How to make a Glass bottle wall
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2022
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In this episode, Manisha takes you through how to build a glass bottle wall, and how you can use a waste material like empty beer bottles to make an interesting and attractive feature wall.
The process of making a bottle brick is simple. Simply cut the top of the bottle to a specific length which will be half of the thickness of the wall. Remember two bottles stuck together end to end make one brick. So if each bottle is cut to 4.5 inches in height, then together they will make a 9 inch brick.
An industrail way of making glass bricks it to install a glass cutting blade on your work bench with a measure to hold it in place. Then you can cut the bottles into two pieces very quickly.
Simple dunk them into a bucket of water to clean out any major dirt, and stick them together with the help of duct tape. Once the brick is ready, it is used to make a wall, just like a brick. You can use cement mortar or lime mortar or even mud to make these walls.
The glass brick walls make an interesting and playful feature for partition walls, bathroom walls or landscape walls. The play of light both in the day and night is quite pleasing.
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Exactly how we are planning to build one
Boht khuob.
I watched videos on building earthships and seen them build walls with cans that they complete covered also because they would take less mortar. Thank you for sharing the how to about the cutting the bottles.
Very clear instructions. Lovely walls
Amazing . So beautiful
Great! I would like to see how it look like when light pass through this wall.
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing❤
I've seen those glass bottle walls on earthship structures by mike Reynolds. They look amazing and all earthship structures are made mostly from recycled materials like tyres, glass bottles, soda cans. They also have a you tube channel called earthship biotecture. I really liked the concept of earthship where you can harvest rain water, produce your own electricity and you can also grow your own food inside the house and not only that they also have their own waste management systems.
Wonderful. Beautiful presentation. ❤
very informative
You are soooo gifted, sooooo intuitive and sooooo sweet, I learned soooooo much from you. Please stay healthy.
Nice content, thanks Manisha. Could've soaks the string as opposed to pouring it over the thread. Please share a tour of the entire new house!
Was it used with cement based material or mud? Better if you show wall from both the sides. How does it match the width of the wall if bottles are of different sizes?
Thank you for this; I am glad to hae found your channel! Do you have any comments or thoughts on this idea? I have been planning to build a wall of bottles, but rather than building those double-ended bricks, I would like to leave one side open-ended, and in the open hole I would place lengths of bamboo and straw, creating a habitat for pollinating native bees. This is for a wall where both sides are outside.
Another thing. What if the glass bottom broke? What is the fix?
Definitely will give this a try! Did you have to make a form first before pouring the cement?
Thank you for posting. How did you color the mortor green?
NIce video, very helpful. I would like to know how thick the bootle wall should be if it is an extrerior wall, and how thick for an interior wall? THank you
nice
Will it help in insulation if the bottles were filled with mud before taping?