What are the exact proportions of your bricks? Are there any strengthening materials added to the brick mix? What is the crushing strength of these bricks?

Your mud blocks look like chocolate. I want to eat it.

Great information. Thank you very much!

I have studied this for a while and my first thought was poor compression, possibly an inferior compression machine. This is not a new technology, there are structures in the world that been around for hundreds of years that show less degradation than your 10% portland blocks. I also noticed that none of your blocks contained any form of binder.

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Hike from here all the way to greer. Awesome!

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You mean cement, right?

How much it cost to buy all machinery?

Wonderful! God bless you and your family.

Good Job

You can you lime instead of portland cement.

If you followed the guidelines you would know that pure compressed earth blocks need 28 days to set. Convenient that you failed to mention that, nor the PSI that you compressed the earth block.

why do other videos recommend 70-75% sand and 10% clay. I am trying to figure out what the difference is. Thanks

You’re supposed to freeze 3 days, de thaw 1 day then refreeze 3 more days, THEN seal the Mylar bag with oxygen absorbers.

It's not ironic that your mother knows how to hang drywall. It's unusual, perhaps even surprising, but it's not ironic. I blame Alanis Morissette for this.

Nie clip, much thanks. Love the rammed earth/earth block plan, but wonder why use an earth block - better than regular block or brick?

Can one use Lime in place of Portland? And, would the % remain the same? Thanks

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Great house sir. What a good build. I was wondering, rough estimate about what did the exterior house build cost?

I'm guessing it could be stabilized with other tings like oil, but I'm guessing that would have it's own problems.

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Beautiful home you guys did a great job God bless🙏

Heavenly father lol. Hail Satan!

Why didn't CEBs work in your climate? I've seen examples of CBEs as bathroom walls that get wet without any breakdown and don't understand why your exterior walls would be eventually breaking down.

8:07 I'VE GOT A JAR OF DIRT!

Here is my contribution to earth the Gold Brick 5000- 1200 block per hour 2 - 1200 sqft home per day at $60 of fuel. 1978-1985 geoinfo.nmt.edu/publications/monographs/bulletins/downloads/159/B159.pdf

Nice presentation!

have you tried just quicklime instead of portland?

10 scoops dirt to 1 scoop portland is a 9.09% mixture. 9 parts to 1 is a 10% mixture

how fine should the screening mesh be? 3/8 4/8 or 5/8 inch or 10mm 13mm or 16mm?

expert rammed earth guy told me to use 15% clay and 10% cement. This is for rammed earth in big forms. he says minimum 30cm but I think here in the tropics where temperature does not vary as much as in a desert a 16 to 20cm thick wall is enough.

Use chines or korian system to make mud.thats more sticking results for long lasting brick shaping

very smart and beautiful plus the kids will remember this forever

That's a good test but my guess is the cement will become brittle over time and the blocks will crumble. Earth bricks have been used worldwide for centuries and none of the oldest buildings have cement in the bricks. This test is relevant for flood prone areas, in which case you probably shouldn't build with dirt. Stabilized bricks are good for the first few courses in case the floor floods. I suspect cement laced earthen blocks don't perform their water wicking duties as well as clay blocks either because once cement gets wet it doesn't dry out. That is a collapse waiting to happen. Clay breathes, cement doesn't. Just a thought.

How can I buy blocks and make sure they will pass the 10% test ?🤨✅

If your income from your job is stable, consider taking a mortgage on your house for the tax write-off. Over the course of the next 15 years, the tax savings from the home mortgage could save you enough to put two of your kids through college. It would also give you some capitol to invest in other assets to make you money. Leverage and debt can be beneficial if you don't go too far. Find some good books on the subject and think about it. You don't have to take all the cash out. Get a mortgage for what you can afford and reinvest the money.

Nice video. I wish you would of ran them over with your car or something to show how durable it was after water. How much was your machine? I see a company selling them for around 70k. That's a little high for compressing dirt and portland, but one of these would be great to have, no doubt.

Fabulous home. Loved your family

Are these stabilized with cement or not? What did you use to compress these blocks?

Wow ,this IS very informative, thank You so much for ur video

Compressed Earth IS NOT ADOBE, it’s “Pise”

I love this video! Have you every thought of paving your driveway or back patio with earth blocks? It’s been a while since you last posted videos of your property. Would be great to see how the property (inside and out) has evolved going into 2024!

That was a heck of a lot of work. But look what came of it, amazing people getting together to help one another. You wanted something bad enough and you went for it n got er done 👍🏼 You have some awesome friends and a beautiful family. You my friend are blessed 🙏🏻

Soil is primarily mixture of sand, silt and clay - not sand and clay. Also included are water, air, organic matter and biota.

When adding ash and limestone content will definitely make it strong if you can't get Portland. But why not use AI chatbot and ask for Portland cement recipe. You will see mostly limestone is used at 40-60% the rest being ash and other clay and components. But I did see a native dude use ash and clay and he had something worth while ;-)

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I need or someone needs to try Sorel cement Earth Blocks (magnesium / Zinc) for the beneficial property of moving water out of the wall and bonding better to wood. Also better health benefits.

Wow awesome

For creating earth blocks, a 10% Portland cement mix would indeed not be a 10 to 1 ratio. 10% cement mix means that out of every 100 parts of the mix, 10 parts should be cement. A 10 to 1 ratio would mean 10 parts of another material to 1 part cement. This would actually be a 9.09% cement mix (because 1 part cement out of 11 total parts is 1/11, which equals approximately 9.09%). - To achieve a 10% cement mix, you would need a 9 to 1 ratio of other materials to cement (because 1 part cement out of 10 total parts is 1/10, which equals 10%). So, if you're aiming for a 10% Portland cement mix in your earth blocks, you should use a 9 to 1 ratio of dirt to cement.