Have you ever heard of an Earthbag home? It might seem like it's a pretty complex style of shelter but it's really not. It's pretty self-explanatory.
It's a small home constructed out of bags packed with sand and dirt. This neat video shows you just how one couple built their own earthbag home.
You'll see how in just a few months, this home was built. If you're thinking about living a more off-grid life, this home will make it a lot easier.
As you see the progress they make in building this shelter, you'll want to build your own home too!
Watch and check out how an earth bag house was built from the ground up on the next page.
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I like the idea but I have to wonder about the insulative ability of sand and dirt. Seems like it could get pretty cold.
Jimmy Lusero
Would heat well though I would think
Once heated would retain and radiate.
Look at the Hogans used by the Southwest Navajo
You cannot hammer in a nail to hang something on the wall. Plastic over time becomes brittle and the bags will deteriorate. Not a viable long term option to build a house.
If I understand correctly, the bags are mixed with some kind of adhesive so that over time they turn to stone. That way if the bag breaks its no big deal. Also, most people generally cover the outside in concrete or plaster as well.
AL Comfort
It well stop a bullet
Sorry that I find so much humor in this, because the idea is really rather clever, but earth is also called dirt, ergo, I could invite people to my “dirtbag” house. 🙂
Minecraft
Want to see do this
You can use old tires instead
Amazing. Pure genius.
Judi Pegram
Patrick James Flagg
I saw my neighbor try to build a house out of sandbags and the walls collapsed…more than once. This isn’t so easy as it looks.
Originators of the “earthbag” concept.. http://www.calearth.org
Like the earth packed tires to build the same way
labor intense
Cool video
I wouldn’t trust this at all
Trent Hanson, this is neat.
Ronald F. Cheadle Sr.
Patty Foxen-Brubacher
Three months for one small room? Bunch of dumbasses
Dennis Wohlfeil
theres no freakividceo
Can’t connect link is broken it says
how about using gabion baskets to build a house??
That looks wildly unsturdy.
Lamo. They could have made a wood floor a better roof and windows.
Steven Johnson what do you think?
What happens when the bags deteriorate from uv rays?
Travis Lukenbill
Tami Carlson Jones
Chris Shireman check this out
Plaster over bags keeps them
Safe
Used to called sodies before they bagged the dirt.
No roof.
Good for them no hurricanes there.
By the time you buy the bags and fill, then the time you spend filling and sealing you could have bought cinder blocks, filled the holes with sand or dirt and saved money and time. Bags will breakdown due to exposure of uv rays, cinder blocks wont.
Stupid
Mud and straw builds easer and stronger but still cool idea.
I built a lot of them in Vietnam Nam.
Welcome Home Buddy. And Thank You for your service.
Are you kidding me?
The strength and durability of this house has been thoroughly tested by the TLP’s
The three little pigs !!!
Better than the home they’re building for Obama it’s a dirt bag home !!!
You know the Earth Bag!!!! I have some books if you want to borrow! Get building!