The ULTIMATE GUIDE to Hyperadobe Earthbags: Pros, Cons, & Cost Savings

[@TinyShinyHome]

We hope you enjoyed this hyperadobe earthbag guide! If you need additional help check out these resources: HYPERADOBE WORKSHOP: Nov 9-15, 2024 tinyshinyhome.com/hyperadobe-workshop HYPERADOBE BAGS: tinyshinyhome.com/hyperadobebag COACHING: tinyshinyhome.com/coaching

[@_c_y_p_3]

What dirtbags! 💙

[@lelarex888]

Can you build like this in Florida? Sarasota area? Very humid, hurricanes, LOTS of rain year round. Very tropical climate

[@LoveDogs___3]

Pretty sure pine and nails are natural building sources. They do come from the earth. Actually alot of building materials that are used to build a normal home are. Definitely more than not.

[@ericbstudios9807]

Looked like you guys intentionally put a small amount of pebbles between layers? Is this integral to the design? Thanks for the time and effort on the vid

[@TinyShinyHome]

Ashley likes to do this to give the layers a little more "bite" into the next bag. Jonathan doesn't like to do this because especially when high up on the wall, having stuff you might loose your footing on is dangerous. Can't hurt, but probably not necessary :)

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

I’m a 68 year old retired general contractor/building inspector/plans examiner/Chief Building Official & Director of Building and Safety, who wished I could have worked another decade or two, so that I could have worked on getting cities and counties to become more accepting of alternative construction methods and materials. I would love to build just one more house for myself, but I don’t know if I have the stamina or strength to do it. I would have loved trying this building method if only I were five or ten years younger.

[@Dundrakan]

get involved with groups that are trying for approval or who teach the skills. Your knowledge and experience would be valuable . Dont have to move the barrows yourself if you have a horde of info and skill hungry youngsters to do it for you

[@EliecerFalcon]

Let me know and I’ll help ya build one!

[@sharonmontgomery7739]

@@EliecerFalconid like to talk more about this, too.

[@yomamajo]

Just as I thought. I knew people would be rushing to help you keep at it :)

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

@@yomamajo Thanks for your reply and the replies from others. I’m not in a position right now to build a new home, but I’m interested in finding a group of like minded people who want to build a small community together that I can join and contribute my knowledge and experience in building to the group effort.

[@RelentlessSoul]

My grandfather was born in 1901 and built an adobe home for his family, by hand, brick by brick. The plaster over the walls eventually started to fall apart around the 2000's. But today, the house is still standing. The walls are still in tact. Great video.

[@anim8dideas849]

how old are you, Im guessing 50-55? just curious btw.

[@WetbackNoSetback]

Im from mexico, my grandpa was an indigenous man, when i was a lil kid, my mom gifted the old man an acre, i was 5, he had me be his lil helper as he dug up clay, built a kiln & made bricks, i spent my entire life trying to replicate that moment of achievement when i saw him build himself a free house

[@WetbackNoSetback]

@@anim8dideas849his parents wouldve been born around the mid 20’s i doubt your estimation is anywhere near correct, the dude is in his 70’s more than likely

[@johngrady1755]

Feels like I'm watching a professional documentary series. You two are incredible.

[@reglindiseckhardt9777]

I am a retired teacher in northern Canada. The information you have shared is amazing and very clear. I wish you well.

[@TinyShinyHome]

Thank you!

[@Pam-h4u]

I doubt u can use this method in cold frigid climate countries like canada but u can try

[@charlidabomb3723]

Yeah no. This is perfect for southwest united states and other deserts. Not cold climes at all. Doesn't mean they aren't warm. Bc it gets cold in the desert too. Just not that bitter cold for such long stretches.

[@Bonnyladdadventures]

​ a good rocker stove mass heater installed would solve that

[@skepticbb93]

I'm just a city boy, but I'm glad to know that there are still very smart people out there focused on this type of construction. Because I see a lot of unsustainable stuff happening around me usually.

[@paultiki9968]

This is one of those techniques you can examine, save money, buy raw land and then build debt free.

[@WalterGordyCanada]

@@paultiki9968 Just go visit New Mexico. People are still making adobe houses... in cities... without bags.

[@kathyhennigan7807]

This is the classic video for anyone wishing to use this building method. Great information in an easily understandable format. I hope it gets millions of views for you!

[@brightlord-ov7cm]

94k left to 1mil.

[@kateapple1]

BOT

[@cybermex90]

Content like this makes KZbin feel like a blessing. Great Video

[@SharonDayLifeArchivist]

You two are not just doing something innovative and brilliantly logical, but beautful, and earth-kind. The fact you share it makes you trailblazers!

[@TheGrinningViking]

The switch to wood instead of sod was historically because of water getting in, mice, mould, bugs. It's good to see that, in dry open climate, technology has advanced to the point that it's less of a concern.

[@cvzphotography]

I spent the weekend making a extension on my driveway with compacted chat and did all the tamping by hand. It gave me soooooo much more respect for everything you're doing and how hard you all work!

[@hopeherring1567]

😮❤

[@maodonimega]

Oh my God… This is the definitive resource for hyperadobe building. I wish I had all this information before I started my Round hyperadobe building. In the end I did okay… Used a dolly to fill the bags which made life easier. Now my sister has an hyperadobe art and craft building in her back garden in the UK. Thank you so much for sharing all your hard knowledge. GENIUS.

[@Healitnow]

I am 75, fully trained in housing construction and apartment maintenance, and have done this since about 1967. I have never once thought of this, but it is a great idea. God Bless.

[@trentshepherd9518]

Tiny Shiny Home inspired us to build our own motorhome and hit the road 5 years ago. Now here we are getting super inspired to build a stationary home with hyperadobe! Much respect to you all thank you for sharing your wisdom and stoke!!

[@TinyShinyHome]

Aww thanks so much :)

[@Mitsey123]

When I saw the bottles I thought of putting a note in one or two, so that future generation will know how, when and why these buildings were built

[@anonthehousemouse]

Hell, use them to store pages from a journal!

[@chriswf]

Great idea!

[@stephenkennedy7931]

Amazing video and so informative I really enjoy watching your videos I'm 72 and a retired general contractor I don't think I will be building anything else but truly love watching you succeed. God Bless from your Canadian Friend.

[@Korina42]

Are you familiar with Earthships? They're also very cool.

[@donnataylor6129]

Thank you so much. I’ve been following you from Australia. I am building a dome home for myself and my son is building a small house for himself. Your video today help tremendously. I was wondering why you weren’t putting the barbed wire in, now I now. I think the hyperadobe will be much better for my son’s build, cheaper and easier. I shared your video to him so he could also take advantage of your extensive knowledge. Wonderful video, thank you for your help. It will make our build a lot better!!

[@shelleyboom5594]

Ya'll are amazing. Thank you for sharing and giving this retired woman another option other than living in a tent/car.

[@gracierose3076]

I'm sure someday that land will bloom and be green. I would love the quiet and the sunsets, listening to the Cayotes howling at night with the full moon above.

[@corriehordyk3342]

If African can make the desert green, you can make your area green!!

[@vilatile]

that place already looks plenty green though?

[@LocusFelix]

A permaculture fruit forest would be awesome to have on the property, veggie patches as well, don’t even need to use the current soil put in raised garden beds and bring soil in with you.

[@santturantanen8328]

Climate change is only going to make the place dryer

[@kkon5ti]

Coyotes

[@greevar]

I've seen a variant of this where they use a hopper mounted on a tractor arm. The mix falls from the hopper into the bag like the double bucket and the tractor lays the bag down like a 3D printer. It goes really fast.

[@PixelatedPuzzlements]

legit good solution

[@kingsteel2972]

Finally, the real minecraft dirt house experience!

[@lynxthewise7233]

If it keeps the creepers out its enough!

[@missmartamc]

I am so impressed with the knowledge you have gained and your ability to share it cohesively. In addition, you two just feel like wonderful old friends, people one would want to spend time with. You are beautiful, sun kissed and radiant, and are exhibiting the joy that can come with hard work, something our world seems to have lost in these new days of technology, relegating the phrase "hard work" onto the list of dirty words. Thank you for reminding the world thru your blood, sweat, and tears. And of course, thru your beautiful smiles. Many blessings in all that you put your hands to, Marta

[@lymmerik]

Fantastic, as usual. You all are a wealth of knowledge. You are a valuable asset to our community. I am very thankful that you chose Cochise County!

[@paulas_lens]

You guys are such good teachers. What a service you are providing! High Five!

[@draqu19]

With the price of houses this days, I can see this method growing more and more. Great job

[@StoneKathryn]

Yay, another Longnecker family video to watch! I like how you are talking about why to build with earthen walls. It's always good to explain the pluses and minuses of building methods. I really like how you talk about the thermal mass transfer of heat and the earthquake and fire resistance of the structures. Good to know. I love how you explain how to fill your hyperadobe bags with each method. You gave really good advice about avoiding cavities in the bags and tamping the layers properly. I like how the hyperadobe bags don't have to do "the vortex" like you have to do with the stiffer and slipperier superadobe bags. It's great that you don't have to use the barbed wire between the layers or courses. The curved wall versus straight wall construction seems pretty needed in the superadobe walls and you can build domes with it. The buttresses can be a problem for long straight walls or door openings too! I loved how you address the problems with flooding and rodents for the foundation even like raising the whole building above the flood plain. Trenching and using gravel below the foundation for better drainage under the foundation is like drain tiling for regular building. Putting a vapor barrier like you did on the foundation wall facing a flood plain is a good feature too. Great discussion of openings through the hyperadobe walls needing the lintels over the openings or an arch form are really good details to know about. Locking the opening frames in with the cleats every few courses is a definite must to keep doors and windows stable in the building. I know you didn't have to say anything about below the foundation but planning the plumbing under the foundation is important too. I'm glad you mentioned the hurricane straps to put in the walls several courses below the roof you install to hold it on in high winds. I love the bottle bricks you put at the top of the hyperadobe walls to fill in below the pitched roof and the top of the hyperadobe walls. Filling the window spaces in with bottle bricks is a beautiful accent to the buildings also. The roof also held down with the Simpson hurricane ties is good to know too for the rafters to the roof support boards, often LVLs. I have been so impressed by your quest to find the right plaster for the outside of your buildings. The earthen plaster inside the building is fantastic too. I love how you did the linseed oil floor on the solar power shed. The Shou Sugi Ban treatment to preserve the wood exposed on the buildings has been great to learn about too! It has been wonderful to watch you build your homestead in the desert Longnecker family! Thanks for showing us how to do this. You guys rock!

[@gracierose3076]

My Ancestors were building somewhat the same thing years ago when they crossed the prairie in schooners. They settled in the West in Custer County Nebraska in the1800s and had only sod to stack for homes. I have a picture that was taken by Solomon Butcher who traveled to all the homesteads In Custer County and had them stand out in front of their Soddy and he would take their picture. Not quite as modern but they did the trick for a while. I remember my grandma talking about living in one as a child. The Indians would look in the windows and her mother would give them bread. Some were built better than others.

[@TinyShinyHome]

That is SO COOL I love it!

[@cynthiadugan858]

There is a sod house museum in northern Oklahoma near where I grew up. They built a metal building over a sod house to preserve it and you can go there, see the house and even go inside. It’s very cool. It’s difficult to imagine a sod house if you have never actually seen one.

[@sarahstrahm3072]

I'm from Nebraska too.❤ There are stories of cattle grazing on the roof of some of the sod houses and occasionally a foot would pop through. 😁 (But these type of sod houses were usually the type where they dug into the side of a hill and then the front made of sod.

[@dottier3145]

My great grandma also welcomed everyone who came by including Indians with bread, or whatever she had to eat.

[@mkjohnson7826]

My dad was born in 1907 and he grew up in a sod home.

[@dianaj3139]

Thank you for the very complete description and comparisons. The buildings you have already completed are very cool! Hopefully your progress beats out the bad weather... Love the place you have built from the ground up.

[@richavic4520]

It's been a while. All I can say is, "WOW!" Your persistence is admirable.

[@Homested_Happenings]

I enjoy seeing your hyperadobe guide here but I'm fascinated and in awe of how the land itself has been developed.

[@alexisleon23]

You should be in teaching. You have so much talent, apart from the builder+architect talent !!! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷. Best wishes for all

[@totherarf]

I think they Are ...... just not in a "traditional" classroom!

[@Leo-nine]

Shiny happy people building tiny shiny homes. Love it❤

[@fredshwiller4703]

I am a carpenter and in the 70's I worked for a contractor in Corrales, NM. For the roofs we would build the roofs from 4"x10" beams 4' on center with 2x6 T&G with a second sloped roof2/12 pitch) over filled with loose fill insulation with valleys that went to the scuppers in the parapet wall.

[@RustyBobbins]

This is the best presentation of adobe building I’ve ever seen! Great job!

[@ronniewilkerson2027]

Thank y'all for sharing. Most don't know how capable they are until someone like yourself's show them. We are all more capable than we think. Never let someone tell you your not. You can do anything you set your mind to. Congrats to your entire family.

[@woofwoof-w4g]

I built a geodesic dome in CA with my future husband when we were in our 20s. I had a blast watching this video. It looks FUN but it is hard work. You are building something remarkable, sensible and beautiful! Bravo.

[@MC-qb1jg]

I have learned so much from ya'll. I've been following you since you started the chicken garden. Along the way ya'll have shared the ups and downs, the do's and the don't.

[@AdobeDregsCoffee]

Awesome Sauce! Thank you! I just ordered the 12" bags for my outdoor shower build! I can't wait! I will rewatch the shower build for my design, and yes Ashley it is going to be circular in design, not the square I was thinking before we spoke about it at the Building conference in Rodeo, NM.

[@TinyShinyHome]

Whooo!!!!

[@missmartamc]

Hey! My sister lives in the tiny town of Rodeo! I would have LOVED to join in on the conf you speak of! Is it held annually in Rodeo?

[@AdobeDregsCoffee]

@@missmartamc I believe it was the first annual conference. It was on May 18th. It was great! There was a whole day of speakers talking about their accomplishments, failures, and expectations. I have a strawbale house on 35 acres, so it was good to see other types of building with sustainable and renewable resources. You might be able to google the conference or look up the website. I don't have the info but it should be pretty easy to find on google. thanks have a good one!

[@TheWebcrafter]

1:00 - EARTHBAG HOMES - I first heard of 'earthbag' homes a few years ago when I came across a family's KZbin channel called mylittlehomestead. Similar to a 'barn raising', the entire family would work on building one 'home' for one of the children. Once that home was completed, the family would build the next 'child's home. and so on.

[@alienapks]

Where am from🇺🇬🇺🇬 in the villages, We use 2 rows of tree stems since wood is in plenty.... Then we get some smaller sticks or bamboos and we first divide their stems with a panga 3. Them we nail them on the sides of the 2 rows that we stamped firmly into the earth to make a square or circular foundation. 4. Them we just fill the four sides or circle with wet mixed dirt till to the top tall like a normal room them we roof it 5. Roof the root under and you have a free all natural room . Then u can apply all the outter cement coating 🎉🎉🎉

[@AndIDressBetter2]

Have you considered trying a small lawn roller for tamping? Walking along the walls pushing a roller seems like it would have less impact on your back and shoulders and I'm curious if it would work.

[@TinyShinyHome]

No you have to actually compact it 👍🏼

[@katjames914]

There are mechanical tampers, compacting machinery that might help with that, but you would need ramps, and some muscle to “drive” it carefully so it didn’t fall off the sides.

[@TinyShinyHome]

Yeah it'd be helpful for lower layers but get sketchy up above 5' or so.

[@jadecampbell2446]

THANK YOU Jonathon & Ashley for sharing your experiences in such detail, you have me excited about other possibilities to build in adobe again! Your ideas are definitely quicker, easier and more cost effective than our Mud Brick home we built over 3 decades ago!!! Adobe = Rammed Earth walls or Mud Bricks , made from compositions of soil / clay mixed with hay /twigs/fibres meshed with water and contained until the supports can be removed and allowed to dry completely before you make a render to seal - these have been made world wide for thousands of years and originally animal faeces were mixed into a flurry with water and soil to seal the walls and make them watertight. Nowadays people use various sealants such as Bondcrete which we used 12 to 20 layers of back then, to form an outer skin on the walls internal & external. Using barbed wire, twine, and fine bamboo to lay between to knit the rows/layers together with various commercial such as concrete and natural products like soil/water combined to act as bricklaying mortar have been used in more recent times. OUR STORY - MUD BRICKS in the High Country in Bright a Tourist town in country Victoria Australia. Decades ago in Bright Nth Eastern , we built a mud brick house 260 sq m after purchasing a book "Build Your House Of Earth" by GF Middleton which gave a huge variety of methodologies, in order to design our house. We made our bricks 10" thick x 5"deep x 15"Long (they weighed 40lb each)and we created the house structure as Post and Beam the posts being 1.6m apart to allow electrical wiring, power points and fixing options for attaching cupboards etc.. External Temperatures in Summer up to 40 Degrees centigrade and below zero overnight in winter when it snowed - however with the 10” thick walls our temperatures remained between 18-23” all year round , magical! We had designed and previously built other homes prior to this, and since, however since building that Mud brick we have wanted to build another, because the peace/security and internal temperatures were amazing and we have always missed that house. We had a contractor come in with a tractor to process our Red Soil, then soak it all, cover with tarpaulins overnight, soak it again, cover over and leave again, and keep checking daily for moisture content with tool, this occurred over several weeks, then it was thoroughly mixed again with tractor & compactor, then funnelled into mud brick metal molds made to size, with just enough moisture content to hold it’s shape to be stacked with air space in between each one to thoroughly dry - this took around 2 months, which gave us time to pour concrete foundations Post & Beam Construction and roof on complete with a 6ft verandah & path all the way around, so then all we had to do was lay the bricks in between the posts to form the internal & external walls. This was built on acreage 180ft up from the Road on a 2 acre plateau we had a bulldozer cut out for our Home, Parking, yard, and levels below for gardens and vegies etc… however the Kangaroos, Bunnies and Wombats decimated the vegies, but we were grateful that the Wombats didn’t tunnel into our house!! Or the ledges, or decide to reside in the massive concrete water drains placed on angles down our long steep driveway up to the house. We had State Forest behind us, hence the abundant wildlife, and the Ovens river below on the opposite side of the road , so our driveway became an easy thoroughfare for the wildlife to get ice cold water to drink!!

[@pinballrobbie]

In a couple of thousand years , someone will uncover your home, and tell stories about how you were hunter gatherers, and that this building was for religious purposes.

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

I read a readers digest article as a kid about bathrooms that was just that! 🤣🤣🤣

[@SPDLand]

...and that, at that time, a whole civilisation lived in such houses yet tragically only few remained...

[@Cepheidvariable]

😂😂😂 Innit.

[@Nomadicshieldmaid75]

😂

[@Nomadicshieldmaid75]

Annunaki refugee tech

[@michelangelosalmoiraghi2227]

Wow great job! This is a clear, concise presentation and I am feeling re-inspired to build this way. I built the first urban Cob structure in the US in Eugene, OR. in 1996, It is featured in the color pics section of The Hand Sculpted House. I live back home on the youngest island of Hawaii nowadays, where there is not much clay in the ground, and have considered earthbags as a way to build earth walls as an alternative to Cob. The book Earthbag Building mentions on page 16 that there are alternative options to using soils or aggregates with little to no clay content.

[@maws8810]

The way you work together and explain how to build is magnificent!!! ❤❤❤

[@seansiegler]

I'll probably never do this, but I found it really informative and entertaining! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion!

[@dimensionalfuse1810]

Thank you. You two really gave great information. Although I would love doing this 30 years ago when I had more time than money, I still love dreaming … and watching you is my next best way. Thanks again!!

[@redcloud870]

This is truly the best video out for earthbag building!

[@extraincomesuz]

I am so proud of you and your family for doing this together and sharing with the world online! I live in Malaysia now but spent my younger years in Arizona. Beautiful places! Take care! Great info!❤🎉😊

[@Nighthawkinlight]

This is a great no nonsense video. Thanks!

[@TinyShinyHome]

Hey thanks! :)

[@LUMIN69]

hello NightHawkinLight, does this mean were getting a hyperadobe video from you soon? lol

[@spiritfilled5758]

Thank you for supplying this knowledge. I hope that society will come to value our amazing planet and work to live within and sustain our natural world. Be blessed

[@monicawilson4767]

Wow guys……..I’ve watched you all along in your process, but this was so informative and cool to watch. You’ve started a wonderful community of interested people who appreciate alternate ways of building/living. Great video! So proud of your progress, looking forward to learning more as you continue. 🙏🏽😎

[@allenhudson3519]

Thank you. I'm impressed with the build and the process, as well as the 2 of you as a couple. You are truly an inspiration

[@u2cancatchme]

I'm amazed at all the hard work, it's astounding. You make it look easy 😂 So happy for y'all it's exciting to see step by step 🎉❤

[@craigsailors]

I am very excited to buy property and start a build. do you need a building perment in AZ before attempting such a build.

[@Dovietail]

Excellent! We have a twelve acre hilltop property with sixty mile views in just about every direction north of Prescott. We are kicking around ideas about how to develop it. 3-4 hyperbag hacienda tiny homes would be amazing!

[@thethirdchimpanzee]

AWESOME!!! I LOVE ADOBE AND RAMMED EARTH AND BUILDING WITH NATURAL MATERIALS!!

[@ugrasaydin490]

After 30 second i clicked the like button and i am writing this. (i never comment) you guys have light of love going around you. So happy to see people like you.

[@TinyShinyHome]

Aww thanks so much :)

[@sarahstrahm3072]

I absolutely love the chicken castle. 😊

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Been watching yall for years while you and your kids learn and follow your lead. Im 80 years old and kearned from machine gun nests from sand bag fortifications in the 60s Im old and too weak to work that heavy stuff. Yall have done well. Dandaherit.I live up above the snowline. All solar wind wood srtesusn year round spring.

[@physina]

Great job! Thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge with others! Build on -

[@101mazz]

I'll never build anything like this, but it is really unique and I can appreciate the work and creativity here.

[@alkey7266]

200 years into the future the history Channel will have a show called dirt circles built by aliens

[@ChristopherJRozell]

Lmfao 😂😂😂😂

[@cristianwoodford907]

Hi there! I got interested in natural building in my early 20’s, I’m from Australia and travelled to America to learn about earthships. I spent a few months in NM doing a short course. When I arrived home I realised I didn’t have the skills I needed so I undertook a carpentry apprenticeship to get a better understanding. After getting some knowledge I realised in Australia our building codes are way too strict to make it easy to build something like that without spending a heap on permits, planning, engineering etc. Have you spoken with anyone interested in superadobe in Australia? I’d be really keen to find out about their experience as I love the look and feel of these homes. Something just feels so right when inside. Thankyou!

[@TinyShinyHome]

hayden at Curvatecture :) he's your man!

[@MQ-cw9qx]

Thank you so much for doing all the work to put this video together---to say nothing of all the work you've done to have the video to put together. Well done!

[@ajarnrichard5386]

I love this method. Have been following for years. Built 3 structures myself. Found an easy way to eliminate that treacherous barbed wire from the super adobe method. Excellent video! Thanks for sharing.

[@TarsonTalon]

Now THIS is a awesome cheap home invention that I can get behind. I was REALLY ticked off by the idea of 3D printed mud huts, not gonna lie. I just felt like it was quite the waste of technology to recreate something our ancestors could create by hand; such backwards thinking. Felt like it was just gatekeeping SOMETHING PEOPLE CAN DO NATURALLY. To be honest though, I'm getting kinda sick of how land ownership works; corporations should not own single family homes, and society shouldn't be able to tell the homeless they can't build their own homes.

[@Bellatopia]

You guys are amazing! LOVE these little houses...and the shape of the round house is very asthetically pleasing as well as healthy energetically...LOVE your videos!

[@grandmasmiles7955]

Wish we were 30 years younger. A family that works

[@justintreon]

Just make the house out of earthblocks made or delivered onsite. Much less labor intensive. It is just Legos. You just need to make sure to do the plumbing FIRST.

[@TinyShinyHome]

If you make the bricks how is it less labor intensive?

[@jwr429]

Love this house. I have a folder full of blurprints and different layouts for cob houses. I love the concept of round houses.

[@jacobhency3388]

Before watching this video, I vaguely knew of the existence of this method. Now, I feel like I could confidently design and build a home on my own, using these. Very well done.

[@TinyShinyHome]

Awesome!! :)

[@nomorehate9176]

Great overview!! Not too shallow, not too deep but very comprehensive! Thanks!!

[@Smithcraft1]

You two are great presenters and I feel better for having watched this video about a really interesting subject.

[@danielnelson6971]

New subscriber! You guys have beautiful warming smiles! I learned a ton and am sharing this to another community! Great Video!

[@gm_turtle]

this is so cool and its so awesome how clearly knowledgeable you guys are through so much trial and error!

[@dravonwalker2352]

Marvelous! I’ve been a huge fan of Earthships for a long time now. Replacing the tires with this option is a great option. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience of this technique.

[@stevechavez228]

I've been a butcher for all if my life and I have absolutely no carpentry experience but I'm still going to give this a try over and over until I get it right !!! Thx

[@TheHavasu_77]

I love your informational videos! I also loved the way you pronounced tomato when saying Hayden likes the tomato cans. 😂 Have a great Sunday and I love you guys! 😊❤

[@DaTo-k1o]

I first saw yall when you just got your property. I just wandered back and am in awe. Great job!

[@TinyShinyHome]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@charles.coslor]

16:38 the math does not make sense. firstly, 24' x 24 = 576' not 567' but that's minor. what I'm really confused about is where 1,640 comes from. because that should be the final amount of linear feet needed, then you should be dividing it by the length of the roll (which in this formula should be 567') to get 2.8 rolls. I really wonder if in fact they meant to divide 576' by 1640' to get 0.35 roll (especially considering how small of a structure they used in the example: 3' x 9' by 12' high). in fact I checked the Volm website and their HDPE tubular mesh comes in 500 meter rolls, i.e. 1640'. so they just did the math wrong. don't make their mistake or you'll be buying a lot more rolls than you need for your project. the formula is [total linear feet] / 1640 = # of rolls needed

[@TinyShinyHome]

Man I knew I made those graphics too fast 😂. Thanks for catching that, wish YT made it easier to update existing videos 🤦

[@THEMHGIII]

Thanks for being an open resource for knowledge and understanding of alternative building materials/solutions sharing your experience and ideas with the wider public.

[@LB-gr7gu]

Brilliant 👍 much Love !!

[@Heather-kz7tn]

That circular design is so beautiful, reminds me of the golden ratio spiral. Thank you for the vid/info!

[@aearthwise]

Fantastic video, what a wonderful guide, thank you 🧡💛🧡

[@Denise-r6m5d]

I love this idea, as i have raw land & want to use the dirt & sand, startin from the cleared & leveled dirt 🤩... Thanks. Subscribed 🥰.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Nice overview Guys👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@YnezSage]

I'm planning on making my own dirt home years down the line but this video is perfect with the information Im looking for! You guys are inspirational!!

[@TinyShinyHome]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@deborahberkey4294]

A nice educational and easy to understand video. 👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@tracybrown512]

First time I have seen you. Thank you, for the no nonsense approach. I enjoyed your frankness and helpful hints. It made me realize, a bit more labor intensive than I can accommodate for now. Your step by step is the best I have experienced so far on KZbin. Some made it sound so simple and easy. (Which I realized early on, that cannot be true.). So thank you. Keep up the awesome work and videos. I look forward to seeing what you accomplish in the future

[@jeangurnee]

Would hyperadobe work in a climate other than yours? Say Pacific Northwest?

[@TinyShinyHome]

There's a YT channel that built hyperadobe up north: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jITWYnmiqbB8g6M

[@Cookielady_1]

if you lived and built in a area that gets a lot of snow in the winter what would you do differently and would you need to go a lot deeper on the foundation and use Portland cement on the whole thing?

[@gailasgreatdanesandmanes1042]

This is so incredibly helpful!

[@lovemylife816]

Such a cool thing that you're doing! Beautiful structures, honest presentation of the workload and considerations too - It was very well thought out. Thanks.

[@Will_Forge]

If I do this, I will be far too tempted every time I stub my toe on a door frame to call my house a dirt bag.

[@davidboland8879]

😂😂😂

[@Lora-r6s]

Brilliant, "hyper-informative" and extremely well-done video! You two are great teachers! Many thanks! I'm considering this type of build for a remote homestead in the mountains of the northwest US.

[@Nancelot13]

Awesome video y'all 👍

[@ibidthesecond]

You've done a great job making this alternate building method look like a legitimate building technique with thought to mitigating real world drawbacks. So many alternate building methods come off as particularly talented homeless people building things out of mud and trash. I'm not sure I'm willing to build a whole house like this, but I will be keeping this in mind for an outbuilding design someday.

[@TambraCooper]

You all are so awesome

[@GregSidberry]

Love the connection and love y’all have for each other

[@sassyh154]

Great information, thank you sharing...

[@karieclingo8328]

Thank you! This is super helpful. Your family looks super nice, too. What a great thing to teach children!