HOW TO BUILD A MUD COB HOUSE? Putting up the roof. Off-the-grid life
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2021
- How to Build a Mud House? This is the fourth episode of our "How to build a Mud House?" series. The first part is preparing the mud bricks followed by laying the foundation and the third is buildling the walls. Links for the past episodes are below.
The roof was another tricky decision for us. While we did want to put on something organic and eco-friendly like palm leaves, or woven grass, we decided to go with metal sheet. The reason is after visiting a few locations that had used palm leaf or woven grass, they all mentioned that the maximum amount of time this lasted was 3-4 years, after which the whole roof had to be redone. The main issue being the roof leaking and always water drippping onto the mud walls, which could soon turn into a bigger problem. Another issue was the creatures that start to live in your roof like bees, wasps, worms and rats.
The only solution that we saw in some places was to use metal sheet first, and then cover this with palm leaves. This has several benefits, firstly it prevents the sun from heating up the metal sheet, so the mud house stays cooler. Secondly, you do not need to use much parm leaf, as the ojective is not water protection, but only sun protection. With using palm leaves for water protection, you really need to put each strip only 10-15cm apart which means lots of palm leaf strips. With only sun protection, you can place them 40cm apart. So we left extra length roof structure, so that we may attach the palm leaf strips in the future. (COVID ate up our budget for the palm leaves)
If you're into building mud houses then check out our other episodes
How to build a Mud Bricks
• HOW TO BUILD A MUD COB...
How to Build the Foundation for a Mud House
• How to BUILD A MUD HOU...
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Love your videos. You explain it better than anyone without making the videos unnecessarily long and boring. So happy that I've come across this chanel. Jai Gopal! 🙏🙂
Thankyouuuu for that LifeExamined108 :) i hope i dont dissapoint in the next videos. I can be quite chatty when it gets into the real details. Like the latest storing bricks video. :p
Really liked your videos and in future I'm definitely gonna build a mud house for myself. 😊☺️
Yesss you should! Just takes some planning and a small gang of fun people. Or you can even go at it alone. :)
Who is the construction team? Would they be able to build in Chiang Mai?
Thank u for sharing. Good effort indeed 👍🤗
Exactly what I was looking for. This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing
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Thank you !
Could you please share more details of the construction help you have hired for building the mud house ....how much did it cost ??
How was the roof framing pinned to the structure or did I miss this?
what did u use to place the roof onto the mud house to secure it? just the concrete? how does the roof connect
That's ok, use both resources .
Thanks. Please explain how to tie the steel support frame to the top of the mud walls.
Hi AS. Good point..we totally left that out in the video as our media guy wasnt on site the day this was done. Actually about half way once the brickwall is build, we placed a horizontal flat piece of metal. From that we welded tmt metal bars vertically upwards. Walll construction then continued. Once of top, we welded these vertical metal to the square beam we that you see in the video that takes the weight of the roof. Hope that helps.
Many thanks.
Hey.I’m making a hybrid house of mud and steel in Koh Samui now. I’m just trying different patch tests for plastering now. I have a good roof and over a foot of a concrete stem wall. Wondering if lime clay and sand would be a good mix or just use sand clay and tapioca paste would be better?
Hi 231rft. From what we have seen, the most inportant thing for the finishing touch will always to test the mixture you use. Our local mud architect had been putting tapioca flour into boiling water, then adding cooking oil and finally putting that mixture into fine mud which had been filtered(no big pieces). Then we would layer them on and test on one part. If no cracks appeared, we kept going the next day. Our next episode comes out next week, in which we explained the plastering process. Also feel free to msg into ourlandthailand@gmail.com. we can have a chat on the phone if ur interested.
@@OurLand thank you for reply 😀 yes I think a lime and earth plaster finished with tapioca should be fine. I started to build in January and began with a steel pole frame and the plan was wo just use corrugated iron for outside walls for short term and try to replace with natural materials later. But now I’m getting carried away using wattle and daub and bottles to make the walls. It looks so much better and the rooms will be a lot cooler and it’s also a lot of fun to do and using creativity during these boring covid times 😂 I just hope I can get a house book and registered address when finished. I can email you some pics and videos of the progress so far if you like 👍🏻
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what's the material you're using for plastering the bricks together? is it mud too?
Hi h.k. its the same material that the mud bricks are made of. Which is mud and rice husk.
@@OurLand Thank you! Looking forward to making my own Mud Cob house :)
Your videos are too short some issues you talk about I didn't even see like palm over the roof and what did you use to insulate ? Why not use natural materials for roofing also?
Stainless steel I am guessing?
Regular steel starts rusting very fast even if you coat it with anti rust coatings.
actually yeah it coat by Galvanized, anyway it was protected by the Galvanized matte sheet in color coat again, with the method of roofing when it was pinned on the beam there has a waterproof seal on the screw as well. but mostly mudhouses in Thailand, the popular material for roofing is bamboo roof search for "การทำหลังคาไม้ไผ่" there have many method FYI
Great content as always...
I need your inputs on one thing... Recently I tried making adobe bricks with red soil (which is locally available at my place) and straw mix... However the bricks completely disintegrated when I immersed them in water...
What did I miss??
The ratio of soil to straw was 9 parts of soil to 2 parts of straw
Hi. Cud u explain why u imersed them.in water? Do u mean after the brick was dry? Also the mix we use here is 1:1 mud:ricehusk.
@@OurLand Thanks for replying...
The immersion test I read from a blog on internet...The test was performed after the bricks were sun-dried for a week...
Also it'll be helpful if you can share info on how to perform the soil test for choosing appropriate soil...
Yes the soil test. Thats an upcoming video.
About the immersion test. Do you have a link to this test? Also how long was it immersed for? Our bricks can take immersion for a while, but since there is no actual chemical change taking place here, the bricks will disentegrate at some point of immersion. Have you tried with a 50/50 mix of straw and mud?
@@OurLand ua-cam.com/video/ZN7F85Q5QAI/v-deo.html
This is one of the blogs where immersion test is performed on compressed earth blocks... I tried replicating this and my test bricks dissolved around 4-5 mins...
Next item on my to-do list is to test build bricks with 1:1 ratio of soil and husk...
And I'm really looking forward to the soil test video...
@@user-iw8fr3rq9u i watched the video. I see the focus here on using cement into the mixture for the blocks. This will surely make the bricks stronger, and thats a choice you can make about if you want to use cement or not. But there are several examples of mud houses without any cement at all. Once the bricks are plasteres, rain wont get to them, so the brick is always going to be dry anyway. Hope that helps.
What is the total area of this mud cottage and total Construction cost? Thanks
Cost is between - 170,000-190,000 thai Bhat. Area is 8mx4m so 32sqm
Pl send us yr inside view of mid house
Coming soon! :D
How to roof a Mud house: Metal