Step-by-Step Earthbag Building. This Instructable explains each main step of construction for building vertical earthbag walls.
Videos on my Earthbag Natural Building YouTube channel demonstrate the process. For those who don’t know, earthbag building uses polypropylene rice bags or feed bags filled with soil or insulation that are stacked like masonry and tamped flat. Barbed wire between courses keeps bags from slipping and adds tensile strength. The final plastered walls look just like adobe structures. Rammed Earth Constructions: Great Gallery Of Houses. Rammed Earth Constructions is a multi-award winning building company specialising in rammed earth projects, taking on full building and renovation projects and also subcontracting for rammed earth walls.
The company has extensive experience in building residential and commercial projects in a variety of styles and for a range of budgets. The company was established in 1989, originally to meet a strong demand for rammed earth homes in the newly established Crystal Waters Permaculture Village near Maleny, SE Queensland. There were a number of residents in the village who were keen to use rammed earth in their homes because of their interest in healthy, environmentally friendly and low maintenance buildings. Devon Earth Building Association, information about cob and earth building techniques, training courses and issues.
Build Your Own $20 Outdoor Cob Oven. (The following entry is all about making a cob oven, a lovely and inexpensive outdoor pizza oven.
The construction details have been trimmed back a bit, but this article should still give you a full idea of necessary materials and the building process for making your own oven!) I must admit, I’m a bit of a breadhead. Few things are as exciting to me as freshly baked bread with a dab of butter, or hot and greasy scallion pancakes, or fluffy and airy naan, or a pizza fresh from the hearth of a wood-fired oven. (That last one trumps all the others.) I thrive on bread.