vicious bee
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I like the tire and tire bales. I always wondered if you could use tires banded together horizontally and laid on the ground. Like Geogrid Reinforcing. see this page:
http://www.nitterhouse.com/masonry/products/retaining_walls/geo_grid/installation_instructions.php
Geogrid Reinforcing is the cheapest conventional way to build a concrete wall. Have you seen those really high concrete walls made of rough blocks that are set back about one inch for each block? Geogrid Reinforcing is what makes it possible. The Geogrid is placed under the block and back into the dirt. The picture on the link makes it clear. The dirt holds down the grid and the grids friction and weight of the block hold the blocks. What if you replaced the grid with tires to make the wall. No blocks just tires banded together like a large grid. That would make your walls. Then there is these guys that had an idea for underground houses. They build a big trench with sloping dirt walls. They then built conventional stud frame walls in the trench and covered the whole trench with a conventional roof. I think I heard about them from Mother Earth News or Backwoods Home Magazine. Instead of dirt you could use the tires to support the walls. You wouldn't need such a big roof because the tire wall could be steeper.
Here's a link to an abstract on trench houses. Different from the one mentioned above. I wish I had the paper linked to in the abstract but I don't have an account with them.
http://www.actahort.org/books/76/76_56.htm
How would you make your ceiling and ceiling supports. What about Fabric Formed Concrete?
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T568/A06PIXFabricFormedConcrete.htm
http://yestermorrowschool.blogspot.com/2009/09/fabric-formed-concrete.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1222723821.html
and check this guy out. He's done some heavy thinking about low cost building. Lots of excellent info at The Ultimate Building System site:
http://planetaryrenewal.org/ipr/ubs.html
and one more an excellent ferrocement resourse at ferrocement.com
http://ferrocement.com/Page_1/english.html
http://www.nitterhouse.com/masonry/products/retaining_walls/geo_grid/installation_instructions.php
Geogrid Reinforcing is the cheapest conventional way to build a concrete wall. Have you seen those really high concrete walls made of rough blocks that are set back about one inch for each block? Geogrid Reinforcing is what makes it possible. The Geogrid is placed under the block and back into the dirt. The picture on the link makes it clear. The dirt holds down the grid and the grids friction and weight of the block hold the blocks. What if you replaced the grid with tires to make the wall. No blocks just tires banded together like a large grid. That would make your walls. Then there is these guys that had an idea for underground houses. They build a big trench with sloping dirt walls. They then built conventional stud frame walls in the trench and covered the whole trench with a conventional roof. I think I heard about them from Mother Earth News or Backwoods Home Magazine. Instead of dirt you could use the tires to support the walls. You wouldn't need such a big roof because the tire wall could be steeper.
Here's a link to an abstract on trench houses. Different from the one mentioned above. I wish I had the paper linked to in the abstract but I don't have an account with them.
http://www.actahort.org/books/76/76_56.htm
How would you make your ceiling and ceiling supports. What about Fabric Formed Concrete?
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T568/A06PIXFabricFormedConcrete.htm
http://yestermorrowschool.blogspot.com/2009/09/fabric-formed-concrete.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1222723821.html
and check this guy out. He's done some heavy thinking about low cost building. Lots of excellent info at The Ultimate Building System site:
http://planetaryrenewal.org/ipr/ubs.html
and one more an excellent ferrocement resourse at ferrocement.com
http://ferrocement.com/Page_1/english.html
