Cob house bottle wall

Cordwood Construction - How to make bottle logs for your cordwood home. From simple to more complex. Pick the method that suits you.

This is the bottle wall that will go between our bathroom and the greenhouse hallway. Check out the full photo album of the build at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Northeast-Georgia-Earthship/172680859460013

Bottles walls are great in cordwood, cob, and earthship building designs. This guide will show you everything we learned about making and building with bottle bricks so that you can do it too.

These glass bottles are in a cob wall... could we do this in the bathroom walls? Not sure how that would translate with the depth of earthbags, but this would be a great way to add pretty light to our windowless loos!

This beautiful earth bag home contains 450 ft² of space and was built for less than $5000. Recycled or salvaged materials were used wherever it was possible (i.e. the door and flooring). The rounded shape provides great stability for the entire structure, and two rows of concrete bags reinforced with barbed wire provide a solid grounding. Here's a step by step of the build... Starting on a rubble trench foundation. Railroad ballast was used for the rubble... Covering over our sediment fabric…

Cob Bathroom / Composting Toilet

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Take a video tour of one of the first Earthships built, with Michael Reynolds as your guide. Plus, the continuing debate about the bragging rights to "the greenest home" in the nation or on the planet.

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Having built an eco-house myself I thought I had a basic grasp of how an eco-building works and why. However, I have since realised that I had only just begun to understand the principles of eco-bu…