Building With Bags- How We Built Our Experimental Earthbag/Papercrete Home.DVD FORMAT- by Kelly Hart.By using misprinted polypropelene rice bags, and filling them with earth and pumice the Harts created a unique twin dome home, complete with solar/PV and indoor garden -ala Earthship design. The DVD shows building methods using long and short bags, tips and tricks, materials for windows and air vents, failures and problems encountered, plastering with lime and papercrete, plus mixing papercrete in both a drum and tow mixer. Plus he covers electrical installation, plumbing, 90+ minutes of complete earth bag building information. and a natural rock wall shower they built. Interviews with Shirley Tassencourt who built her earthbag dome after training with Superadobe teacher Nader Khalili, a single 40+woman building on her own, and a young couple building room-by- room with bags. A poured in place adobe (earthen) floor is shown being built, as well as the Harts tamped soil/scoria (no) foundation construction, and an earth bermed north wall. Kelly offers an honest evaluation of the work, problems and joys involved in constructing an earthbag structure, and he details costs for all materials. 90 minutes VIDEO WAS CONVERTED TO DVD FORMAT- same info, same price Please consider other well made DVDs on natural building. 1. DVD- Straw Bale- Framed Wall Infill-View #3031D...$36.00 2. DVD-Natural Building and a New Sense of the Earth -Offers an endless view of cob, straw and wood as sculpture, houses, artwork,and how to build it. View DVD #10909...$25.50 |