Some points about mud bricks

Yet another video made with old footage. I've had my new computer for three weeks now and the thing still does not work, but I do expect to be shooting new material reasonably soon.
In the first day of comments, four people made the same point, so I'll deal with it here: wattle and daub construction was indeed used in northern Europe, where it proved effective despite the more damp weather. However, an important difference is that mud bricks are load-bearing, and if they are weakened by damp, the walls of a building will sag; whereas in wattle and daub, the roof is held up by a wooden structure, the walls have a core of wickerwork, and the mud daub is used just as a draught excluder.
I have never visited a city of mud brick houses, all right-angles and flat rooves, but I do intend to one day.
In a region with reliable hot weather, mud bricks are very easy to make and require little more than water, some simple wooden frames for moulds, and space to let them dry.
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[@smacman68]

When I was in high school our class went out and we made real mud bricks. Once they baked in the sun long enough, we added them to the already thousands of brick made by previous students in a wall at the back of the school property. The wall is now six feet high, two feet thick and about a hundred yards long. The first bricks are over 40 years old and they're still strong as the day they were made. We used straw as our binder agent. Every class etched their class year into the bricks and we now have from 1977 to 2017. Kinda cool

[@gnomethy]

that's so cool!

[@AngryBrother360]

"Interesting piece of information!.👍💭

[@willotter4503]

Wow, that’s pretty cool

[@Followerofthekingofkings1969]

Thats very cool.....your name as well!

[@hannibalburgers477]

it is cool, i wish we did somwthing like that

[@lindybeige]

I will do more, but every weapon video gets at least three times the number of views.

[@MrJm323]

"The mudbrick as a weapon of last resort."

[@Throku]

Here I was thinking you'd visit that skyscraper and topple it by you and your mates having a leak at the bottom after a few pints. Maybe you think I'm mean, but then I have a deep seething hatered for all things brick. It really is the most vile thing ever.

[@nik021298]

Mudbrick videos were too ahead of its time.

[@somtimesieat2411]

Obscure points of interest are more interesting though

[@svendsmitha.623]

I can't see the video date? when is it from?

[@SkoinksX]

Interesting story about mudbrick houses. The village my villa is in had a guy who wanted to bring his mudbrick barn down. So obviously he hired a bulldozer. After the first push by the dozer, the structure... Tipped over and fell on it's side, still completely intact.

[@sislertx]

Lol

[@statingthe_obvious6309]

+SkoinksX that's how the patio was invented.

[@sophiejones7727]

lmao!!!! what did they do with it afterwards? jw

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

Probably collapsed it with jackhammers or something.

[@knightshousegames]

I hope they just said "I'm not mad, I'm just impressed" and left it as is, as a testament to the skill of the person who built it.

[@Xaxp]

Wow. Lindy has found a way to make *MUD BRICKS* actually *interesting*. All the respect, man.

[@samiamtheman7379]

Well, him and Primitive Technology.

[@damianoferrario4330]

Of course: they are BEIGE!

[@foty8679]

@ psst dont tell them. Maybe they are from the goverment.

@@foty8679 >believing that there exists a governament agent without an anime pfp I thought the protocols of identifying the "armed jannies" had been distributed widely enough in HAI's fanbase, I'll have you updated with the oniric-broadcast device nearest to you.

@@foty8679 >believing that there exists a governament agent without an anime pfp I thought the protocols of identifying the "armed jannies" had been distributed widely enough in HAI's fanbase, I'll have you updated with the oniric-broadcast device nearest to you.

[@dejanpopovic7903]

Better documentaries coming out of Lindybeige than any of the shit we find on History or Discovery chanel. Keep producing!

[@MrSwanley]

The Discovery Channel version of this would have the voiceover... "is our hero about to be attacked by the killer bees in the wall?!!" then after the ad break "the bees didn't attack, so back to talking mud bricks".

[@greg4275]

k e e p p r o d u c i n g

[@thiagodeoliveira1727]

There are thousands of videos about sharpened metal bars used to kill, but very few videos about mud bricks and salt and stuff. These are your videos I like the most. Thanks for uploading.

[@lindybeige]

It would depend on how much wood was in the structure, how tall the building, and how severe the quake. Also, remember that only in modern times have we used bricks with cement instead of mortar, so modern brick walls are a lot stronger than their ancient equivalents.

[@toobin8r]

Another interesting fact is that people still make houses with this technique, or at least a similar-enough technique, with adobe houses.

[@lindybeige]

***** True, but I was assuming that people knew that. It is a common building material is hot parts of the world.

[@JoshBrickhouse]

+Lindybeige Also as for the northern limit it's a lot less important if you coat the exterior regularly with plaster it can be built up north, it just needs regular maintenance. Cob construction was very common in Northern Europe until rather recently.

[@StormEngineer]

+Lindybeige Here in Hungary adobe brick was the standard outside of cities for a long time, and is still pretty common today. I myself live in an adobe brick house too. Traditionally the walls were splashed with lime in order to protect it. The liming would be repeated every year, until modern wall paints appeared. In some villages there are still old houses that are limed instead of painted. It is still not uncommon in the countryside to refer to painting a wall by saying "liming the wall". Now, an interesting little thing: I've been to West-Tibet where I volunteered a bit in the reconstruction of a 600 years old palace using authentic techniques, so I had the chance to get acquainted with the details. To my surprise and excitement, the techniques used are EXACTLY the same as those in old Hungarian houses. Floors/ceilings are made the same way too: first a layer of relatively straight sticks across the beams (in Tibet timber is very rare and precious so the more wealthy a family was the less spacing between the sticks. Tightly placed sticks generally only seen in palaces, monasteries and the houses of the richest. The average house has about a palm spacing between them.), then some sort of thick dry plant on top (yakweed in Tibet), then the same material the bricks are made of. And the buildings are also limed - except some special buildings such as prayer halls, which were partially or entirely painted red using iron-oxide containing red clay. Red and black clay is used for decoration. Sometimes I also saw yellow, which I believe to be a lighter variant of the red clay or probably a mix. The only difference is that since Tibet is extremely dry, they have flat clay roofs, while here we get a lot of rain and traditionally had, and rarely still have thatched roofs.

[@Privateerblack]

+Lindybeige It's true! Arizona is an excellent example! There are still houses down here that are commonly made out of adobe (mud bricks).

[@pricklypear7516]

+Privateerblack I don't think, in Lindybeige's reality, that the New World has been discovered yet.

[@Ormesy]

ahh the algorithm strikes again, it's 3am and I'm learning about mud bricks

[@Paddy-zn4oo]

Its that time again

[@Volcker1929]

Wait till you see the Oblivion NPC shit, I've not slept in three days....

[@shmitty4117]

3 in the morning for me as well

[@nobodxy]

you look like a straight up gentleman explorer from indiana jones... i like it (no offense hopefully)

[@furchtegottgellert4865]

Otto Rahn. That is the real 'Indiana Jones'. Offending truth. Hopefully.

[@atomixage]

Anyone who takes offense from a comparison to Indiana Jones is an idiot

[@nataliebachina5584]

@@atomixage He does look like a colonialist in this video though...

[@atomixage]

@@nataliebachina5584 So? Who cares?

[@RickyVWorld]

Atomix Age she has been told colonialism = bad and that’s the script she runs with.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

_"Animal dung apparently improves the mixture quite significantly."_ You have to wonder how that was discovered... _"Hey, Bob! You got any more of that shit-mortar laying around?"_

[@XeLYoutube]

thats how i got suggested

[@fbiagent9666]

Nobleman: *sniff* "These walls smell weird." Builder: "Well all new things smell weird."

[@noobFPV]

I am glad that you have mentioned there is place for using mud bricks. I am amazed that architects today don't have brain to take into account geographical location when designing buildings.

[@dIRECTOR259]

Haha, can't you just look at him and tell he's a British tourist? :D

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

dIRECT0R nothing wrong with being a brit.

[@dIRECTOR259]

tigerhunter77 You may find that's a matter of opinion :D

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

dIRECT0R what's your opinion then?

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

dIRECT0R well our Guinness drinking uncle do love a good argument but hey what would the Family of the united kingdom be without a drunk uncle. yeah we always prepare a bit to extreme its part of our charm.

[@dIRECTOR259]

tigerhunter77 I do hate the Welsh, though. That's ok, right? xD

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

I live in a new mexico, where adobe bricks are very common. Many old buildings have 2 foot thick walls made of them, and they stay incredibly cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

[@lumburgapalooza]

I live in a Massachusetts and can confirm the inferiority of timber housing.

[@TheOnyxGeneral]

I live in Britain and can confirm the the superiority of sixteen inch thick, solid concrete walls.

[@qhutt4865]

Adobe's fantastic insulation.

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

The only problem is that it can insulate too much. My brother worked in a pizzeria built inside one of the old buildings, and during the rush hour they'd have a lot of people and a lot of pizzas being made. This lead to pretty uncomfortable conditions.

[@qhutt4865]

Jacob Furrow I can imagine. That's one time you *don't* want good insulation!

[@frespe8230]

I'm here because of recommendations, and I don't regret a thing.

[@judethedude96]

Why did I watch this? Why did I enjoy it?

[@lindybeige]

Rain runs off, and is quickly dried by the sun afterwards, but ground damp lingers. Outer layers of mud plaster wash off, and adobe buildings need recoating every now and then. Yes, sometimes walls are capped with stone, but usually not. Ingredients like lime in the outer washes can help.

[@Tolmalion]

Well I'm from Slovakia (much further north than Greece) and there are still some traditional houses made of mud bricks. Infact the house my grand parents used to live in is 150+ years old and not inhabited on regular basis these days as it serves as a holiday cottage and guess what: dampness is not an issue. The walls stand on stone foundations and are 60cm thick. So as long as your foundations and roof are sound there is no problem whatsoever. When you come in during the winter it takes two days of intesive heating but once the walls warm up it just holds the temperature better than most modern houses and in the height of summer you get off the grid air-conditionig for free.

[@DrewLSsix]

Tolmalion. thats great, but how will they fare after several centuries or millenia un tended and exposed to the weather? He didnt say they were not built north of any given point, but that ancient examples were prone to failure.

[@rarebear1013]

Not ancient, but here in England I have lived in a cob house that was believed to be 600 yr old

[@patty109109]

Tolmalion that is because of tremendous thermal mass. You could do the same with a modern house if you gave it 1-2’ thick concrete walls...

[@sarahprunierlaw9147]

I was wondering if cob was the same as mudbrick.

[@blacksquirrel4008]

Rarebear101 I wondered why he didn’t mention cob houses. I’m told they need a good hat and boots to be happy.

[@birocsabal]

Here in Hungary (and in the surrounding countryes) mud brick houses were very common from the earlyer times. Nowdays concrete and burnt brick supersede it, but there are still mud brick buildings in poor villages, built decades ago. And it looks like they are coming back with eco-movements (passive houses etc.). They can be protected from water by making a plaster of straw+mud mixture, than lime it. Plus the roof should overreech the walls about 2-3 feet if it is a onefloor building. And yes, big floods can wash mud brick houses away, so you should build them on high ground :) In old days it was common in the plains that the village was built on the hill (1-10m high), farmlands were on the hillside, and the pasture and orchard periodicly flooded at the bottom of the hill.

[@MeldinX2]

I always wanted to be a mudbrick when i was little :(

[@JiiHooMan]

But you couldn't cause it was too damp?

[@llaneelyort5599]

that would make his mom a "brick house" !!! hahaha...

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Aye, I went for it but couldn't afford the tuition. :/

[@dickhead8775]

I have always been a mad prick.

[@proxy90909]

I honestly dont frequently watch any recent activity from this channel but remained subscribed because I get recomended some of the most random and interesting pieces of human lore

[@ottopike737]

I'm so glad I found Loyd talking about mud bricks. they were such an underappreciated technology.

[@stephenandersen4625]

great in compression... limited use in any sort of tension but a great building material.

[@timeswaster]

Im very thrilled by you and your videos sir, I hope you have enjoyed the time you have spent in Turkey becouse your trip on Troy had flashbacked me to my childhood when we were on a tour.I hope you liked the historic and natural beuties of my country.Btw thanks for your slinging footages,they encouraged me to practise slinging.

[@lindybeige]

When it got far too much to cope with, about six months ago. This means that now most comments go unread. I usually look at the comments for the first few days and then let it go. I used to get thirty a day, now I get hundreds a day.

[@Altrantis]

Where I'm from we have dry summers but we have 1200 mm of rainfall in winter and the air humidity is usually above 70% even in sunny summer days. Yet we still have mud bricks. The reason is basically because we were colonized by spaniards who did everything like they were in spain, and because slightly to the north we have mediterranean climate. It is possible to keep the mud bricks in such a climate. Over here they did so by making the base with cooked bricks and covering with lime.

[@kevinsullivan3448]

I did an electrical upgrade to an 1860s adobe ranch house in 1997. I had to drill holes through the 18in think walls to run some of the wiring. The previous electrical upgrade had been done in the 1930s and the original knob and tube wiring was still in use. The ranch house its still in use today.

[@mistahsusan2650]

18 inch walls? My god, that's nearly a foot and a half...

[@ruben1475]

Very informative and interesting. This is also a very good argument against people saying that African cultures are primitive for building houses out of mud bricks.

[@lindybeige]

Crumbling mud brick walls are much less deadly than collapsing stone ones in an earthquake. After the quake, it is easier to dig people out of mud dust than stone rubble, and it is much easier to rebuild and repair the houses. I am no expert on this, but so far as I know mud brick houses also suffer badly in quakes, but the consequences of quakes are easier to fix. Many adobe houses that get bombed and flattened in airstrikes in modern wars quickly reappear.

[@K4g4m1]

I expected a boring video about bricks and i was pretty disappointed. It's actually a very interesting video.

[@NestorCheca]

I'm from spain and it's very common to see old (half 20th century) mud bricks houses and buildings. Now I'm living in a very dry area (Zaragoza, we even have a desert: Los Monegros) and those constructions are find everywhere.

[@NonciclopediaForEver]

I come from Moldova, which is a fairly damp country, and a type of clay bricks (Chirpici, there's a wikipedia article on them) are still used. They aren't proper "mud bricks", but the concept is fairly similar.

[@lindybeige]

Very good. Many still in use today.

[@donmiller2908]

I know this video is old but this is the first time I've seen it. Very informative because I've been reading a book called "The Ancient Engineers" by L. Sprague de Camp in which the author goes into detail about the use of mud bricks. So seeing actual objects constructed of mud brinks was interesting.

[@sarcasmo57]

The wife and I are planning to build a mud brick house next year. We will document construction for youtube.

[@Munch180]

Well, it's been a year.

[@milk2percent416]

Where's the vid

[@jenniferwainwright949]

Where can I find your vid? It's been a year.

[@Verwestnix]

she probably only told him: u wanna do my in my mud hud XD

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@Verwestnix kinda gross lol

[@lindybeige]

WaD houses are held up by wood, with the daub just used as draught excluder.

[@Eternaldream00]

My grandma owns an old farmhouse that is partially built from mud bricks and this is The Czech republic so way further to the north. Also damp as hell if hell existed and was damp, the house has stood there for a century so...

[@hermaeusmora345]

Then those bricks have a high concentration of clay

[@cageybee7221]

@@hermaeusmora345 alot of european mud construction was actually mixtures of mud, clay, and sand in varying amounts as a sort of plaster, in bricks, or mixed with straw and built up like adobe. not to mention wottle and daub especially in britian the damp capitol of the world, where a mesh of sticks and timbers is filled in with mud mixted with clay and straw and then coated over with a protective whitewash of lime.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Apparently West Africa forest peoples solved the issue with Mudbrick not resisting damp well by adding in Palm oil while higher up around lake Chad they just baked it into Brick. Edit On the point of dampness eroding Mudbricks, much of Forest West Africa doesn'ts have readily available Stone, so maybe that's why they discovered that palm oil mixture stuff there, however in the parts of West Africa where they don't do that (or doing that was too expensive), they apparently just did covered it in Mud mortar and periodically reapplied the Mud mortar.

[@Luciffrit]

I had a strange idea about how to weather proof a mud brick building. Make a slurry of the same materials minus the fiber but add ash and clay to it. Paint it against the walls roof etc then cast sand at it until it is completely sealed. Might not be enough against rain but as for air moisture.

[@jarniwoop]

Here is New Mexico, in the US of A, mud brick, or as we call it Adobe is still used. I live in a little adobe house and it's warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It's made from local clay soil, a bit of course sand and straw. The larger structures use buttresses of adobe brick for stability.

[@namonaite]

Some points about 4:3 it was an ancient aspect ratio often preferred since early 2000 monitors still relied on the form factor of CRT monitors without the width potential of LCD monitors.

[@PerryCJamesUK]

It's 8 years later, but any video with this title still has the ability to attract the likes of me.

[@5katz]

Thank you youtube, i needed this in my recommended right now

[@dmovila]

Greece is not the northern limit for mud brick buildings. You can find them in Romania as well. I live in such a house built in 1940 (part of it) and there is not a single crack in the walls.

[@cageybee7221]

alot of european mud constructions were actually mixtures of mud, clay, and sand in varying amounts. in britain and france and parts of germany whitewashing with lime was done to protect the structure from water beyond the protection offered by the inmixt clay.

[@spudhead169]

If you add in just the right quantity of gloob to the mixture, it makes the bricks much more hydrophobic; vastly increasing their moisture resistance. It does however reduce their strength as well so it's important to get the right amount and they must be fired quickly or you'll get expansion and air pockets in the bricks.

[@lindybeige]

Today it's the router. Before, it has been the keyboard, the operating system, and the hard drive. It also seems that it is impossible to get my capture card to work with it, and it has no Firewire port, so getting footage onto it is impossible by these two means, so I'll need to keep my old computer for those things.

[@XFanmarX]

I've learned a lot, but the most important thing I learned is that this gentleman really loves mud bricks.

[@atze3792]

There is actually at least one big mud brick wall north of Greece. The Heuneburg, a Celtic fortress on the river Danube had a mud brick wall in the 6th century B. C. The wall lasted for about 80 years and had been reconstructed in part since 1997. Meaning there is a considerable mud brick wall for 20 years now standing in southern Germany. Concerning your video, as always a pleasure.

[@lindybeige]

Sort of. In those buildings, the load-bearing work is done with wood, and the daub just keeps the wind out. When damp turns mud bricks soft, the whole wall sags.

[@Altrantis]

True. I hadn't considered that. However, I would argue that cooked bricks are a lot lighter than mud bricks, and they allow more air to flow if you're under a pile of them as opposed to mud bricks. However, the use of structural wood works better with mud bricks than cooked bricks, so the structure would indeed be stronger. With piled up stones, it depends. Are they stone bricks or are they differently shaped stones put together like a puzzle like the Incas would use them?

[@enkiimuto1041]

I would love a video about ancient materials used for buildings in different areas. Anyone got one?

[@enkiimuto1041]

***** Brilliant!

[@Katya_Lastochka]

Ancient materials used for building. You mean giant granite monoliths?

[@Moistiest110]

Never knew dirt bricks could’ve so interesting until 7 years later.

[@Moistiest110]

Thanks bruh

[@cinnamon3731]

Um thanks, this popped up in my recommended and now I know more about mud bricks.. I have no idea what I’m going to do with this knowledge but thanks.

[@adam-k]

Mud bricks were used in Hungary just 50 years ago and there is a revival of it since its actually good building material. The point I am making is that Hungary is a tad bit further north than Greece.

[@PapagiannisWoW]

Adam Koncz Same thing here in Greece, last ones must date about 50 years ago

[@valentinlance8072]

I know that many German houses in south west Germany are made of timbers with dung as insulation and they last a very long time.

[@CirageNoir]

+Adam Koncz : I'm pretty sure your masons also built stone or concrete foundations to isolate the structure from the ground. There are pretty much no pure brick structures from the Antiquity surviving to this day. They're all stone or a mix of stone and brick.

[@adam-k]

Hamsterzilla1349 In Hungary there are still quite a few pure mud-brick houses around. Without stone foundation. Pre WW2 they were the most common types of houses on the Great Plain. Nobody could afford importing stone from hundreds of kms and firewood was too expensive to waste on making fired bricks. Modern mud brick houses of course do have concrete or brick foundation.

[@DavidB5501]

+Adam Koncz Mud bricks can be used in northern climates provided they are protected from water. They need a damp-proof foundation, a good roof, and a render of plaster or lime. In England (especially East Anglia) houses were often built with mud bricks known as clay-lumps up to as late as the 1930s. Many of them are still standing. But if they are abandoned, the roofs will start leaking, the bricks will get wet, and eventually the whole building (except for the hard parts) will be washed away, so they won't be easy to detect in the archeological record.

[@skaboodlydoodle]

I'd also reason that one of the key elements of mudbricking is sun-drying. It's hard to use the sun as a resource the further into northern europe you go.

[@davidscott5898]

Errol in Scotland is a centre of construction using clay. One and two storey houses with lime harling

[@Villeum]

Really love these history lessons

[@kevinbyrne4538]

1:15 -- Modern brick walls (at least the well-built ones) have a bottom course of stone for the same reason: to prevent the damp from damaging the mortar between the bricks. 1:23 -- North of the northern coast of the Mediterranean people used wattle and daub, which is basically sticks that have been woven like a basket and then covered with ... mud.

[@sock1050]

This man has spoilt every damn movie that has bows, arrows, swords and castles in it for me. But I love him

[@heart0fthedrag0n]

Actually mud brick construction goes a bit more to the north. I live in Bulgaria (which is just north of Greece) and we do have a lot houses built with mud bricks. And by a lot I mean that about 30% of all houses in villages and rural today are built with mud bricks. Heck, our family's villa (which is our heritage house in a village in the mountains) is a big 2-story house built with mud bricks (and wood and stone of course) and it was built more than 200 years ago and still stands today. One thing that is required for a house made of mud bricks, though, is that the roof have a big overhang, going at least 1.5 - 2 meters from the walls on all sides. That prevents water from damaging the walls in heavy rain.

[@undac9590]

Those bricks you are talking about actually have clay and straw in composition. They are similar, but not the same things as the ones Lindy is talking about.

[@assasinpatates8066]

@@undac9590 But the people that built those houses don't really know what clay is. It's just soil that sticks good for them. Most of the brick houses in the world are also in the areas that have clay rich soil. Also most of the ancient civilazations are near clay rich soil because mud made of clay rich soil doesn't collapse. Near clay rich soil because clay is not really good for farming. But again people that live in villages doesn't know what clay is it's just sticky soil to them. You can't make a mud brick with a soil that has 0 clay because clay (and straws) is the thing that holds the mud together.

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

Sir, you have made a good case for mud bricks. I am living in the subarctic, and right about to build my new home out of mud bricks. When my friends in Nunuvut heard about what I was planning, they all laughed at me. But I just told them, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, there was this man on youtube telling me about the versatility of mud bricks." I believe I will add my own feces into the mixture. If I don't die of the cold before I complete my exceptional house of mud bricks.

[@Tilnaor]

Even up to Hungary mud brick were very popular material in the plain areas where no other sources, no stone, not even enough wood, only mud and straw. Due the more humid climate other, stronger version of mud walls were popular too, like compressed walls, where the mud get treaded between armatures as monolithic concrete nowadays. These structures, especially the compressed walls are still standing even after 100-150 years of abandonement, however not higher than one-two stories. I think that is the northermost border of the mud brick using

[@Palifiox]

If you have been along to Binalong, NSW, you can find mud brick buildings, one constructed about 1850.

[@hucklo]

It was used in Sweden where I live. So the upper limit for its use is a bit higher than Greece.

[@dpk_27]

KZbin in 2021: hey wanna see this 2013 video about mud bricks? Me in 2021: yeah sure

[@Sheppards1984]

2013 nope 2014 nope 2015 still nope ... 2021 Hey dude, how about some points about mud bricks

[@MajorMatt01]

What’s the issue? You still clicked on it... and it’s not like the information is out of date. Or was this just an excuse to make the most unoriginal joke on KZbin?

[@Sheppards1984]

@@MajorMatt01 1. Chill out 2. Nobody said anything about any "issues" 3. I watched the video 4. It was a joke about the youtube algorithm recommending videos that are totally unrelated to the main interests of people YEARS after the upload This has been going on for years now, youtube recommending random stuff, and we watch it, then suddenly it gets recommended to hundreds of thousands of people

[@TheSpiritFace]

@@MajorMatt01 What's the issue? Someone made a joke and you don't know how to laugh? Or was this just an excuse to be a dick to someone for no reason?

[@mindripperful]

09 Jan 2021: mud bricks

[@MajorMatt01]

@@TheSpiritFace this same joke is on every KZbin video uploaded before 2015. It’s not funny or original

[@nilton61]

Wood clad mud brick houses were quite common here in Sweden in the late 1800 and early 1900

[@ramlinshoes]

Love my mud brick house. 22” walls.

[@paistinlasta1805]

Well Lindy, eventhough there might be mud brick skyscrapers in Africa, most of the load still has to be carried by a steel frame. Steel is what made skyscrapers possible in the first place, and the curtain wall can be made from pretty much anything since it only has to keep the elements out.

[@elixdab]

Thanks for the recommendation KZbin, I’ve always wanted to know about mud bricks.

[@ShadeScarecrow]

When I clicked I was like "why tf did I click on a video about mudbricks" and afterwards I was just geniuinly interested. Thanks

[@kokofan50]

Mud brick in the form of adobe is still used some in the south west, US and northern Mexico, so it hasn't dyed out.

[@RolosReviews]

Literally one of those old fashioned British explorers. Just needs a pith helmet and the moustache!

[@Vinitachi]

I think the addition of steel rebar defeats the purpose of using mud bricks in the first place but yes, I also think it would help. Kind of like reinforcing a regular red brick building against an earthquake. Just not sure about the differences between the dynamics of rebar with mud and red bricks.

[@OtavioVeras]

And the algorithm thought I'd like to learn more about mud bricks. Well, it was actually a cool video. Thanks, algorithm!

[@cameronford2830]

Fascinating video, thanks.

[@moonlitegram]

I like that over 300k people at the time of this comment saw the title "some points about mud bricks" and actually clicked on it.

[@TunaFish556]

my right ear liked this video

[@6u6u7o]

Great commenting as usual. I wished I could hear you better though. Specially since English isn't my natural language. Cheers! ;)

[@TheSquidPro]

Roman industrial kiln baked bricks were pretty good it seems.

[@Jepson3000]

Please keep the archaeology series up. It's fantastic that we can learn about battle weapons and the like, but I'm more interested in ancient civilisations and how they worked than how to stab someone with a sword.

[@afinoxi]

FYI : Mud brick , or as it's known as "kerpiç" in Turkey , was one of the most common building material up into the 80s. It's not an inferior building material in the slightest. Very durable , especially in the scorching heat of Inner Anatolia and Southeast Anatolia where they're most common. They're still used for building seasonal farm houses from the shores of Agean to Inner Anatolia and still used for building cheap houses at Southeast Anatolia. It's cheapness and durability makes it popular for people without much money. You don't see them much in heavily built places like İstanbul , Ankara , Bursa , İzmir , Antalya etc , but they're quite common elsewhere. They're covered with some kind of plaster or a thin concrete layer for the extra durability and looks. Even in built up areas , if you go to the countryside or poor neighborhoods , it's very easy to find houses or stables etc made out of it. People like to also put frames out of steel bars on top of the bricks then cover it. Makes it more durable and stable. Also fun fact : "Kerpiç" sounds like "Kel piç" which means bald bastard. Please pronounce it properly or you might get punched. Just saying.

[@MrTomte09]

Lloyd, please make a few vids on a Roman villa, such as the Bignor Villa

[@jordan-H0wdyH0]

2000 year old adobe city. oldest still inhabited dwellings in North America. Taos New Mexico

[@Stephen-uz8dm]

Interestingly enough the beginnings of mud brick construction are actually mentioned in Genesis if I recall

[@Tinskap]

Those were some great points.

[@bunnyspvp]

Thank you for making this video about mudbricks, it's a shame the mudbricks don't last the test of time but I promise not to think little of them in the future. As for that I may enjoy some mudbrick wall or mudbrick gate pillars someday

[@maaderllin]

Ancient people more in the north would use mud, but not in the form of mud brick. They seem to have used wood structures, with straw roofs and branches pleating between the logs of the structure, on wich they applied mud so it could close the wall good.

[@2002gaby]

I live in a mud bricks made house and they are fairly common in my region.Of course some cement coating its needed for keeping the bricks dry and esthetics but yeah pretty good building material.

[@wilfdarr]

Gaby Tzu It's not cement, it's plaster. in my region, straw houses are becoming common, and they are coated with plaster which mostly sheds the rain and allows the straw inside to stay dry and rot free. Same principle for mud houses, though the issue isn't rot, but loss of adhesion.

[@elmirerodney2168]

Wilfred Darr pls tell me more about mud brick.I am very interested.is it solid, when raining, did it affect the brick.Thanks to answer me. my mail [e-mail]

[@martij30]

This has been in my recommended for the last week. Fine KZbin, I'll finally click it.

[@archis84]

I do not consider mudbrick an inferior material, because each material has his + / -. What about fire safty of your wood houses, what about pest and rot of wood? The mudbrick wall would stand aginst horizontal forces a lot better if it would be reinfoced with steel rebar in horizontal stitches or would have reinforces concrate strips under the slabs.

[@Esauofisaac]

You mentioned that the mud brick buildings were built with the lower areas in stone to keep from becoming damp. Surely though damp from rains must have eroded the buildings in that case? In such an event would it have been beneficial to have the top of buildings "capped" in a stone material as well?

[@MrMonkeybat]

So there is a northern limit but are not old wattle and daub, or cobb houses based on the same principle of dried clay. Just using a big enough hat and plaster for weather proofing.

[@nabaneetsharma451]

I was missing this information in my life

[@sofaoverlord7501]

Id just like to interject and say i grew up in a mud house and barn in Normandie, simmilar layout but they used straw to keep it locked together tightly and the mud is literally heaped into a wall. I dont know, but assume this was a northern solution to the damp problem? Worked well anyway.

[@bbroogs]

Do the mud bricks have a similar disadvantage to concrete when it comes to natural disasters like earthquakes, or do you think they would fair better? I believe that tensile strength was a major disadvantage of non-reinforced concrete before re-bar became widely used.

[@ecthelionalfa]

mud bricks are still being used today, you can do a lot of pretty stuff

[@christopherlawley1842]

Hang on. There's a mud built house near where I live. It has in fact been rescued by the Chiltern Open Air Museum and spent it's time as a pile of mud for a few years. It's a few miles west of London. I suppose that the mud being a local earth called wychert might be cheating a bit, but it's a very nice cottage they call "Haddenham Croft Cottage". I suppose, too, that being dried mud rather than mud bricks doesn't make it comparable either.

[@beafraidofinsectattack]

i cant believe this is 7 years ago

[@steven-cu1rk]

was in my recommended so i watched it, thats how my life goes