Earthbag Earth Floor

This is an open source guide to the excavation and construction details of the footer foundation and flooring for earthbag construction domes.

Earthbag earth floor.

Earth floors tend to get lumped together as one type of floor. Built with gravel sand clay straw and linseed oil it is made of local natural materials except for a plastic moisture barrier necessary in our area. It is the most comprehensive and detailed earthbag home building of its kind and we are making it an even more comprehensive earth home construction guide with our crowdfunding campaign and the building of the one community complete earthbag village. This particular design looks beautiful against the.

Tamp it flat then a thin layer of concrete. How to pour a rammed earth floor adobe floor by tony sirna at dancing rabbit ecovillage we ve found our earthen floor adobe floor hybrid to be a cheap easy to install durable ecological flooring solution. This unique almost hobbit like earth sheltered design includes a large grow bed exposed timber ceiling and living roof. A bag filled with earth.

That s one of the main reasons i decided to list eleven different earth floor methods because most people can t or don t want to wait weeks or months. Amazon s choice for earthbag bags upnorth sand bags empty white woven polypropylene sandbags w ties w uv protection. 14 x 26 qty of 100 4 5 out of 5 stars 1 515. In the interests of learning a craft and also minimising the embodied energy of the building we really wanted to take the earthen route.

The bags are stacked to create buildings of various sizes and shapes quickly and relatively simply. In this video y. So as you can tell with this home design your imagination is the limit with an earthbag home. Posted in design economics introduction structural aspects tagged earth floor earthbag earthbag building earthbag house soil cement tamped earth floor permalink.

Interior spiral plus pantry 2 bedroom 1 bath. Suggestions please and links if anyone has done this. Interior dome 740 sq. A step by step tutorial on making an earthen floor sourced from a mix of materials such as clay sand and straw similar to cob and adobe.

I am considering an earthbag floor on top of 6 mil plastic sheeting. Poured adobe is probably the slowest drying method. Adobe style earth shelter. This is another example of how an earthbag home doesn t have to be a little mushroom shaped home.

Build this earthbag home. In fact it can be absolutely gorgeous. Our floor options as we saw them was to make either a poured concrete or earth floor.