I love how much research you have done into making inexpensive building techniques. Too much useful materials are being tossed into landfills every day.
Aircrete was way too complicated. I used about $500 worth of materials but never got it to be consistent enough to build with. I even paid a dome building aircrete groups $1000 to try to learn, but the information was never clear. When I bought your e course, we started getting consistent abundacrete mixes and saved thousands on our building costs.
@@hopechannelcat5462 Thanks for watching! Great to hear from you again! We are trying to get to 1 video a week but it is very hard to do when working full time and juggling projects. We really appreciate your continued support!
@@robertcs68 Sorry we weren't filming videos all along. It's tough to film and focus on the projects at hand. But the camera was running a lot so we are going to go back and recap those builds too! Thanks for watching!
We teach all of our recipes as part of our online class at abundancebuild.com! And we actually do include our super easy way to add graphene you can make yourself!
@@AbundanceBuild Not for normal use in walls. I'm thinking about spans and 2-way slabs or even joists given enough depth. One of the videos shows Steve standing on slab spanned between two supports. I'm thinking of that turned on edge with a much greater span.
Love this. Have followed you since the beginning as well as Aircrete Harry, Honey do, Dome Gaia etc! Just like you I feel more confident in styrocrete than aircrete - for me. Land has been cleared and will be starting the process soon. Thank you for all you've done! Now if I could find a styrofoam supplier like you that would be amazing. Keep on keeping on!
@AbundanceBuild will experiment with a greenhouse fan since I have that. I have a bunch of Styrofoam that I've been saving so will see how the fan does. I think it should do fairly well but we'll see!
@@oldporkchops It would but in our experience we recommend to cap at 12 feet. It just feels uncomfortable and is challenging working on scaffolding at that height
@AbundanceBuild Got it. To overcome that working at heights issue, is it possible to first make AbundaCrete blocks that can be transported and laid like CMU or bricks?
@AbundanceBuild The 20 ft height is because the building is a gym and would need to accommodate various ball sports, with the high probability of balls being thrown in the air.
@oldporkchops That is possible but you will still have to stucco up there which was the real challenge that high up. If you could invest in good scaffolding this may overall be fine but cuts into the cost savings
I love how much research you have done into making inexpensive building techniques. Too much useful materials are being tossed into landfills every day.
@@mpjohnson2 Exactly! Now we made an easy way for anyone to prevent it!
Just purchased the course! Can't wait to start learning and implementing:)
@@itsMelejane Thank you! Enjoy all the cost and time saving you get with Abundacrete!
Aircrete was way too complicated. I used about $500 worth of materials but never got it to be consistent enough to build with. I even paid a dome building aircrete groups $1000 to try to learn, but the information was never clear. When I bought your e course, we started getting consistent abundacrete mixes and saved thousands on our building costs.
@@BraxtonMcDonald92 Right on! Yes, aircrete is not as DIY friendly as it sounds on UA-cam.
What a great real world application of the scientific method. Your persistence is paying off.
@@philipbrown1433 Thank you Philip! We are clearly very dedicated to the process after all these years 😂
Great information and thank you for sharing!
@@geoffkeller5337 Thanks for watching!
glad to see videos again. been following you since 1st video. thanks
@@hopechannelcat5462 Thanks for watching! Great to hear from you again! We are trying to get to 1 video a week but it is very hard to do when working full time and juggling projects. We really appreciate your continued support!
Interesting, been wondering what you have been up to and if there have been any recent discoveries.
@@robertcs68 Sorry we weren't filming videos all along. It's tough to film and focus on the projects at hand. But the camera was running a lot so we are going to go back and recap those builds too! Thanks for watching!
Nice video good info
@@ThePOTUSofMatthewEmbryBradshaw Thanks for watching!
@ it’s always nice when somebody is doing something for several years figures out the crappy ways to not waste other people’s times
Yes that is the part of the value. We learned every way not to do it as well lol
Have you experimented with adding gypsum to the mix?
@@feonix138 No but that seems would be a good idea if you have some! Portland cement contains some already
What's your current sand/Portland ratio? Have you tried adding exfoliated graphene?
We teach all of our recipes as part of our online class at abundancebuild.com! And we actually do include our super easy way to add graphene you can make yourself!
So with the decrease in Portland , are you still running the Styrofoam? I didn't hear in the video.
@@collenelollar2425 Yes that is the main ingredient! But no longer use aircrete bubble foam
Thinking out loud what helix micro rebar in the mix would do.
Would probably be great, but unnecessarily expensive
@@AbundanceBuild Not for normal use in walls. I'm thinking about spans and 2-way slabs or even joists given enough depth. One of the videos shows Steve standing on slab spanned between two supports. I'm thinking of that turned on edge with a much greater span.
@feonix138 Go for it! The cost is offset by all the savings with the free recycled materials
Love this. Have followed you since the beginning as well as Aircrete Harry, Honey do, Dome Gaia etc! Just like you I feel more confident in styrocrete than aircrete - for me. Land has been cleared and will be starting the process soon. Thank you for all you've done! Now if I could find a styrofoam supplier like you that would be amazing. Keep on keeping on!
@@TYGod2011 Awesome! Let us know how your project goes! Shredding with a lawnmower is pretty easy too 😁
@AbundanceBuild will experiment with a greenhouse fan since I have that. I have a bunch of Styrofoam that I've been saving so will see how the fan does. I think it should do fairly well but we'll see!
@TYGod2011 That should work!
Would this work for a 20 ft tall building?
@@oldporkchops It would but in our experience we recommend to cap at 12 feet. It just feels uncomfortable and is challenging working on scaffolding at that height
@AbundanceBuild Got it. To overcome that working at heights issue, is it possible to first make AbundaCrete blocks that can be transported and laid like CMU or bricks?
@AbundanceBuild The 20 ft height is because the building is a gym and would need to accommodate various ball sports, with the high probability of balls being thrown in the air.
@oldporkchops That is possible but you will still have to stucco up there which was the real challenge that high up. If you could invest in good scaffolding this may overall be fine but cuts into the cost savings
@@AbundanceBuild Got it. Thanks for responding.