5 Eco-Friendly Building Materials #1

[@tomkelly8827]

Great video! They all look good to me! I have built a couple straw bale homes here in Canada, one even had hemp bales. The hemp bales were hell to work with, the stringyness did not allow us to use our chainsaws to shape them for windows and such. wheat and barley bales were really nice to work with though. It was a slow process and I think this pre-fab idea would be a better use of time and materials. Less commuting necessary. We always had timber frames and roofs with large overhangs. When building with natural materials it is always good to have a good hat and a good pair of boots for your building! (large overhangs on the roof and up out of the mud!)

[@PeteCollingsArchitect]

I reckon hempcrete will be THE building material of the future. I've already designed a few hempcrete houses here in Australia.

[@MrSpringfellow]

I have a question Pete. Hemp is organic right? So how long until they decompose?

[@PeteCollingsArchitect]

@@MrSpringfellow The hemp is protected from decomposing by the lime binding agent so it will take about 300 years or so... hempcretehomes.com/what-is-hempcrete/

[@bradevans7935]

@@MrSpringfellow Good question. I would expect that its biodegradability would be no worse than the timber supports. I have seen one source that indicated that, as a result of it being mixed with lime, it effectively becomes petrified, thus no longer biodegradable, but this would need to be independently confirmed.

[@zaarkhananal7165]

I really like the interlocking brick and the bamboo.

[@gortab]

Straw panels make great building material so long as you don't have to worry about big wolves or high winds.

[@abs1685]

😂🤣🤣

[@JMiskovsky]

Or fire

[@AnnaDolphin97]

@@JMiskovsky i mean they were literally burning it witha flamethrower for demonstration and it didnt seem to catch fire very easily

[@carolinahernandez7112]

@@JMiskovsky you didnt watch the video huh?

[@robertkustos2931]

😂

[@matthill367]

That it's astounding! I love the last one, melting down plastic

[@bobby_digital9493]

I’m so glad someone finally came up with the biblock plastic recycling idea. I’ve always thought of that since I saw people using bottles and rubber tires. Such a better alternative to just dumping in landfills and oceans. It could also be used for public spaces, walkways, statues I don’t see why we shouldn’t since it’s so unbiodegradable.

[@sanjuansteve]

Since hemp blocks are so light, I'm surprised they don't make them in much larger sizes to save installation time.

[@willm5814]

Hempcrete and Straw look REALLY promising!

[@utubeape]

but straw is important for animal feed

[@w.mckintymckinty6062]

@@utubeape Hi Nick, Straw is a waste product sometimes used for bedding but always lots leftover - it's hay that is used for feed

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

I helped build a straw home and they are incredibly efficient. I think a combination of this hempcrete with straw building and plastering could be an incredible tech.

[@willm5814]

Shasta valley outdoorsman I agree - straw is paticularly impressive - inexpensive - amazing insulation - bug and mold resistant and surprisingly fire retardant!

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

@@willm5814 well it certainly was all those things after we put 2 inches of plaster on either side.

[@illusions77]

All these companies invested in such projects should be tax free IMO; they are one amount few such groups putting out the cash for R&D and actual innovation in the real green sense.

[@dariankaltenbach8062]

Libertarian here. All new companies should be given a bit of a boost in general, even in established industries. This would encourage innovation and competition and take some of the advantage away from incumbents.

[@garystone7062]

@eblman Maybe you can enlighten us why Dr. Rand Paul went to Canada for some of their Socialist and free medical care after his neighbor gave him a beat-down? Why would an American senator with free health care paid for by the taxes of Americans take the time and personal expense to leave the country and travel 1000 miles for something he could get at home at no cost to him? Why would American Senator and medical doctor Rand Paul risk publicizing the notion that Canadian Socialist free medical care is better?

[@michaeld9682]

@@garystone7062 the Canadian system is not better

[@dlg5485]

Hempcrete looks to be the most promising to me, if they can figure out how to make it strong enough to be load bearing.

[@iminsideyourwalls9432]

Cannabis has strong fibers resistant to axial tension,stronger than jute even.Using it in concrete blocks makes it resistant to compressive loads,it's basically a natural concrete reinforcement.

[@dailyrider2975]

1930s-2018 Only took 90 years to RE-allow growing of one of oldest and most useful plants in HISTORY of mankind. Limited growth as well. Think of all the trees that didn't need to be cut down for paper. Trillion dollar industry derailed by corporate greed.

[@elizabethburns9194]

I think building out of recycled plastic is genius.

[@johnwest3287]

Drove down to northern California and saw endless fields of hemp. What a sight for the eyes! Yes it's not marijuana but finally we can grow it again as a do all product.

[@tinkersmentality8794]

how it should be. && like evergreens as far as the eye can see NOT BIG FUCKING SECTIONS OF Deforestation & BUILDING EVERY FUCKING PLACE

[@robin-myhouse3472]

very interesting. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnO7YoCAqK9jqrs

[@danthebroken8552]

"Fire! Fire! Get out of the house!" "Nah, maaan. Stay here and chill."

[@MrPakanohida]

The house can't catch fire.. but funny.

[@louisegogel7973]

nor is the building hemp anything you want to smoke!

[@deva_771]

1.hempcrete 2.straw panel 3.interlocking brics 4. bamboo

[@mdt9921]

I'm a bit skeptical about the last one. Plastic is quite flammable and can burn quite rapidly. Unless there is some sort of anti-flammatory mix into it, I am a skeptic

[@PeaceChanel]

Peace… Shalom… Salam... Namaste and Thank You for making Eco-Friendly videos and All that you are doing to heal our Mother Earth 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ 🌷 ☮️❤️

[@sojiadamo5212]

Good for the Hempesphere.

[@oldhikinthesticks4524]

And if your house ever catches fire you’ll be happy about it.😉👍🏻😁

[@veganvocalist4782]

Brad Burton lmao 🤣

[@brunosco]

😂

[@williamburgos2963]

Oh wow! UP IN SMOKE 🤪

[@thomasblue6064]

These are all very promising materials. My question , will these materials be cost effective in the building industry. Will the average builder , home owner be able to afford these materials, or will this be for custom builds. Thanks

[@lousanch]

I like the hemp block the best.

[@NotingSpecial]

Excellent thank you 😊

[@christophertolhurst4918]

I love you. Great video. Thanks. God bless you. Peace

[@PaulBodyBuilder]

Hempcrete blocks r structural now. Wyndmoor PA

[@alanvermillionsr7126]

Hempcrete is my choice since the rest has to be treated, formed, shipped, etc.

[@jimmybob7364]

How are they going to put a "crete" in the name. That shit is nothing but compressed insulation. I'm all for it but don't pretend that you can lay some foundation walls and mortar it in. lol Make it so someone can grab it and put it in their attic or walls for cheap.

[@kellybarthel8060]

Are you smoking hempcrete? Because yes it needs to be treated, formed, and shipped. As hemp create does not grow naturally formed in blocks everywhere on the planet.

[@Greyhawkism]

@@kellybarthel8060 ah, but it can be made by anyone and after 50+ years, it's as good as stone. Smoke your own.

[@kellybarthel8060]

@@Greyhawkism well good luck with the smoking it.

[@margaretneanover6066]

Ok, I'm in.. awesome thinking. If they are filled with product well. How relaxing...hahaha

[@badbrain8279]

I like hempcrete, but straw can be used as well. I made something with straw and hydrated lime. I also like my discovery of mixing just a little bit of roofing cement tar with clay mud. it actually mixes together and is hard when dry. I paint it with linseed oil.

[@princessgreen726]

Been looking for lime cement, how does one get it. Heard its much cheaper and better than the usual Portland cement. How can I find it in Africa?

[@badbrain8279]

@@princessgreen726 Its just agricultural lime or hydrated lime or quick lime. Most lime they sell is just ground limestone which is not it. I would definitely say this is not superior to Portland cement. In fact Portland cement was invented to be vastly superior to this. Also, I'd say ordinary bticklaying mortar is better than this, Its cement with a lot of lime mixed in which makes it sticky. If someone told u this its the wrong information.

[@lunastar832]

My only concern about the plastic blocks is the microplastics coming off the blocks leeching into the soil and water systems especially if it's on direct contact of the soil

[@CroppedHornet]

And they recommended it as a retaining wall. It’s absurd.

[@digeratiart]

So much great information - Mind Blown!

[@olivefowler5506]

Brilliant idea, great materials.

[@Umanovavida-oo3pk]

Very cool this idea.

[@laundrysauce234]

Oooooo those plastic blocks looking to be my machine shop walls

[@targetguy777]

There is a robot type machine now that poors out a stream of cement in a programmed pattern and builds houses now also.

[@shreehariagrotech7535]

Amazing and very informative. Thanks

[@walterbyrd8380]

Hempcrete: the big bad wolf will huff and puff, than forget why he was there in the first place.

[@EcoSnooki]

Very nice....😍

[@mdexter24]

l like that hemp block.

[@mariaemilianegron]

Great ideas I was planning on filling water bottles with cement to use on the outside of my shed Great Inventions

[@kirkwoodpritchard2675]

Very interesting, a lot of potential

[@napoleonadamu8019]

Extremely high buildings.Hemcrete!

[@veganvocalist4782]

Love the straw house 👍🏽

[@GaiaCarney]

Thanks for sharing this, CGS Tech ♻️ Fire repellent building materials are needed for West Coast, USA! It’s good these materials are seismically sound as well ✅

[@joeyoung5413]

First love these vids very cool

[@annaelizabeth2923]

I wonder about the straw and mould issues - how does it effect this- I like the idea of the hempcrete though and interested in seeing homes with interlocking bricks

[@christinagobel8968]

Afaik you have to be careful during the assembly of a straw house, to prevent any moisture from coming in for this exact reason. It can be tedious. Also, it gets coated with water-proof layers, as hinted on the video. If those both aspects are taken care of throughly, mold shouldn't be a problem, theoretically

[@agoogler1887]

Really good program :0)

[@jeraldbishop1942]

UP IN SMOKE ALL OVER AGAIN!

[@shreeramakrishna347]

Wonderful attempt to find alternative matterial for construction which are functional

[@sygrovesteve5819]

Like the straw/timber sections house

[@10ssr]

Please make a video about the alternate roof, slab material.

[@angelisvegan5826]

Maybe kota tile or clay tiles.. I grateful that you actually wanna opt for something sustainable

[@sandralewis1689]

I'm rebuilding after the Camp Fire that burned down Paradise CA with a composite interlocking block called Faswall. It's 85% recycled pallet wood and 15% cement. You dry stack it inserting rebar then fill with concrete. Like the hempcrete, it's lightweight, insulating, soundproofing, and you can work it with hand tools. Gives about an R35 wall. I'd love to use hempcrete but don't want to wait for the laws to catch up.

[@tonysanders5721]

Can you use plastic blocks for building a seawall

[@top3844]

Some other time in news the wall of the house is missing Hempcrete.z

[@raymondpeters9186]

Pumicecrete is by far the best building material on the planet

[@catchnote2]

Love love love this videos been looking for one pls will love more. Useful info

[@terrancel1786]

This would be great for the earthship designs.

[@NSR_-td9hf]

How hempcrete blocks are made? Please anyone explain in detail about this.

[@beetle9430]

Looking at building a green home. This looks like a great channel to help with that thank you

[@bruceradfordsorrywronghous534]

Awesome thanks!

[@tsuobachi]

These are all cool, but by far the best is aircrete. Too bad it isn't on the list, it's definitely #1.

[@harrygaul4475]

Hemp building- Cheech and Chong up in Smoke🤣💸💲

[@sureshruparel9114]

Similar Indian punjab person has eco friendly plaster in fact it keeps good temp balance control in all season no chemical used in wall making make it more healthy effective atmosphere maintain easily

[@Fryinberg]

Yea man bamboo is the the beez neez. Been used for thousands of years.

[@RICHARDLUKENBACH]

compression compression as is with low heat no shredding or sorting keep it simple. like use steel compression equipment. sheets, bricks boards, etc.

[@Nothing-g7e]

When a car hits that plastic building and bounces off or it gets real hot and melts hemp all the way

[@Kiyarose3999]

Also buildings can be made using Fungi.

[@L.M1792]

Good materials. Certainly better than unemployment and sleeping on the streets. I pray good things can take place for good people, instead of good things taking place for all these crooks, who go on poisoning yet increasing their fortunes. Good things for good people 👍

[@eclipsesolar8345]

The fuck are you talking about, fool ? Do You know what it would take to make actual houses from hemp bricks ? DO you fool ? The cost production to make them , the time, the demand, the transport ?? would make it almost impossible. This isn't Rome from 2000 years ago, dummy.

[@Tashyncho-Sapa]

interlocking bricks for me

[@darrelldamon2745]

Turning plastic waste into blocks, that's a nice one but their all great ideas

[@giovanniartavia2368]

Great

[@Simonjose7258]

And if the house burns down you got the whole neighborhood high! Amazing! LOVE it! 🤦‍♂️🤣🤭

[@SegoMan]

Fire dept budget to skyrocket!

[@aquariusthompson8212]

u do know hemp and cannabis are different...cannabis gets you high hemp does not and with hempcrete its fire resistance smh

[@Simonjose7258]

Bamboo is the shit! 🤣

[@muhammadawisabdshahadan1117]

Kepada kerja yang baik good luck good job then good life but quality and safety always be first 👍🥳🎉😘😍 aspek ketahanan bagaimana pula guyezzzz

[@MiguelGarcia-bm7cj]

I wonder if straw panels can handle the big bad wolf

[@lorandlayton1756]

So where is the plumbing and electricals outlets ??

[@ironmountain7907]

Do you not understand that houses have to have the walls and fundamental structure/framing before they get plumbing or electric?... In every example shown they were just demonstrating the structural integrity of these natural alternative building materials.

[@scorpio6587]

Awesome

[@marioharry616]

Exelentes ideas invadan elmercado

[@grabithard2534]

Without government, nothing would stand in our way to create a better world.

[@grabithard2534]

@nunya business nope, thats a fallacious argument. Government stands in the way of a free market and takes from people. Government can not give what it does not have so it takes in taxes, fines, penalties, registrations, licenses, permits from the people and gives to other people. If you dont obey the rules you will be met with the peoples authority who enforce the policy for legislators. Some how ,some way corporations are superior and can use whatever said material that is banned and not face or risk any jail time or punishment. Now without government, i can freely grow and use whatever materials i desire, build whatever i want, wherever with whatever and how ever. If I want to privatize my work, I wont have government interference. Ultimately the people will control their own supply and demand instead of it being regulated and taxed. Price...lol nothing but a fiction. Do you have a answer for, what someone will not do for money? Also, who has a higher claim over your life & property , you or the government?

[@hopebear06]

@nunya business Government is a corporation with shareholders. If you choose to believe it acts in your best interests then you have no idea what's really going on. Look around. The planet is a disgusting mess. Corporate interests call the shots, not the people who government is purported to represent.

[@954brent954]

@nunya business government oversight so even the poor get treated like the rich, lol! That's the funniest comment I've seen on KZbin in 2020! Remember the tax breaks? The one's that Donald Trump gave permanent tax breaks to corporations aka the rich while everyone else tax break was temporary! Permanent and temporary is opposites. For you to say government oversite so the rich an poor get treated equal, you're not in touch at all.

[@954brent954]

@nunya business Who are you replying to? Cause when I replied to your comment. I gave a reply directly based on you saying government oversite so poor and rich can be treated the same. I also gave an example of how your comment is bull. The government is run by corporations in America. Which are the rich! If that was not the case, why don't they take donations from corporations out of elections? Lol!

[@954brent954]

@nunya business Thats, not a direct response, that's a side step. Which I've seen often from people on KZbin. Let me break down your bull. Rich people jump through so many loopholes when it comes to paying taxes. They write this off, they say that is a business expense, etc. So who really pay more taxes, the poor who can't jump through all the loopholes or the rich who can? All you did was point out how much the poor pay for. The roads, police etc! In a nutshell the Government took the roads, police etc and made it public for all at a tax to all, lol! Sound like just another business to me! They just expanded it to all roads, police, hospitals, garbage etc an consolidated it to local state and fed level! Which again since the rich have all kinds of loopholes to pay less tax, who really benefiting the most out of that deal of government taking all of it over? My points are made though. Exactly why cooperate money is in politics. Cause people like you try and justify the obvious downturn of the USA!

[@wonkachocolates6133]

Question : Is it possible to 3D Print HempCrete into Homes...???

[@graithtools8215]

If labor is an issue, 3D printing is a way of substituting capital for labor, but 3D printers themselves aren't always eco-friendly either, in particular if they're diesel-fueled and transported by ICE trucks from site to site. While it's nifty tech, and perfectly feasible to make eco-friendly, that version of the technology doesn't exist yet. And where the hemp has been grown using fossil-sourced fertilizer, releasing NOx GHGs from fossil, this would be more, not less, fossil-intensive than even OPC (responsible for 6% of the world's fossil CO2e emissions).

[@plinyelder8156]

No

[@WillieStubbs]

I don't see any reason why not. Might have to shred the hemp small enough to mix well with the lime to be extruded consistently. And it is just as eco-friendly as any other modern building project all of which use ICE trucks to go from site to site, like duh! An entire community developed using a 3D printer to print each home one right next to another is the most eco-friendly prospect out there. The one factor Graith Tools failed to consider is that workers don't live on the site and 30 workers who aren't driving daily to the job site saves a ton of greenhouse gases... as if there were any worries about the Global Warming/Climate Change myth perpetrated by Al Gore for profit alone.

[@kurtlowder3276]

@@WillieStubbs i am just guessing too, but I would be concerned it would lose much of its strength to weight ration if you shredded it. you would also lose insulation capability. if you are going to process the hemp into smaller bits, then you will need way more lime. lime (a simpler version of cement), adheres to all surfaces, so it nice to have bigger pieces of hemp in there. a good analogy to think about this is concrete. in concrete you down just use sand. you also, use 1/2 inch rock of pea gravel. if you just use sand you would have to use so much more cement/lime in your concrete mixture. the hemp blocks also have lots of air gaps for insulation. so while you could grind it down for 3d printing, you lose a ton of the advantages that come with making these lightweight, porous hemp blocks. the 3d printing option may still be viable. it's a long list of pros and cons. but as three 3d printers become better and cheaper it's could become more viable. labor costs are also huge factor. so in the future, when robots do all the work I would not be surprised to see hemp material in 3d printing. we'll see. If you have decent priced labor then these blocks make a lot of sense. these hemp blocks seem like fairly easy labor work. any decent mason could pick this up quickly and supervise a crew of apprentices/less-skilled workers.

[@tericarter2019]

enjoying

[@nmtroberts]

What about air create form structures.

[@كريملعيوس]

رائع

[@WeeeeeeWooooooo]

allah gaming

[@brettknoss486]

Can hempcrete be sprayed on? If it could be used to bond rockwood to steel, and seal wood or steel frame houses, that could be amazing.

[@lydiaanderson2870]

@Hello brett knoss, How are you doing?

[@mrcr45]

is there a stock to invest in....

[@vincecloete725]

What about Hempcrete mixed with epoxy and sprayed on , cld be a good call.? Just asking as it make sense.

[@igorstankovic3275]

Hempcrete and Straw

[@andrewemerson1613]

the straw and hemp things are great ideas... just not as "building materials" as in, what most people would think to be the main structural component. top tier ideas for insulation, yes absolutely, but not what you house is "made of". Frankly what's better than using "eco friendly" materials, are building that density human populations so less wildlands are cleared for use. a concrete building that lasts holds ten families and last 100 years is better for the environment than 10 bamboo houses for a multitude of reasons. that's why I say wherever the climate is dry enough to allow it, just make a bunch of mid-rise buildings out of adobe bricks. those are dirt and straw

[@Shane_O.5158]

i would worry about plastic smells and chemical leaching from the by blocks (the one at the end ).

[@littledancingfawn]

Good comment.

[@montgomerymiller1218]

Hempcrete......a new way to get stoned. On a serious note a great new product!

[@osmanabubaker6658]

What adhesive materials used

[@etienneperley8240]

when I saw the straw house my first thought was the three little pigs.

[@Trustee-of-The-Most-High]

Hempcrete have been used for millenniums in castles that are now a day intact such as the ellora caves not such a young option. Now about being developed in France is not exact but they are probably holding the rights of the product same that happened with the Monopoly copyright claim

[@ricado372]

I'd forgotten all about the Elora caves. I visited there in the late 90s. What an amazing experience. The invitation to build or should I say dig out such incredible structures.

[@Trustee-of-The-Most-High]

@@ricado372 that's how the all world should be built but we got this criminal 🐔🗣 ruling the world.

[@Trustee-of-The-Most-High]

@@ricado372 mark my words , the day that you all fight for your rights to use hemp plant is their last ruling day

[@ricado372]

@@Trustee-of-The-Most-High a friend of mine who lives down in Bayonne, France, is working for a hemp farm / factory and the next phase of the operation is to produce building materials.

[@Trustee-of-The-Most-High]

@@ricado372 who knows, we might meet one day for I'm opening my own business of hemp plant. But here in united States I do get unconditionally kidnapped and cage if I do is my way so I'm moving to California in the next years

[@meenabora5916]

It will firefriendly

[@MhUser]

transporting world wide has nothing to do with 'eco friendly'

[@babamanish103]

What is the bricks compositions

[@liveonthesun3368]

What are the thermal conductivity of each

[@longsleevethong1457]

Who wants a light weight house during a tornado?

[@BIKEKIFE254]

This is what I say it’s true life change especially in Africa more Kenya

[@maddyvonirsik7391]

Thank GOD

[@vijaigarapati1479]

Is it fire resistant