https://youtu.be/5fe3rP92hjYWhy aren’t more people just building their own homes for $300? The story on why they tried to outlaw this building method in order to raise profits is fucking absurd.
>>2981043I dont want to watch any yt vids. Gotta quick rundown instead?
>>2981055>qrdBasically 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 sandFormed 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.
>>2981043>buikd from unvitrified mud blocks>house melts in 1st rainstorm who could have predicted this?
>>2981058In 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.
>>2981043>>2981056>>2981060Here 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.
>>2981065And 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?
>>2981056>no rhubarbWhat OP thinks a construction site looks like.
>>2981058>cook the clay>put it on the roofWow...
>>2981063That'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.
>>2981065JFCMojave 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.
>>2981065WTF? I can't believe a person made this map and then shared it on the Internet.>>2981079Yes.
>>2981043because people typically live where there's trees and water not middle of nowhere desertnot that hard to figure out
>>2981043>>2981056>outlawed>loopholeIt literally has its own appendix in the code, moron.https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IRC2024V2.0/appendix-bk-cob-construction-monolithic-adobe
