Rammed Earth for Garage Door Opening - Vlog 55

[@perryculley3086]

And by the I'm from Ottawa Canada love your build.

[@brandtall9639]

Love your work and can't wait to see the garage completed.

[@RedEarthRanch]

Thank you for the kind words. We can't wait to see it either :-)

[@learner-long-life]

Inspiring! Beautiful family and beautiful build. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. I love the look of the walls, and the ability to create a home from the land.

[@RedEarthRanch]

Thanks so much!

[@reneetrepanier284]

Hello from Toronto, Ontario! Sooooo much fun watching your build. Can't wait to see your next video. Hoping to start our rammed earth tiny house build in 2022...

[@RedEarthRanch]

That's awesome! Best of luck to you on your build. It is a lot of work but totally worth it!

[@JoshBarbe]

Nice! Looking good and making progress. Keep it up!

[@RedEarthRanch]

Thanks! Will do!

[@JonathanColegrove]

Could do aerated concrete (lighter weight) for the roof, or do a vaulted ceiling. Actually, in Texas, you could have a flat roof & BBQ / have a gazebo up there. That wouldn't work where I am in Michigan, haha.

[@RedEarthRanch]

It's funny you say that because we are looking at doing exactly that on the roof of the garage. I'm trying to find if Aircrete would work but having trouble finding data on strengths and span load ratings. On the flat roof we plan to put 12 inches of soil and grow local grasses up there.

[@JonathanColegrove]

@@RedEarthRanch Was wading though some material online to see if I could find out for you, but didn't run into many hard #s. A lot of the sites mentioned requiring an engineer, but perhaps if there are some building codes out there that might shed light on the strength requirements (since they're already approved by an engineer)?

[@eddsona7x]

amazing, I watching from Brasil. esperando por mais vídeos.

[@RedEarthRanch]

Welcome!

[@leemccready4652]

Awesome work. I keep circling back to rammed earth every six months or so and just found you and your project. You do great work! In your experience so far, how quickly can you put up your walls? Like how many square feet of wall a day on average can you get done? I have a lot of experience with concrete forming using symons style forms and have done quite a bit of flatwork. Just curious what the real-world production figures look like. Thanks and keep up the awesome content!

[@RedEarthRanch]

If you have experience with concrete the learning curve is VERY shallow. With just the two of us we can get about 150 sq/ft (about 14 sq/m) done in about 5 days. That's 2 days of formwork and 3 days of ramming. With a crew of 4-5 we can cut that time in half, and if you had an experienced crew and enough forms you could probably triple or quadruple that production speed. A lot of it depends on your equipment and crew. We are going much slower because there is only 2 of us and we are learning as we go, however as we gain experience things are speeding up. Hope that helps

[@joelkaysen2452]

i know it's quite randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to stream new tv shows online?

[@josueortegarubio]

Looking good! Have you come across an electrical outlet yet? Waiting to see how you’ll ram around it. Thank you for sharing your journey, I plan on building my future house using rammed earth so all the little details you share are much appreciated.

[@RedEarthRanch]

Not yet we won't be doing any "in wall" electrical on the garage or workshop. Unfortunately we won't be able to show that until we get to the main house. But maybe we will have to show a demo for you

[@czependoza]

@@RedEarthRanch I just want to ask the same question And please don't forget about Solar panel

[@FrancisOpoku]

Great stuff. Lovely colors. Mind sharing your mix components and mix ratios?

[@RedEarthRanch]

3 parts sand to 1 part 3/8 gravel and 9-10% portland cement, then 2-6% of the cement for color. That mix design is for our material though, I would highly recommend getting a mix design done to ensure you have good strength with whatever materials you are planning on using.

[@FrancisOpoku]

@@RedEarthRanch thanks for your response. I'm definitely sticking around to see you complete that house ... 🙏🙏

[@FrancisOpoku]

@@RedEarthRanch did you add any stabilizers? Also I'm sure you are using the cement as your binder? Can I replace that work clay since I have lots of it on my property?

[@CaioTarantino]

What do you use to color the layers? Also, could you give us the proportion of the soil mixing? Love it. Brazil is watching you guys. lol

[@RedEarthRanch]

Color is Lambert materials Adobe Tan and Rustic Copper concrete color. We us 3 parts sand to 1 part gravel

[@perryculley3086]

Just a tip you could cover your screw heads with car bondo sand smooth so you won't see them on your finish product.

[@RedEarthRanch]

We recently got some and are gonna try it, Thanks for the tip!

[@toddtangen6750]

Excellent! What's your plan for the roof? Won't engineered trusses bridge the span?

[@RedEarthRanch]

They probably would but we are wanting to make our own out of trees from the land. We have many pines that need to be cleared to make room for Oak

[@offthegriddownunderaustral8814]

Been waiting for your latest vid. are you having a rest for winter? Here we can't do rammed earth if the earth is wet to begin with. Love your work Bro.

[@RedEarthRanch]

Yeah the holidays and the winter cold has slowed us waaaay down. It has been below freezing on the days we wanted to ram so we worked on other projects.

[@czependoza]

@@RedEarthRanch It's time to move South I live in Mexico You can rammed Even Winter time Let me know if you like to go to visit Mexico. Do you have any experience About build a house Ocean from rammed earth Of course I find many confusing information.

[@timklassen421]

Ibeam to span roof might be a soultion to span the roof instead of a post .

[@RedEarthRanch]

We looked at that but I-Beams are pretty expensive and I had a hard time finding them in 30' spans that would support the amount of weight of the living roof.

[@dannywilliams6643]

I just subbed. I've always wanted to do this type of build. How would one look into a plot of land to source the materials from the land itself. Thank you for posting these videos. Also can you tell me percentages of concrete, sand & clay you are using?

[@RedEarthRanch]

Thanks Danny! We looked at sourcing the material from the land itself. We actually have a lot of good material on our land, however to rent or purchase the equipment necessary to clean that material was cost prohibitive for us. You want to get very specific materials to get the strength that we are seeing (about 4000 psi). So we found a local quarry and purchased the material from them. We are using 3 parts sand to 1 part aggregate (3/8 gravel) 9-10% portland cement. However that mixture is for the specific material in our area. I would recommend getting a good mix design to get good strength.

[@MrRWF2004]

Which county is it? How is experience in getting the approval for the plan? How long it took to get the approval? Do you have to pay an architect for this? I subscribed to follow your progress. Planning to do in AZ. Will have to check the building code restrictions there.

[@ristoner1]

USA we are outside city limits so no permit or plan approval needed We did have an architect help us with the initial layout and design of the house AZ is a great place to do rammed earth. If you are anywhere near Phoenix I would talk to SIREWALL USA about helping with all the questions

[@MrRWF2004]

Thank you. I meant which county . It was a typo

[@raqueldasilva4637]

Esta ficando muito lindo a sua casa, estou amando tudo isso!

[@RedEarthRanch]

Muito obrigado!

[@jacobshocklie2928]

hey I love the videos!! I was wondering what the metal formwork is called and where did you get it?

[@RedEarthRanch]

We made the forms using 16 gauge steel studs and sheets of medium density overlay. You can see how we made them here on this video - Making MDO Frames for Rammed Earth - Vlog 40 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5m0daKAlLRgq9U

[@mwood1012]

Why an interior column? It looks to me like the truss span in either direction is well within the building code standard using 2"x10" @ 14" oc framework... exactly what the measurement of the span? Is there a second story over the garage? Just curious.

[@RedEarthRanch]

Not a second story...hopefully a living roof. 12 inches of soil

[@mwood1012]

@@RedEarthRanch that makes sense... thanks!

[@anaavila6848]

We are near you, in Tennessee Colony

[@RedEarthRanch]

Come visit sometime!

[@anaavila6848]

@@RedEarthRanch We will visit you hopefully Friday morning July 1st

[@1231dre]

Where are you guys located. Do you guys do any consulting?

[@ristoner1]

We are in East Texas, we haven't done any consulting primarily because we haven't finished our project yet. Plan to in the future but don't feel super qualified until we are living in it :-)

[@anaavila6848]

Where do you get the forms? Please share your information

[@RedEarthRanch]

We built them out of 16ga steel studs and MDO board

[@shivasodyssey8283]

What's The Height & Breadth of the wall???

[@RedEarthRanch]

2 feet (60 cm) thick by 11.5 feet (350 cm) high.

[@NisforNurse]

This stressed me out 🤣

[@kurmangaliev9989]

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[@olhafilimonova4396]

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