Man Builds 2 Earth Dome Cabins for Less than $10,000 (Pictures)
Natural Society
Are you interested in exploring alternative means of sustainable living, but don’t think it can be done? Though not as common as it should be, many individuals choose to live off-the-grid and rely on themselves by collecting rainwater, planting gardens, using alternative energy, and more. People are even building their own little ‘Earth done’ houses. Want to see what I’m talking about? Check out these pictures and video below.
Evolving from historic military bunker construction techniques, Earthbag building is a relatively inexpensive method of construction that uses limited resources at a low cost. The technique uses natural materials (usually local), such as sturdy stacks filled with inorganic material. Subsoil that contains enough clay to become cohesive when tamped, gravel, sand, or volcanic rock are common materials used for Earthbag building.
Construction starts with a trench to the subsoil and is followed by a filling with cobble stones or gravel. Bags or tubes filled with gravel can then be placed inside the trench to provide a water-resistant foundation. Popular bags include Polypropylene (the ones used to transport for rice and other grains) due to low cost and resistance to water damage, rot, and insects.
With the artistic glamour that these Earth domes provide, who wouldn’t want one of their own?
While we continue to recover from the sub prime mortgage lending crisis created by the greed of central banks, people everywhere are looking for industrious ways to live without a mortgage at all, or at least afford housing in a more sustainable vein. This becomes even more true, on another level, when you learn that the government tries hard to disallow free, sustainable living.
One Florida woman has gone head to head with a local judge who has declared her efforts to live off the grid illegal and in violation of local and international code ordinances. Similarly, a Florida couple has had to challenge the state when they were told they would be fined $500 simply for having a vegetable garden on property they owned for over 20 years.
It might be time to rely a bit less on others, and more on ourselves.
Source: http://naturalsociety.com/man-builds-2-earth-dome-cabins-less-10000-pictures/
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i love stuff like this, thanks for posting.
A Philippine company is making what they call waffle boxes. It is a steel reinforced 3 meters by 6.75 meter concrete box. I am thinking of building a home using them.
http://sibonga.com/construction-blog/
That is so awesome! It is true almost everywhere there are county regulations that can mess with your project.
Best to find a piece of property without rules and regs.
you can do what you like unless you use a legal name, then you are subject to all their laws.
The PE bags are great, and you can bulk-buy them online if you search for ‘bulk sand bags’. A thousand of them is around $800 (to make a 1500 sq. ft. home, it would take about 2,000, or about $1,600 worth of them). Then, you just chicken-wire the outside and stucco like a conventional stucco home.
Great video of this earthbag system being built it on YT, and the guys did it in Alaska. Got to admit, filling the bags with sand would result in a super-insulated home when completed. Great way to portable-pack a cabin into a remote site, too (enough for a smaller home would weigh less than 100-lbs). So a saw, shovel and enough time, and you could easily build on-site.
1500 sq ft is GIANT comparatively…the photo and house shown is about 400 sq ‘…You can build a comfortable 2 room house ( separate room for bathroom) with kitchen with stove and fridge in about 300 sq’ …16X16
You can Craigslist a used RV for 1/10th what he built this house for too, I was just saying that you can make a ‘home that actually has indoor plumbing’ from such a concept, in a size you may be familiar with, for a very affordable sum.
Hey, if you want sardine can, you can get them for free at the landfill, why are you reading this article?
See, this is EXACTLY why TPTB fight ‘new agers’ on topics like this, and why most who WOULD consider such a home stop considering it. The moment you say 300-sq.ft. and don’t have a kitchen or bathroom, you flag TPTB that you aren’t to codes, and you say to the ‘average guy’ that they will be cooking in the rain, and going into the snow barefoot to use the bathroom.
You effectively shoot yourself (and your cause) in both feet, and then sit there, deer-in-headlights look, trying to figure out why everyone else isn’t on board with you. Do you think you could be any more self-defeatist?
A small home for 2-people, with expected amenities is 625-ft (measure any apartment in the projects). A small home for 3-people is 925-ft, and the general rule is add another 275-sq ft for each additional person. This is considered ‘MINIMUM’ living requirements in the U.S. and most of the developed world. Spaces smaller than this not only lead to clutter and hygiene problems, but more-significantly, social problems (akin to ‘Cabin Fever’). You cannot trip over another for long, before something has to give.
Now, if this is just a 2-weeks per year hunting cabin, who cares. You won’t be living there. If you are going to put your MONEY into it, you need to rethink your space requirements.
This is nothing new,they have been doing this since the 70′s and Michael Reynolds nealy lost everything fighting the TPTB to build them. To look at how good they are just type in earth ships on youtube.
Michael Reynold is one hell of a man for he has inspired countless people to build them.
Unlike most governments around the world say they want people to live like this,yet stopping them collecting water,growing there own food,the governments are a fcking joke.!!!!!!!
Yabah dabah doo
EARTHSHIPS ARE AWSOME !
Dust devil is not correct on the cost of the bags themselves and dust devil is using 1950s stats on how much space everyone needs. I’ve been living off grid for 7 years. No hygiene issues or clutter problems in my 14×16 ft cabin. I use a sunmar composting toilet housed in an out building I have running water inside my house and use solar for electricity. I have a giant porch and lots of space outside. I’ve had 6 people over at thanksgiving sitting around my table , my place is nice and snug during poor weather and it costs me the same to live for a year as it used to cost me in my 5br house per month..
Bldg with earth bags is easy, I have repaired adobe homes by using earth bags to replace bad Adobe, then stucco over them. The end result is visually the same and performs better. You can bldg a square house with earth bags and use any kind of roof structure. In my community of 2000 people almost 70 % are off grid and live in self built homes. I’ve been a commercial builder for years and I will tell you don’t listen to so called experts, they have an agenda and it’s not to get you into a mortgage free self built house that does not support local infrastructure, as in septic installers city inspectors, building permit dept, water and power companies. Not to mention the banks and lending institutions along with its nasty middle men who make a living like a parasite does.
I’m on my way In a few months to build a cabin in Alaska off grid and for myself . Sorry banks, sorry power company , sorry water company , sorry construction industry. Sorry tax man , that’s right 100 % of what I do will benefit me and me alone with one exception, the local mill which is a sole proprietorship. No taxes on the land no codes no busybody city people trying to tell me how to live and trying to figure out how to get me to contribute to thier way of life. Nope they can drown in debt and be slaves to thier jobs while I’m fishing and snow boarding and playing music hanging out with my friends as we figure out how to reverse this know nothing hopeless generation of government slaves. Good day