Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

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Over 70 percent of Americans cannot come up with the money for to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in the use of natural materials—straw, cob, and earth—for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely largely on labor fairly than expensive and incessantly environmentally-damaging outsourced materials.

Earthbag Building is the first comprehensive guide to all of the tools, tricks, and techniques for building with bags filled with earth—or earthbags. Having been introduced to sandbag construction by the renowned Nader Khalili in 1993, the authors developed this “Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique” over the last decade. A reliable method for constructing homes, outbuildings, garden walls and a lot more, this enduring, tree-free architecture can be used to create arched and domed structures of great beauty—in any region, and at home, in developing countries, or in emergency relief work.

This profusely illustrated guide first discusses the many merits of earthbag construction, and then leads the reader through the key elements of an earthbag building:
Special design considerations
Foundations, walls and floors
Electrical, plumbing and shelving
Lintels, windows and door installations
Roofs, arches and domes
Exterior and interior plasters.

With dedicated sections on costs, making your own specialized tools, and building code considerations, in addition to a complete resources guide, Earthbag Building is the long-awaited, definitive guide to this uniquely pleasing construction style.

Kaki Hunter and Donald Kiffmeyer have been involved in the construction industry for the last 20 years, specializing in affordable, low-tech, low-affect building methods that are as natural as imaginable. They developed the “Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique” of building affordably with earthbags and have taught the subject and contributed their expertise to several books and journals on natural building.

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