>>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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>>2981043
>>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

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FYI - Adobe houses are also prevalent in Europe and especially the Balkans, especially in my region of Dobruja (Romania). Overhung rooves, a raised foundation and external coats on the walls prevent rain from eroding the adobe (or Chirpici).

The traditional way to build them is via "Clacă", where the entire community forms the bricks and then builds the house for one family voluntarily and without pay, and in turn that family does the same for other unhoused community members.

Pic rel. 3 examples within Romania

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>>2981043
dirt just melts with the rai-ACK

>>2981058
Doesn't know what a roof is.

I made a rocket stove with this and it lasted the whole summer without any problems. It's the repeated freezing-thawing that breaks it. Not an issue on walls, but generally you want a roof to cover your walls from most of the rain.

>>2981043
Gets power washed away

>>2981069
Nice

where do i get a house amount of clay for $300

>>2988893
If you live in a clay heavy region you can buy a $300 shovel and dig

>>2988905
what if i live on a rock

>>2981058
Not how that works

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>>2981056
>>7 parts clay
>>1.5 parts broken straw
>>1.5 parts sand
The straw is unnecessary according University of New Mexico Researchers.
>>2981058
What is stucco and a decent roof for $500, Alex?
>>2981067
>endless complaining about the fastest growing regions in the country
>>2986100
Traditional adobe blocks in the Southwest are sun baked, not fired. People in all sorts of climates live in these kinds of buildings. Typically, in the Southwest, appropriate local soil and water are all that are used. The soil just needs to be the right mix of loam, sand and clay types.

For anyone interested, history and how-to:
https://pubs.nmsu.edu/_g/G521/index.html

How about ferrocement? Based on the token predictor, it should be possible to create a waterproof and still reasonably vapor open outer shell. Meaning you could construct both the roof and walls out of the same material.
Not as cheap as dirt, but very low tech and a bit more solid.
>>2986720
very cool. I remember reading they had 95% private home ownership at some point.

>Mfw I live in the southwest US and stumble across this thread:

>>2986720
It's called Ćerpić in Serbian, pretty sure it's a Persian word though. Mudbricks are somewhat common throughout the Mediterranean although the house you posted in the middle is a plank house plastered with mud. My village house from the 1830s is a proper timber frame infilled with mud and straw and plastered with mud. A very sandy type of mud from the banks of the Morava that is still standing strong with barely any cracks, but in Bosnia and the southeast here they used very clay heavy mixtures because that's how the land is unless you add more sand yourself, so they had to redo the plaster coat all the time.
The secret is in the sand and straw, that's what holds it together to begin with. Straw makes it act sort of like a fasces, very hard to pull apart, which is crucial for resisting the wind. People here saying you don't need straw is just laughable lol,

I plan to build a timber frame with a light straw clay infill eventually in my village too.

>>2991714
>95% private home ownership
Total shithole indicator btw. It just means rent is too expensive for one man working alone to be able to afford to live. Trust me, I'm a Serb, you have to accept living like a jeet bugman with three roommates minimum here if you want to move out of the family home, ever. At least to some place that actually has jobs. God help you if you have a bad family. Mine is pretty much barely tolerable, my dad is a shady roadman and compulsive liar who has taught me nothing and forbids me from doing absolutely anything or learning any skills to speak of and everyone on my mother's side is a narcissistic unemployed parasite scumbag who literally hates me and my dad's guts, good thing my mother herself is dead though so we don\'t have to deal with that anymore, just cut them off a few years back.

Sorry for the blogpost, but I just tried to spell out how muh home ownership is not a reliable statistic to judge individual wealth whatsoever, quite the contrary. In the non EU Balkans houses cost 15+ average yearly salaries in areas with no sewage system, no jobs, and weekly power outages. And dystopian pillbox apartments in places with jobs cost 250k+ euro. Basically Cuba without the quaint 50s cars. Can't tell you how it is in the EU parts, but I've heard Romania is very similar - apartments in Bucharest cost more than in Dubai. Got a retarded tankie friend from Romania who feels guilty and thinks his family are oligarchs because they own property in Buicharest outskirts, seriously.

i need to build a mudhut and put solar panels on it. that would be hella sweet.

>>2981043
Traditional peasant stoves built with this are fucking killer. Thermal mass heating for days on a single load o wood if your house is insulated well enough. Practically free and automated heating, just a little bit more effort than floor heating but a lot cheaper.

>>2984401
you deserve a smack to the head