I really have a thing for rustic looking raw concrete structures. How hard would it be to cast your own conrete panels and somehow slab an inhabitable building together? Picrelated.
>>2860962Study the subject. To get what you want requires more than quick spoon feeding. Study precast concrete. It may be the wise choice not to cast your own but to use existing, perhaps surplus, precast parts. You can copy precast buildings which are sold in kit form. Surplus steel beams etc are worth hunting too since not everything needs to be concrete. If you do cast, study non-corroding reinforcing bar, ordering glass fiber concrete mix etc. Steel tank car hulls can be bought from railcar scrappers and make a nice inner form/spall liner you can weld to.
>>2860995Thank you for the suggestions, Anon. I was just wondering if it was realistic for someone with zero formal education regarding construction and architecture and if it would be economical in the first place or if I would be better off just buying a premade off the shelf parts?
I was thinking specifically about this.I guess I'd need to completely cast the structures from the ground up.
You'd have to ask an expert, but if it's just a small home, not bearing much weight, you might get away with a a ferrocement type of construction. just shape the mesh however you want and blast it with shotcrete, or one of the funny formulas like aircrete. If it works for crazy organic shapes, it probably works for cylinders.I hope your thread gets more replies because my dream home will (hopefully) be something similar
>>2861755>ferrocementhmm interesting. propably more realistic to achieve with minimal ressources and manpower.>my dream home will (hopefully) be something similargodspeed. I want my home to look like some fuckin spacealien station
>>2861566You can find fuckhuge steel tanks on the cheap just about anywhere. They're too large to be useful for most people, so the prices are usually cheap. Use them as forms to cast your concrete. Pic rel is a tank I hauled home that someday I would like to bury and encapsulate in concrete for a cellar. I have another even bigger tank bought at that place as well, but haven't brought it home yet. There are two more tanks there for sale as well and if I end up needing to spend some money before the end of the year to lessen my tax burden I might pick them up just for the hell of it.
>>2862008>Bury and encapsulate in concrete for a cellarHow much good would the concrete do if you already have walls from the tanks?
>>2861566that structure would be a very technical pour...you could probably do a cinder block square at best if youre asking in the first place
>>2862283It's ai.
Use LegosPros with clean T shirts and skinny arms can do it, maybe you can too!
>>2862160>How much good would the concrete do if you already have walls from the tanks?Steel rusts out underground. If you use it as an inner form and put concrete and reinforcement around it then the concrete will become the structure and the steel will just be an inner liner/form.
>>2862008Hmm. I looked into it. 20k liter container go for around 2k on my local craigslist equivalent. Question is how would I it as a form to cast solid concrete structures? Except if I just make an outer structure of concrete around the container like you are intending to do I'm not sure this is going to work.>>2863443How's that work? you glue styrofoam panels together and fill them up with concrete?
you might be able to diy but most likely you cant. like 99% chance you cant unless youre like an expirienced mexican that wouldnt try to diy a concrete home.
>>2863615>glue styrofoam panels together and fill with concreteThen a concrete render on the outside, think plastering but with a thick concrete. The styrofoam is premade for the purposeOne of these went up near my parents, I'm concerned with the bowing on the styrofoam. It just seems like a 2 story building that needs to get demo'd in 15 years.
>>2860962Best case scenario you will get the redneck parody of a concrete mass. Something between gipsies atrocities and Mordor's orcs constructions.
>>2863615 >>2864235A neighbour used these. He put it together like Lego (not sure if there was any glue involved. He stacked up the entire structure in a few days with rebar, and hired a concrete pouring service and filled it all up.Others thought the immense pressure would make these burst, but they held. The expanded polystyrene is kept after the concrete sets and acts as thermal insulation. The building still stands, and he is very satisfied with the result.
>>2863615Forget that entire post.The 2K boxes tend to be "WWT" (condemned for maritime use) due to being beat to shit with bad end door gaskets. Their bottom shape is not flat and if buried a water trap.Containers don't make great spall liners and as an experienced and successful container use no fucking way would I be stupid enough to bury one. If you must have a bunker you don't need a container to build it. Using surplus steel tanks is far wiser because their outside does not have water traps and cavities concrete won't properly fill, and because container walls are weak without reinforcement. Get surplus preferably cleaned steel storage tanks then do most of your welding and fab above ground. Military bunkers tend to differ from fantasy hugboxen in often being partially above grade for easy access. You will never build it but wagie dreams are a fun distraction. If you want just the hugbox then decorate the inside of a container and you can have your dream for less money since the view without windows will be the same.
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>>2860962concrete canvas over simple wood molds and can be reinforced with rebar/fibre and more concrete.
