Gorgeous Straw Bale Tiny House You've Gotta See to Believe

[@ashleysingleton6101]

Berea, KY the home of the bell hooks Institute. Beautiful creative energy in Berea, KY. RIP bell hooks.

[@willm5814]

Beautiful work!!!

[@tamaraweber3296]

Wow this house is Awesome 🍀

[@middleway1885]

Yummy home

[@SpaceCrete]

Very beautiful.

[@Osirascope]

Really nice! Thanks for sharing

[@elleh3495]

Just found your channel. I really like the cob house tours, and building information. It's so much more beautiful to see the organic design and aesthetic of the curved, soft colors and shapes. That would be my dream home❤️

[@HardcoreSustainable]

You should come to Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and tour our homes. We are the biggest collection of natural buildings east of the Rockies.

[@annmariemichael1928]

HEY, loved it. Where are ya at? We're leaving Tuscon very soon and would love to see what we can do!! Thanks Ann and Richard

[@donaldjohnson3265]

I love it & want one of my own

[@InsuringUrFuture]

Love this but How are you able to get past zoning restrictions

[@HardcoreSustainable]

There are parts of the US that don't have building codes. That's part of it, but also if your county uses International Building Code, there are provisions for strawbale buildings in that code. Many places now allow strawbale and other natural buildings as well. You just have to look into it.

[@carol07643]

I subscribed to yr chanel. How does cob hold up in rainy weather? I really like these cob tours!

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Cob is usually considered a material for building solid walls. We use earthen plaster (which is basically the same as cob as far as the ingredients) on these strawbale houses, and earthen plaster is much better as an interior finish. I wouldn't use it myself for exterior finish because you need to treat it with linseed oil or something like that or have really big overhangs to prevent weathering. If you don't do this rain will just wash it right off. I did a lime plaster exterior on my house. Lime will hold up much better to the elements than earthen plaster.

[@TioYesi]

wow!!!. great!!. saludos desde Chile... suscriptor desde hace mucho...

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Saludos desde los Estados Unidos. Good to have you as a subscriber!

[@TioYesi]

Thank!!!!!

[@donaldjohnson3265]

Love your house. I want one but don't think the town of Island would like it very much.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I don't know where that is but you might be surprised. The International Building Code is the standard used locally in a lot of towns and counties, and it now allows strawbale buildings. You might not be able to build something quite like this, but it's worth looking into.

[@yankey4]

Nice brother. How do they power the place? Thanks for taking us with you. God Bless.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

That's a good question. I didn't see any system set up yet, but they aren't actually living in the place yet. It isn't quite finished. Thanks for watching.

[@maryrock9136]

I saw this house when it was under construction last September. It really was a great place on the top of the hill in a holler. I didn't know what a holler was besides the reference that Patsy Cline made to it in one of her songs. I asked. About thee mushroom farms as that is what they do there. I'd like to know how your mushroom annulated logs are coming along?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I'll have to revisit the mushroom logs in a future video, Mary. They don't look so hot right now.

[@Grimjack1000]

Any idea on costs for construction?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I don't know this info, but if you contact Ziggy at the Year of Mud website he might be able to tell you.

[@mackelby1]

How is the roof insulated?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I actually don't know. I might have known at the time I posted this video, but i don't remember. Sorry

[@RVBadlands2015]

How do you do an earthen floor over a concrete foundation.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Do you mean over a concrete slab foundation?

[@paulinagardner2326]

Beautiful, how many square feet is it?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I'd guess it was about 600 sq ft, but I didn't measure it.

[@mk17rmb]

What is the approximate diameter of this?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Sorry, I don't know. I'd guess close to 30'.

[@maryrock9136]

Sorry to hear about the inoculated mushroom logs. It sounded so interesting to add oyster mushrooms after shitichi mushrooms. That is if I have that right? It has been a while. I'm still interested to hear what happened as it is often said we learn even more from what doesn't work then we do from what goes right. Thanks for sharing so much with us.

[@Rafikius]

I can not figure out the reason the rafters poked out of the roof sheathing. They seem to be already fungi infested.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I don't know either, but since they are different lengths, I would guess they plan to cut them off at some point. Not sure why they wouldn't have done that earlier.

[@Rafikius]

Thanks for such a prompt answer :) Well... as I was taught it was crucial to their longevity. If you have any chances to contact the owners, drop 'em a line with my suggestion,pls I know that maybe I'm paranoid about the issue but I saw a strawbale house burn because of J tube rocket, I'd go only for a closed firebox system like batchbox of Peter Vder berg. Hugs and good luck to them anyway. btw. I was also pondering why they didn't go for the reciprocal roof structure

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I don't know why they didn't do a reciprocal roof. They did one on Gobcobatron, a house Ziggy built when he first lived at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. They were building it for someone else, so maybe they didn't want the reciprocal roof.

[@tacticalleather766]

I live near here, what would it cost to build me one of these?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I don't know personally, but you could contract Ziggy and April to build one for you. theyearofmud.com

[@derekcraig3617]

As much or more than conventional building if you pay someone to do the work. Faaaar less (up to 80% less) if you do all the work yourself

[@bennohagn]

where is the kid going to sleep when its older?

[@qamartajbalkeez392]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@angiekrajewski6419]

Lay you coukd get tid of these mushrooms by putting either essentiel oils or dabbing with chlorox..,exceptionnaly

[@christineshotton824]

It's very nice, but the problem with many of these structures is that there is more "hippy" than there is "traditional". That's fine if you dig hippy. But don't serve up hippy as if it were a helping of traditional kraftwerk.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Not sure what you mean. Strawbale isn't traditional in many places because insulation wasn't traditional in a lot of places. Not sure what you mean by hippy.

[@zoesdada8923]

I hope they don't let the baby play or sleep upstairs.