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What if a lightweight dome home could cost around $4,200 for the basic shell, handle intense sun exposure, resist weathering, and require far less exterior maintenance than a conventional house?
Shipping containers aren't just for moving stuff around, and architects love to use them for all kinds of interesting ideas. With their compact dimensions and ease of transport, the metal boxes are tailor made for tiny homes
...on his 7-acre Malibu property with the help of a father-son duo
...Historic Building Needed Major Renovations
The LME's front-month copper spread surged to a $370 per ton premium on Friday, the widest one-month spread since the 2021 supply squeeze.
The truth isn't that Aircrete is dangerous. It's that the system wasn't built for it. From outdated local building codes that only understand wood and drywall, to a trillion-dollar construction industry that doesn't want you pouring your own cheap wa
From home construction and renovations to furniture and shipping pallets, lumber is one of the world's most widely used building materials.
In Episode 11 of GeoJourney, Amma One starts to feel like a home. Interior skins, window sills, exterior doors, and the circular staircase are all coming together, transforming the dome from a structural shell into a finished living space.
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Ernest Hancock
Aircrete Harry comes on the show to discuss alternative building techniques, village project, Esperanza Azul Cooperative, aircrete, lavacrete, off-grid living, etc...
I travelled to China to explore the world of prefab and modular homes. From tiny houses to container homes, I take you inside the factories, break down the real costs, and find out whether these affordable homes are too good to be true.
This project required 575 cubic meters of concrete. The new space is large enough to run two different production lines with 12 trucks inside at the same time.
18 states have introduced legislation targeting your tools - not just 3D printers, but CNC machines, laser cutters, lathes, and anything that takes a digital file and makes a physical object. New York already signed it. California is one vote away. A
America's lumber supply is one trade dispute or one bad storm away from sending home construction costs surging by thousands of dollars. A startup in North Carolina thinks grass is the fix.
My DIY garage floor looked amazing, but hid a disgusting secret, so I'm tearing it all out and redoing it the right way! Go to http://DrinkLMNT.com/haxman for a free sample pack with any purchase! We're installing an epoxy and polyaspartic floor in m
Autonomous Floor Leveling – modern technology makes it possible to achieve exceptional accuracy and quality in floor base preparation. Using an autonomous leveling system, pre-spread floor screed is precisely leveled to a predetermined height, ensu
Using polystyrene foam boards and stucco.
Leatherman has become synonymous with the style of plier multitool it first brought to market in 1983. But not every single Leatherman plier tool has taken on the ubiquitous X-like form with plier teeth emerging simultaneously from split swiveling ha
In this video I am having some fun testing the new Makera Z1 with some creative projects.
There is a method of turning ordinary sand into load-bearing artificial stone using two ingredients you can find at any grocery store or hardware store for under two dollars. No cement mixer. No kiln. No industrial equipment. Just sand, wood ash, and
For about $2, you can buy a bottle of sodium silicate -- also called water glass -- that permanently seals concrete from the inside out. No recoating. No peeling. No $45 jug of acrylic sealer that fails in 3 years.
Shipping containers can be turned into everything from tiny houses to art galleries, but they all share one issue: poor thermal performance. The Petti Restaurant mitigates this by covering the containers in mud, creating a striking building that stay
Today we're going to share everything we know about hyperadobe earthbag building - these UV treated raschel mesh tubes present exciting new opportunities, safer build sites, and huge cost savings for those of us building with soil.
After 5 years of traveling full-time in a tiny home, this family of 6 realized they couldn't go back to a "normal" life - so they bought 11 acres of raw desert in Cochise County, Arizona and started building their own off-grid village from the
Everyone will be installing this "Forever Siding" now because it's the most durable, maintenance-free exterior siding I've found for a DIY shed. In this video, we're installing a nail-on faux stone veneer that looks like real masonry but instal
What if one of the cheapest products in the hardware store could turn rust itself into a protective barrier instead of just covering it up? In this video, we dive into the chemistry of phosphoric acid and the long history behind phosphate conversion
This isn't normal cement - it flexes like rubber and NEVER cracks! Polyurea grout reacts with air instantly, seals wall cracks permanently and even works underwater in extreme conditions!
So in just goofing around on Google Maps, looking at islands in the Hormuz Straight, trying to figure out the most likely target beaches the US Marines might use to seize the area, I spotted an odd rainbow of circles on a beach. Zooming in, it was ob
Built popular in the 1970s, these homes utilize "Geothermal Coupling." Because the earth is a near-perfect insulator, the house requires no AC in 100°F heat. They are "banned" or "gatekept" by Building Egress and Window-to-Wall Ratio codes. These co
Want to know how compressed earth blocks / bricks are made? Ryan takes us through how they are made, what machines he has to make them, and how amazing they are for building structures.
Adobe in Action describes its adobe brickmaking process. Adobe in Action is a New Mexico-based 501c3 non-profit organization. We support owner builders with the planning and construction of their adobe homes. We promote adobe home building and owners
