Natural Living with Mike and Nalini

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@MsRRay001 2 күн бұрын

Amazing progress! 😀

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Күн бұрын

@@MsRRay001 thanks! ❤️

@bethakabetty 7 күн бұрын

Does the cob go directly over the stacked rock stem wall or is there a vapor barrier in between?

@mikedroske2709 7 күн бұрын

No vapor barrier, it's just cob directly on the stone stem wall!

@gfshaffer1 Ай бұрын

Wow look at it transform!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Ай бұрын

Thanks, it's changing fast!

@MsRRay001 Ай бұрын

Looks like you’ve already got some good things growing in there!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Ай бұрын

Blueberries, Goji berries, mustard, arugula, cosmos, kale, watermelon, nasturtium, and more!

@MsRRay001 Ай бұрын

Amazing!🤩

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Ай бұрын

Thanks! We hope to plant them with fruit trees this year.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Ай бұрын

The berms follow the contour and are spaced 15' apart for optimal airflow for fruit trees.

@MsRRay001 2 ай бұрын

Looking great! Congrats!😊

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@TE-cb9hr 2 ай бұрын

Nice!

@frankv5125 2 ай бұрын

Grosss lol

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 2 ай бұрын

Haha, it's just clean water and clay mud! For now...

@MsRRay001 2 ай бұрын

I am amazed at what y’all have accomplished! 🎉❤

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Rebecca!!

@MsRRay001 3 ай бұрын

Cute lil 🐸 . And your cob house looks amazing!!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope he has a pleasant stay.

@39paulkemp 4 ай бұрын

looking good, man!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 4 ай бұрын

Thanks amigo! You should come visit it in person!

@worganyos 5 ай бұрын

I'm not saying your wall sucks or that it won't last, but I'm just relaying some information that I've heard. Dry stack walls are NOT meant to be filled with gravel. They are meant to be filled with hearting. Hearting is smaller rocks, but not gravel. Whenever you fill between the rocks, you should be sticking the largest rock possible in the middle of the wall each time until the cavity is filled. Gravel fill makes for a weak wall. Also, the "taper" is called "batter". Another rule that you weren't able to follow due to the size of your rocks relative to your wall width: the face of the stone should always be the narrow side, the length of the rock should stick into the wall. I'm not an expert, in fact I've never built a dry-stack wall, but these are principles that I've heard repeatedly from professional dry stone wallers. I'm a part-time mason (part-time horticulturist, part-time carpenter) who's just learning about dry-stone walling.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 5 ай бұрын

Good comment. You are correct when you say you should be using the largest rock possible in the middle of the wall. We definitely attempted to do this, but I should have communicated that principle better. However, hearting can be gravel, and we used a variety of sizes of rock for our hearting. The smaller rocks are equally important to the larger ones in holding the wall together, as long as they are angular and not smooth, as their jagged edges create many points of connection that lock together. I wouldn't recommend building a wall without using hearting that's smaller than 3/4", as you need that small size to get into all the small voids in the wall. And yes, "batter " is the wall building jargon for "taper," I just couldn't recall that word at the time. 😁

@gfshaffer1 5 ай бұрын

What is under the pond liner but above the wood?

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 5 ай бұрын

That's mineral wool boards 1" thick for insulation. It has a 4 R-value.

@gfshaffer1 5 ай бұрын

Y'all working late!

@ezerikdaswahreleben2715 5 ай бұрын

Thx so much 😊

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@ezerikdaswahreleben2715 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@B4icu 6 ай бұрын

Once a wicked storm comes rolling into this place and creates an up draft, this baby should become a UFO.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 6 ай бұрын

Hope we get cobbing before that wicked storm rolls in! 😂

@Omarbaba74 6 ай бұрын

Cok konuşacana iş yaptığını görelim

@michaellinnebur7694 7 ай бұрын

Wait just a minute.you did this in the most free country in the world.the one were you need a permit a architect drawings etc.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 6 ай бұрын

We're lucky to live in a rural area where no permits are necessary.

@danknugz7605 7 ай бұрын

You should not have used woven geotextile in your burrito. You should have used non woven for more water flow. Youre not going to allow enough water to pass through your system with woven.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the input. Seems like woven is working out for us after 3 years. Every time we have a big storm, our outlet pipe is flowing like a fire hose.

@MsRRay001 7 ай бұрын

That’s awesome!!🤩

@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt 7 ай бұрын

Wraparound Rock raised beds

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 7 ай бұрын

Maybe once we finish the walls! 😂

@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt 7 ай бұрын

@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini them walls are going to go up a lot faster whenever people figure out that you can bale bamboo and weave Willows and miscanthus basket houses. There's nobody even doing timber frame and peg bamboo joinery hardly. Nobody's even stacking the bamboo like cordwood in adobe yet.

@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt 7 ай бұрын

@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini if you plant something like ivy or honeysuckle on the North side has it climbs the house it provides an additional barrier buffer to the weather

@h.rutten2187 7 ай бұрын

A great tip for quickly building cob walls is to get any digger you can get with a bucket. If you can buy a small or big second hand digger for a few thousand dollars(or even better borrow one. If so you can simply dig a pit and mix the cob with the digger in the pit with local soil adding any extra clay, sand, straw and water that it needs to be good cob. Then when it’s done mixing with the bucket you can just lift it out with that bucket scooping it out in a big cob lump and place it on top of the stone walls to be battered and stumped into place with wooden hammers and paddles. You can also create a big mud pool in a shallow wide mud pit and mix the cobs with the tracks of the digger and scoop it out, but with the diggers bucket in a deeper pit it’s much more efficient and way less messy. In the U.S. a good old but second hand digger should be bought for under ten thousand dollar, saves you endless back breaking work and helps with any big landscaping projects. The big ones are often really cheap in comparison because of the big trucks and permits for travel that you need but once its on the property you could build a cob castle with it.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! We already have a lovely old Kubota tractor which we plan to use in our cob pit. If you check out our other videos you'll see it in action!

@d1m4d 8 ай бұрын

Looks really beautiful! Thanks for the detailed instructions

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@d1m4d 8 ай бұрын

Nice clear explanation of the whys and hows. Thank you! Planning on doing a similar foundation in Scotland. Cheers

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 8 ай бұрын

Awesome! Hope your foundation goes well and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions.

@sometimeallthetime 8 ай бұрын

Cannot hear you over the music in the beginning

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, the music was playing from my phone while I recorded the video. I was still learning the finer points of YouTubing back then! Not gonna make that mistake again!

@kimedison6677 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Great to see you, Kim. Hope you're doing great!

@andrewsackville-west1609 10 ай бұрын

Im jealous you can get away with a rubble foundation. In my area, you can't get anyone to sign iff on it, anymore, due to seismic requirements

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 10 ай бұрын

Rubble trenches are pretty resilient when it comes to earthquakes, as they're somewhat self-healing when combined with a dry-stacked stone stem wall. When the small gravel hearting is really packed into the joints of the wall, it can shift into an even more stable configuration after a seismic event. The problem comes when you try to put a concrete grade beam (which is definitely not self-healing) on a rubble trench.

@andrewsackville-west1609 10 ай бұрын

@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini right. The problem is permitting a structure... finding an engineer to stamp a rubble trench or a building department to approve one without an engineers stamp is basically impossible, where I am.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 9 ай бұрын

@@andrewsackville-west1609 Hopefully some municipalities will come around to rubble trench foundations. They've got a very long track record, (much longer than concrete!) but they're definitely not in the mainstream right now. Good luck with permitting!

@kirkcoulter1180 10 ай бұрын

Any updates? Where are you at now? Interested in knowing if the plans for this were approved by the local athorities. Most are not hip to this type of construction.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 10 ай бұрын

Updates coming soon! Thankfully, we are outside of the city limits, so no permits required.

@yawjunior 10 ай бұрын

hello! First thank you for this. I run into your video as I am educating myself on alternative foundations and just recently learned of the term rubble foundation. A few questions :)... Is the burrito part an additional piece that you added as a french drain (learning new things!), for extra security given it's a foundation for a home that may not be on the highest ground? Or is it an essential part of a rubble foundation in general? For example lets say you were building on high ground or making an exterior perimeter wall, would you have employed the burrito ? With buying things like landscape fabric, gravel, pipes, did you still find the cost of all those materials much less than if you had utilized a cement foundation in a similar configuration? Certainly much more eco friendly!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 10 ай бұрын

The "burrito" (and by that I mean a perforated 4" pipe surrounded by drain rock surrounded by a "burrito" of landscape fabric) is essential to a rubble trench foundation. The purpose of the landscape fabric "tortilla," if you will, is to filter the small clay and silt particles so they don't clog up your drain rock. A concrete foundation wouldn't provide the benefits in drainage and stability to our dry stacked stone stem wall we wanted, so we didn't bother comparing costs, we quickly decided we didn't want a concrete foundation.

@yawjunior 10 ай бұрын

appreciate you@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini

@floppyearhomestead 10 ай бұрын

What diameter is your roundhouse?

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 10 ай бұрын

74' is the outer diameter of the stem wall.

@chelzcherry 10 ай бұрын

What's the function of the 4" perforated pipe? Beautiful video

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 10 ай бұрын

The 4" perforated pipe is like a water super highway at the bottom of the trench. It carries all of the water collected by the rubble trench out from under the house and into our pond.

@TahoeQ 11 ай бұрын

Amazing work! How do you size everything for the weight of the roof?

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 11 ай бұрын

We consulted a lot of different sources, but this website helped us a lot: forestryforum.com/members/donp/logbeamcalc.htm

@TahoeQ 11 ай бұрын

@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini What! I wish I knew about this website sooner. Thanks.

@sujithrajan4034 11 ай бұрын

Way to go Nal and Mike

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Sujith!

@charlotteeolsen8397 11 ай бұрын

Im so happy i found your channel! Great content ❤ can't wait to see the final build

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 11 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard and thanks! It's coming along, and new content will be coming soon!

@charlotteeolsen8397 11 ай бұрын

Oh you made a French drain

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 11 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@trevorvanzuydam8115 Жыл бұрын

Would the plastic not act like a pipe anyway, making the actual pipe unnecessary?

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

The only plastic in the rubble trench IS the pipe. The landscape fabric is porous to water, but keeps the dirt out of the rubble trench.

@trevorvanzuydam8115 Жыл бұрын

@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini I see now , thank you!

@numbersvibrations Жыл бұрын

I hope you post another video soon. I love how different your build project is. Please post soon.

@Shaboynga Жыл бұрын

Awesome progress. Can’t wait to see how it looks with the walls up!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! We're doing the roof first before we start on the walls. Hopefully that'll get done this year!

@naturalbuildings Жыл бұрын

I’d love to connect and feature your build on my channel in the future if you were interested. :) Do you have an Instagram?

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! We don't have an Instagram for the build at the moment, but I do have one for my music. instagram.com/michaeldroskemusic?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

@davejones4269 Жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation. Thanks and we’ll done. Ps That’s looks like it’s going to be one huge house

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dave! It's definitely gonna be huge!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

RIP Joe Fondren, the fearless man up on the telehandler's pallet who swooped in and helped restore our confidence in the build. He made it look easy, and we got everything we needed done before we had to return the telehandler. He will be greatly missed.

@quintondavid7023 Жыл бұрын

Wow you guys are crushing! Just curious what’s your intended budget for this overall build? We’re you guys subject to extensive permitting in your area?

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! We're trying to keep the budget as low as possible. $25k was our original budget, but we've probably already surpassed that, or come close. The rocks were the biggest expense. No permits required, we're in unincorporated Bowie County.

@quintondavid7023 Жыл бұрын

@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini thanks I really appreciate getting bs k to me, and that’s awesome! I think it’s pretty common to have things go over but the end result looks like it will be really epic! Excited to see it progress

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

@@quintondavid7023 thank you! Excited to keep building it!

@LawofMosesHere 6 ай бұрын

@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalinicurious if the rules of permits don’t apply to unincorporated areas in any state (such as mine of California)or just yours and some others (I know Colorado allows). I hope this isn’t a silly question. ❤

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini 6 ай бұрын

@@LawofMosesHere not sure, but I would definitely check with your county. Some jurisdictions might have permit requirements even though you're out of the city.

@39paulkemp Жыл бұрын

right on, guys!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Thanks, buddy!

@cratersofthemoon Жыл бұрын

Looks like I’m your 100th subscriber! Wishing you well!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Yay!!!! Thank you for subscribing! Wishing you well as well!

@mcfujiwara925 Жыл бұрын

Yes, my friend! Totally kickin' Pathagorass! Shim-mee & shakin'! Glad you're gettin' your rocks off (or in)! :) Bet having a roof overhead would be a game-changer, especially all the fun in the sun you've been having. Can't wait to see more of your fab progress!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much man! Great to hear from you. Yes, we can't wait to be able to rock and roll in the shade!

@FelixTheAnimator Жыл бұрын

I'm down in Tyler. I'd love to help!

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Sure, help is always welcome!

@mikewagenblast5454 Жыл бұрын

Good boots indeed. Great job in sight preparation and the environmental goings on within the site.

@permasystems Жыл бұрын

Great video! Looking forward to seeing the progress.

@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! There's a lot more to come that I'm very excited to share soon.

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