>>2981043
I dont want to watch any yt vids.
Gotta quick rundown instead?

>>2981055
>qrd
Basically this effective building material called “Adobe” that has been employed for years since BC in Latin America/Yemen/hot climates that is incredibly cheap to produce, is efficient in regulating temperature for both hot and cool environments (think desert sunny days and freezing nights). Is simply made of a ratio (roughly)
>7 parts clay
>1.5 parts broken straw
>1.5 parts sand
Formed into brick shapes, left to cool in the sun for a week before ready to be used. The method of constructing these homes requires no insulation, no rhubarb, or virtually any other supporting materials outside of necessary supports for the roof/ceiling.

Overall costs if you can dig your own source of clay is about 0.03 cents per brick utilizing said methods.

Video goes over how regulations and organizations attempted to forbid the use of said material due to not meeting regulations, in an effort to promote construction companies wanting to sell their products for profit rather than provide the most efficient product available.

A woman found a loophole in the law that extends from Texas to the Southwest allowing her the right to build her own homes (as well as 600 other homes for others) on land that she owns.

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>>2981043
>buikd from unvitrified mud blocks
>house melts in 1st rainstorm
who could have predicted this?

>>2981058
In desert. It doesn’t happen. Just like they didn’t use adobe to build atlantis.
Also similar construction technique is common in china. Some of the oldest builings in the world were made that way.

Watched it. Never mentioned a thing about thermal performance outside of desert climates.

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>>2981043
>>2981056
>>2981060
Here is where you can build with it. That said, I don't know anyplace you can just find several tons of clay for $300. Assuming you have some on the land you are building on digging it out of the ground is going to cost you more than that. If you have to buy it and ship it to your site? Forget about it.

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>>2981065
And here is where people live. So, unless you are near Phoenix, El Paso, Albuquerque, or Salt Lake City it ain't really an option. Do you know why people generally don't live in those areas? No fucking water. Do you know what areas are currently having major fucking water issues? Places like Phoenix, Salt Lake City, etc. Do you know what places are going to have it even worse in the coming decades? And you want to build a house in those places WHY? 'Cause its fucking cheap? Fuck son, land in the fucking tundra is cheap but you don't see anyone trying to move their either do you?

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>>2981056
>no rhubarb
What OP thinks a construction site looks like.

>>2981058
>cook the clay
>put it on the roof
Wow...

>>2981063
That's because the rain washes them away before it can be tested.

I actually looked into building a native-style dwelling around here. No go. No wigwams,, says Uncle Sam.

>>2981065

JFC
Mojave in Washington/Idaho.
Great Basin near where Mojave should be.
Colorado in Texas.
Joshua Tree National Park east of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas not even listed as in a desert.
This was made by someone who's never been to the Western United States.

>>2981065
WTF? I can't believe a person made this map and then shared it on the Internet.
>>2981079
Yes.

>>2981043
because people typically live where there's trees and water not middle of nowhere desert
not that hard to figure out

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>>2981056
>outlawed
>loophole
It literally has its own appendix in the code, moron.
https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IRC2024V2.0/appendix-bk-cob-construction-monolithic-adobe

>>2981075
in places with significant rainfall long standing adobe structures are often built with thatching, bark, or vitrified tile roofs. many are built with a wooden frame elevating the structure off the ground.

its not that the material looses all its strength when in contact with a drop of water, its a somewhat gradual decline.

>>2981067
>Fuck son, land in the fucking tundra is cheap but you don't see anyone trying to move their either do you?
Yes
And, build a house out of free permafrost

>>2981058
If you fire them with clay, they resist water really well. Hell, some adobe cities are still standing from before Euros came over to the US and nobody knows who built them. Fact is building regulations are for people to raise their property values and steal houses through the legal system.

For all the people saying it will melt in the rain, that is why it is generally stuccoed over.

>>2981156
>It literally has its own appendix in the code, moron.
covered in the video, moron

>>2981060
if you lived in a desert you might know what monsoons are

>>2983494
Sir please to invest in my hyperspace data center

>>2981058
Bought a house which is about 150 years old in yurop. Added Internet. Already had water. Then we had a literal month of daily heavy rains which wrecked a lot of old houses. Mine? Not a scratch. Made from adobe. Will see if I can fix the old ass roof myself and install solar.

>if you can dig your own clay
>if you live in the desert
>if you fire the bricks
Yeah, I don't have any of those three things. How many people do?

>>2981043
No good in humid locations as they suffer from rising damp and all the protections you'd need to add to them to stop rain damage would also stop it from breathing and cause more moisture issues.

Stuff like Hempcrete is better but that suffers from not being suitable for load bearing.

>>2981056
whats the difference between this and CEB