ventilation through part of the hill.

Really nice and compact overview of the drawbacks of this method. I think nothing beats the speed and flexibility of the frame and stick construction. It can be sturdy clean inside, easy to install any infrastructure inside etc. Yes dirt is in place and you can build with it but all at the cost of labor, flexibility and stability.

Hi Joe! Thanks for doing the research. Another great video. In AZ I feel that concrete walls are best due to the temperatures.

We just finished a chicken coup that is 250 sqft and... 17 feet tall? Cob and plaster stick great to hyper Adobe. As for "cold in the winterr warm in the summer" is incorrect. Before the cob and plaster were put on yes, that was correct, it WAS still cooler then outside in the summer and a little warmer in the winter. However, once cob and the lime plaster was applied even when it was 20 outside it was 60 inside (no heat at all) in the summer when it was 100 it was 75ish inside. The bags were exposed for a year before cob or plaster was put on. When it rained the bags did get wet, BUT stayed hard. Yes cleats have to be used. Yes hurricane straps have to be used. And you are 100% on the labor part . 😊

Great video!

Thanks for the video. I am coming into a similar life situation as you and have considered buying some desert land and building. I have looked at the earth bag home techniques and am impressed by these methods and what they accomplish. I've considered them. But I've also arrived at some of your same conclusions, it is hard work to build one of these earthbag homes. Not sure with my health I could accomplish it. It's possible, but it is definitely hard. Also this is the first video I've come across where the cons are talked about. Haven't seen that before. And people criticizing you for criticizing the building methods just because you "haven't done it before" really do not know what they are talking about.

You could always keep thinking about it. If it was six months ago, your dome could be done and you would be healthier and more fit.

Hope the emergency gynecologist was on call. Is this a sattire ? Your so funny !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Informative

look at tiny shiny home. they are very honest with the complications and money.they also say its not cheap. but they doing it anyways.

Hey Mate, what do you think of strawbale homes?

Good video thanks to give us the info. But I disagree with you on only on one thing. building a house with earth it is not necessary any insolation, the earth adobe is the insolation. I lived for many years in an adobe house in Taos New Mexico and I know that in winter it keeps the heat inside and in summer it is cool inside. Adobe homes need no insulation.

Most of what you say is a good reason, but the falling walls issue was solved by the native americans and others by doing a better job of foundation. A lot of modern homes over the last 100 years in the US have foundation issues. There are multiple companies whose total business is around foundation repair.

There's an old structural engineer saying. Wood is forgiving, masonry is not. Meaning, wood buildings will give you years of warning before a collapse, masonry won't. It'll just fall over on you. Same thing goes for earth bags and adobe. They aren't an inherently safe or structural building method.

00:00 Строительство дома из земли Джо строит дом на своей ферме в Аризоне, используя земляные мешки для стен. Он исследует различные строительные технологии и решает не использовать земляные мешки из-за их недостатков. 01:57 Недостатки земляных мешков Земляные мешки требуют много работы, могут рушиться, не имеют изоляции и трудно прикрепить штукатурку. Стоимость земляных мешков может быть сопоставима с традиционным строительством, но требует больше работы. 03:54 Взвешивание плюсов и минусов Джо обсуждает, что строительство из земли может быть сложным и требует много работы, но также имеет свои преимущества. Он призывает зрителей взвесить все "за" и "против" и принять взвешенное решение.

"A lot of work" but remember that some people doing building work every day as full time job and they don't even have own house