I've found that there is an 'all or nothing' current that runs through the natural building community. Without trying to offend anyone about materials choices for homes, my wife and I designed and build a simple, code compliant home. Our county in Kentucky did require building permits, engineer stamps, and inspections. We used many natural building materials, incorporated with many contemporary materials, to create a hybrid home. We have a post and beam structure, with engineered trusses, and metal roof. We also have straw bale infill for the exterior walls. Because we want our house to demonstrate that natural materials can work in concert with contemporary materials, we used cob (where appropriate for thermal mass), light clay straw infill (for easy plaster application and sound absorption), pine lath with earthen plaster (for the wet wall that has to remain hollow), And earthen plaster over drywall where the pocket door between the kitchen and pantry is. We used tile and stone in our bathroom, as well as drywall with paint above the tile. So there are many kinds of techniques used in our building. We had no challenges meeting and even exceeding the building codes. In fact, we overbuilt our structure, with the idea that this house will last over 100 years with its current materials. The point I make is that using these natural materials can bring many benefits to those living in the houses that have them. Circling back to my original point: There is plenty of room to experiment, incorporate, and enjoy using natural materials in any build you want to do.
@@dirtpatcheaven We posted albums on facebook. The first one is August 2014. Here is a link to the first one. It starts with the foundation pour and earth air tube installation. (The steel barn is there too, but it isn't the house.). facebook.com/mary.kniskern/media_set?set=a.10203641058739212&type=3 All of the albums are public, and you can skip around to see what you want to see. We tried to caption them so anyone cold see what we were up to in a given photo.
@@d.a.t.4699 Wet walls are conventionally where plumbing is routed. Due to the potential for condensation within, it is a good idea to leave these spaces hollow.
This man is part of the solution. Not like the elected politicians who drain tax payers for the purpose of doing totally the opposite and assist greedy developers who help them get elected. Glad he fought back the building department in his county. Building departments are just plain mafia organizations and another way of giving way money to people by hiring building inspectors who don't know anything about building structures. Kudos for this man. 🙏❤📚🐼♻️😀
So I saw the title of this video, noted that it wasn't from housealive, where I did a seminar three summers ago, and came to check it out. I saw the opening shot with the steel support ties at the ceiling line and thought, "Interesting, just like Conrad's house," and then as the camera swept down and I heard the voice of the narration, it was suddenly clear that it IS Conrad's house! 🙂 Where in Idaho are you? I'm in Walla Walla, WA, currently building a 105 ft. cob wall, planning a cob barn, also happy to come help you build if you're w/in reach. THANK YOU for the extensive interview with Conrad. He's far too good a teacher and artisan to be as modest as he is when left to his own devices!
Thanks for the video. Been waiting for a current interview with Conrad. Would love to start building a cob community on many acres to give families an opportunity to build a mortgage free home. If we don't change the social and living construct who will?
I agree with the sentiment. But unfortunately with the building code rules and regulation cost, it forces a lot of people into hiding when building their home. A large scale community would definitely be noticed by municipalities.
We have embarked on this journey. We know a long time contractor in our area who understands how this county works. I love the hybrid concept and the freedom to imagine our dreams and make them a reality. The future is here and we are it.
The other two realities are 1) for most their home is their major asset; building wealth. This is only true if there is a stable market willing to buy it later and most importantly, one a mortgage company will provide a loan on (hence codes). The second is to address is making homes that remaining assessible as aging brings limits to ladders and stairs and need for ramps, and walker and wheelchair access housing built in from the beginning of planning. I think cob and alternative are increasingly desirable in a lot of the US, hopefully that will continue!
Most engineers, be they the one you hire or the one that gives the permit, know only a small part of the building code. The part that most builders run past them on a daily basis. It is possible for the home builder to get to know the code well enough to do things differently, but they must be willing to quote the building code at almost every turn so when the building inspector says "you can't do that" The builder can say, well the building code section whatever says right here that I can. A lot of the building code is based on if you start this way you must also do... kinds of things. A lot of engineers will automatically apply the you must also part in places where it is not required. It is up to the builder to coach the engineer on these things.
Thank you for this ideal strategy! Embarking on building with natural material in Dallas, TX. Now I will work to equip myself with the knowledge ahead of the permitting process.
You are really amazing. Well done, matey. Good luck to your ventures. I hope to be able to incorporate cob housing as part of my realisation of a moneyless society. Like you said everything is so simple what mother nature gives but it is humans who make life seemingly difficult for themselves. It is an act, a form of awareness that is inbuilt in all of us to realize our full potential, a god inside and just a matter of time to discover and see how beautiful each and everyone of us is. Nameste.
We live in a temperate rain forest (East TN, USA) and would love to build our own home with cob! I love how breathable the material is for the humidity the area throws at us.... but every couple of years the winters can be difficult! As low as 15 to 20 degrees below zero, 3 feet of snow (mountains), black ice, and cannot get out for sometimes as long as a week. I am worried that modern insulation would harm the ability of the cob in the structure to "breathe," but we need to consider this.
Being in TN, your soil is probably excellent for cob - high clay content. As for winters, if you build w. straw bale (like the building in the video), you'll be getting just as good an insulation as much thinner walls w. plastic membranes and fiberglass. Your walls w. straw bale end up around 2 ft. thick, and most of the material is an excellent natural insulator. If you go with cob, just make the walls thick (2 ft. at the base). Instead of insulating, the material acts as a thermal battery, so it maintains a really consistent temperature on the interior - warmer when it's cold outside, cooler when it's warm outside. Warning, though: the thicker your cob walls, the slower it goes up, and the more material you need. I mean WAY slower and LOTS more clay/sand/straw. Every inch of material you're using sideways is an inch you're losing upwards as you build.
Now this larger natural house is good to see. Those claustrophobic cramped small/tiny houses do nothing for me and my family. So this is a God-send. Thank you so much for showing how to get it done! ^_^ I will say that I do not agree with the religious beliefs of the New Age atheist natural house builders with "being one with the outdoors", my family prefers to be "at one with God in eternity" - to us the outdoors is just a terminal to not spend much time in. We also prefer a nicer bathroom with stonemasonry and no clay furniture.
Question, does utilities such as water, gas, electricity will install on cob houses? Im intrigued but i cant seem to find answers anywhere. Will the companies come and install? Since permits are hard to get? Is it even possible to get permits? Thank you. What State are you in?
At this point, it's impossible to walk away with a new CAR for $30K. I'm not sure you'll be able to make a house that stands for much less. Even building w. natural materials incurs costs. With free dirt and cheap concrete sand, you're still paying for straw bales in most cases. You'll likely have to put some $ in for the foundation (esp. since there are requirements in code for things like a running bond -- almost demands poured concrete core at least). Windows and doors - even secondhand - cost money, and then there's the roof, which is vital to get right when you're protecting a house made of mud & straw. Even if you plumb and install electric yourself as much as code will allow, it costs in materials, and you'll certainly need licensed professionals to do at least some of it. As cheaply as you eke it out, these things will still add up. However, when you consider that the average house-build in the U.S. now costs on average, $485k, and the average purchase price of existing home and property is $310k, it's a bargain. It's 10 to 12 times less money! Note that the sweat equity is immense, though. Like most things in life, there are no easy answers, though there are better and worse ones.
A peaked roof to keep snow moving and a long overhang to keep the melting snow away from the base of the house is essential. It is water at the base of the house that is a problem, not snow load or cold temps.
Your other response is about snow/exterior. If your concern is interior/termperature, here's more info: Straw bale, which is the main material for this structure, is an excellent insulator. It's a different approach from trying to lock out the outside world with plastic membranes and fiberglass. Natural materials let water vapor through, but since the walls are around 2 ft. thick of packed straw encased in plaster, you're getting just as good an insulation (or better). If you use cob, that takes it farther in the same direction: Instead of insulating, you're using the mass of the clay/sand (usually 18" to 2' thick at the base) as a thermal battery. It really is warm in the winter and cool in the summer with minimal additional heating/cooling.
could people in the background please stop making silly noise? this guy has good info to give and he is making a video. Good God, are they doing dishes at a time like this?
I can understand why this looks like a new technology among the north americans.. it is because they have no history in building with these materials. But in Europe this type of houses have been builded back to at least 500 years back. There are even 700 years old buildings that survived today still. North Americans focus their building techniques started with wood mostly.. even the North Americans natives didn't built with these materials in the past. So is all new for them now. But not for europeans and south americans.
Yep. Both Conrad and Ianto Evans, the main proponents of cob building in the U.S., acknowledge and teach in their seminars about the long traditions of building w. Earth all over the world. Ianto's exploration of cobbing started with knowing about the ancient buildings that are still standing where he grew up in Wales. People in North Africa build towns with multi-story apartments made of cob and have been doing so for ages. The version of cob that he and Conrad teach people to make uses more straw in the mix for shear strength. The traditional European cob didn't have as much because, before industrial agriculture, straw was actually relatively expensive.
GOOD GOLLY MOLLY! FOR THAT PRICE YOU COULD BUY A FEW TINY HOMES AND HELP OTHERS LIVE BETTER. NOT VERY AFFORDABLE I WOULD SAY. JUST MY OPINION. BEAUTIFUL HOME THOUGH.
The word that makes this difference is "Code". There are many places where you can be told to leave if you have an unpermitted house. If you refuse, they can take your children away to a foster home and you can be charged with endangering your child(ren). A "tiny home" is not always an option. Welcome to reality for a lot of people. If you listened to the comments in the video, it is a short jump to realize that if you add enough tiny houses to a place that doesn't require a permit, there comes a time when it becomes worthwhile for the county to change that because the tax base supports the manpower to make it so. All it takes is a few non-permit tiny houses to burn down or collapse and for the county to get sued...
I don't mean to get too political, but of course that is where things tend to land, because it's the reality we live in: The trend for "tiny houses" made from trailers, buses, etc. is a means by which the .01% are trying to get the mass of Americans positive about the horrendous downward mobility that they've been forced to endure. It doesn't take much to see how things have changed: Look up all the marketing for the 1940's-70's American dream, which was a house w. a fence, a yard, a picket fence. That's been reduced now to a trailer with pop-out beds and a kitchenette. The rich have figured it out: If we've got your trailers and our TVs and phones, we won't revolt over the fact that they own everything else and make all the decisions. The natural building movement is partially about living better than that and in a manner that resists the credit economy and the use of industrial rubbish to make us think our lives are 'improved.' If we really want to get it right, we'd change the society so there was a much more even distribution of the wealth AND we'd take advantage of these more sustainable/regenerative ways of living.
@@dirtpatcheaven The guy in this video is giving people legal advice, he telling people to get permits, obey the code, pay the tax, submit and obey. None of that is true at all, without the permit they can not come do the inspection, they are trespassing if he don't get the permit. Building codes are for government buildings, they can't make a public building without uniform regulations and building codes, they can't have the library or the court house fall on people. Whose building is it? If he is building this for someone else he should be insured, he should be licensed, he should use the code. This guy has not read any law and is telling people what it says. If he is building this for himself all that is advisory, it's not about who is going to let him it's about who is going to stop him. Whoever claims to own him as property is going to show up, threats of violence, intimidation, extortion, coercion, those are crimes. Watch a couple minutes of this movie ua-cam.com/video/uliLfykURYo/v-deo.html it's about a guy in Canada who changed his whole life because of one word, when he started looking into that one word everything he was told by people like this cob house guy was exposed as a lie. He started asking the right questions and he who questions well will learn well. Same kind of bad legal advise the guy in your video is giving people. If everyone believes what they are told an never pick up a book to see what the truth actually is, next thing we know we need a real estate license to live in a house. Anyone can just make up anything as pass it off as fake law "you have to". There is only one law that says you have to do something and that's the law that says you have to report a crime, it's called "misprison of felony" www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4 Anyone telling you what to do is obliged to pay you for doing it. "A workman is worthy of his hire" -Luke 10:7
@@jimflask1164 That's good information. It's hard to wrap your head around the phrase "It's a free country" when you have to get a permit, or in other words, permission from the government, to build on your own property, and PAY them for it! It's ridiculous. If I wanted to live in a shoe I should be able to (I've seen a cob house shaped like a shoe😂). I can only imagine what you think and know about taxing one's labor. Although it's completely illegal and enforced with threats and incarceration, they still get you.. You can't drive without a license (govt permission) you can't even catch a fish in most places without permission. It's bizarre.. people are so complacent with this ever encroaching govt trampling all over our liberties and few seem to care. Sorry for the txt wall I rarely come across anyone noticing/ talking about how messed up this is AND offering some helpful advice. thx for the info.
I've found that there is an 'all or nothing' current that runs through the natural building community. Without trying to offend anyone about materials choices for homes, my wife and I designed and build a simple, code compliant home. Our county in Kentucky did require building permits, engineer stamps, and inspections. We used many natural building materials, incorporated with many contemporary materials, to create a hybrid home. We have a post and beam structure, with engineered trusses, and metal roof. We also have straw bale infill for the exterior walls. Because we want our house to demonstrate that natural materials can work in concert with contemporary materials, we used cob (where appropriate for thermal mass), light clay straw infill (for easy plaster application and sound absorption), pine lath with earthen plaster (for the wet wall that has to remain hollow), And earthen plaster over drywall where the pocket door between the kitchen and pantry is. We used tile and stone in our bathroom, as well as drywall with paint above the tile. So there are many kinds of techniques used in our building.
We had no challenges meeting and even exceeding the building codes. In fact, we overbuilt our structure, with the idea that this house will last over 100 years with its current materials.
The point I make is that using these natural materials can bring many benefits to those living in the houses that have them.
Circling back to my original point: There is plenty of room to experiment, incorporate, and enjoy using natural materials in any build you want to do.
It sounds like you did an amazing job! I would love to see photos of it!
@@dirtpatcheaven We posted albums on facebook. The first one is August 2014. Here is a link to the first one. It starts with the foundation pour and earth air tube installation. (The steel barn is there too, but it isn't the house.). facebook.com/mary.kniskern/media_set?set=a.10203641058739212&type=3 All of the albums are public, and you can skip around to see what you want to see. We tried to caption them so anyone cold see what we were up to in a given photo.
what is the wet wall thats remains hollow for?
@@d.a.t.4699 Wet walls are conventionally where plumbing is routed. Due to the potential for condensation within, it is a good idea to leave these spaces hollow.
@@jameskniskern2261 hey thanks for the reply james...have a great day man
This man is part of the solution. Not like the elected politicians who drain tax payers for the purpose of doing totally the opposite and assist greedy developers who help them get elected. Glad he fought back the building department in his county. Building departments are just plain mafia organizations and another way of giving way money to people by hiring building inspectors who don't know anything about building structures. Kudos for this man. 🙏❤📚🐼♻️😀
You seriously have no idea how much you have inspired me...
That is gorgeous.
Now that's a high ceiling.
Surprised there not more echo.
❤ love your home!!
So I saw the title of this video, noted that it wasn't from housealive, where I did a seminar three summers ago, and came to check it out. I saw the opening shot with the steel support ties at the ceiling line and thought, "Interesting, just like Conrad's house," and then as the camera swept down and I heard the voice of the narration, it was suddenly clear that it IS Conrad's house! 🙂 Where in Idaho are you? I'm in Walla Walla, WA, currently building a 105 ft. cob wall, planning a cob barn, also happy to come help you build if you're w/in reach. THANK YOU for the extensive interview with Conrad. He's far too good a teacher and artisan to be as modest as he is when left to his own devices!
3:29 i look forward to build this in Kenya
Thanks for the video. Been waiting for a current interview with Conrad. Would love to start building a cob community on many acres to give families an opportunity to build a mortgage free home. If we don't change the social and living construct who will?
Well done to think and act like this. What a noble act. Good luck and nameste
I agree with the sentiment. But unfortunately with the building code rules and regulation cost, it forces a lot of people into hiding when building their home. A large scale community would definitely be noticed by municipalities.
We have embarked on this journey. We know a long time contractor in our area who understands how this county works. I love the hybrid concept and the freedom to imagine our dreams and make them a reality. The future is here and we are it.
The other two realities are 1) for most their home is their major asset; building wealth. This is only true if there is a stable market willing to buy it later and most importantly, one a mortgage company will provide a loan on (hence codes). The second is to address is making homes that remaining assessible as aging brings limits to ladders and stairs and need for ramps, and walker and wheelchair access housing built in from the beginning of planning. I think cob and alternative are increasingly desirable in a lot of the US, hopefully that will continue!
Most engineers, be they the one you hire or the one that gives the permit, know only a small part of the building code. The part that most builders run past them on a daily basis. It is possible for the home builder to get to know the code well enough to do things differently, but they must be willing to quote the building code at almost every turn so when the building inspector says "you can't do that" The builder can say, well the building code section whatever says right here that I can. A lot of the building code is based on if you start this way you must also do... kinds of things. A lot of engineers will automatically apply the you must also part in places where it is not required. It is up to the builder to coach the engineer on these things.
Thank you for this ideal strategy! Embarking on building with natural material in Dallas, TX. Now I will work to equip myself with the knowledge ahead of the permitting process.
@@kathrynhurn6307 I think that's a good idea.
Amazing Sir💫🌾👑⚡
You are really amazing. Well done, matey. Good luck to your ventures. I hope to be able to incorporate cob housing as part of my realisation of a moneyless society. Like you said everything is so simple what mother nature gives but it is humans who make life seemingly difficult for themselves. It is an act, a form of awareness that is inbuilt in all of us to realize our full potential, a god inside and just a matter of time to discover and see how beautiful each and everyone of us is. Nameste.
AWESOME VIDEO MY FRIEND ALWAYS A GREAT BIG THUMBS UP TO ALL OF MY WONDERFUL SUBSCRIBERS
The outside of my parents house in west Texas was built w adobe on the outside
We live in a temperate rain forest (East TN, USA) and would love to build our own home with cob! I love how breathable the material is for the humidity the area throws at us.... but every couple of years the winters can be difficult! As low as 15 to 20 degrees below zero, 3 feet of snow (mountains), black ice, and cannot get out for sometimes as long as a week. I am worried that modern insulation would harm the ability of the cob in the structure to "breathe," but we need to consider this.
The thermal rocket mass stoves should keep your house plenty warm with little wood needed.
Being in TN, your soil is probably excellent for cob - high clay content.
As for winters, if you build w. straw bale (like the building in the video), you'll be getting just as good an insulation as much thinner walls w. plastic membranes and fiberglass. Your walls w. straw bale end up around 2 ft. thick, and most of the material is an excellent natural insulator.
If you go with cob, just make the walls thick (2 ft. at the base). Instead of insulating, the material acts as a thermal battery, so it maintains a really consistent temperature on the interior - warmer when it's cold outside, cooler when it's warm outside.
Warning, though: the thicker your cob walls, the slower it goes up, and the more material you need. I mean WAY slower and LOTS more clay/sand/straw. Every inch of material you're using sideways is an inch you're losing upwards as you build.
How many sq ft is this cob home. Very beautiful.
Would love to live in a hose like this!!!👏🏻
i love hoses.
House
Man I'd love to have a good cobb builder to come help me on my farm in Alabama for a few months lm abort to build a cobb mansion 😊
The Moroccan waterproofing technique is "Tadelakt", not "Cadillac" as the CC currently says.
Now this larger natural house is good to see. Those claustrophobic cramped small/tiny houses do nothing for me and my family. So this is a God-send. Thank you so much for showing how to get it done! ^_^ I will say that I do not agree with the religious beliefs of the New Age atheist natural house builders with "being one with the outdoors", my family prefers to be "at one with God in eternity" - to us the outdoors is just a terminal to not spend much time in. We also prefer a nicer bathroom with stonemasonry and no clay furniture.
Do you have approved plans?
Very interesting. What does the outside of the house look like?
There is a nice covered wooden deck out front, big enough for 10 people to sit around. There is also a shower on the side of the house.
Question, does utilities such as water, gas, electricity will install on cob houses? Im intrigued but i cant seem to find answers anywhere. Will the companies come and install? Since permits are hard to get? Is it even possible to get permits? Thank you. What State are you in?
Yea what's up ?
Did he say it cost only $20 or 30k including the permits and inspections?
Yes
That's still too rich for my blood. Isn't there a cheaper way?
At this point, it's impossible to walk away with a new CAR for $30K. I'm not sure you'll be able to make a house that stands for much less.
Even building w. natural materials incurs costs.
With free dirt and cheap concrete sand, you're still paying for straw bales in most cases.
You'll likely have to put some $ in for the foundation (esp. since there are requirements in code for things like a running bond -- almost demands poured concrete core at least).
Windows and doors - even secondhand - cost money,
and then there's the roof, which is vital to get right when you're protecting a house made of mud & straw.
Even if you plumb and install electric yourself as much as code will allow, it costs in materials, and you'll certainly need licensed professionals to do at least some of it.
As cheaply as you eke it out, these things will still add up.
However, when you consider that the average house-build in the U.S. now costs on average, $485k, and the average purchase price of existing home and property is $310k, it's a bargain. It's 10 to 12 times less money! Note that the sweat equity is immense, though. Like most things in life, there are no easy answers, though there are better and worse ones.
Earthbag homes begin around $6000.
What's the little window below the kitchen sink? Do you have a dog?
It's a cat window, I've been to this house :)
how long will the 2x4 wood studs last in the walls?
Pretty much indefinitely. They're not structural, mold doesn't really grow in cob, and there's nothing else that can really get to them.
@@pontifexinferno thanks, that helps me a lot. have a great night/day
@@d.a.t.4699 No problem! Same to you.
great sound - nothing like trying to listing to this guy while some jerk is in the background making all sorts of noise so you can't hear anything
Who is this man please? He is very interesting.
It's Conrad Rogue from House Alive. I've been to this house and it's amazing!
ive got conflicting info on building a house like this in a state with a long winter like washington??
A peaked roof to keep snow moving and a long overhang to keep the melting snow away from the base of the house is essential. It is water at the base of the house that is a problem, not snow load or cold temps.
Your other response is about snow/exterior. If your concern is interior/termperature, here's more info: Straw bale, which is the main material for this structure, is an excellent insulator. It's a different approach from trying to lock out the outside world with plastic membranes and fiberglass. Natural materials let water vapor through, but since the walls are around 2 ft. thick of packed straw encased in plaster, you're getting just as good an insulation (or better). If you use cob, that takes it farther in the same direction: Instead of insulating, you're using the mass of the clay/sand (usually 18" to 2' thick at the base) as a thermal battery. It really is warm in the winter and cool in the summer with minimal additional heating/cooling.
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How is it water proofed on the interior and exterior.
RvBadlands2015 most people coat cob with linseed oil as a natural water repellent
Usually a lime plaster. I believe Conrad used gypsum for his indoor wall plaster but, don’t quote me on that... I took his workshop in 2010🤣🤣🤣
Gett u some beez wax candles up in that bishh
could people in the background please stop making silly noise? this guy has good info to give and he is making a video. Good God, are they doing dishes at a time like this?
I know they are slamming the doors, but is she throwing the plates?
I can understand why this looks like a new technology among the north americans.. it is because they have no history in building with these materials. But in Europe this type of houses have been builded back to at least 500 years back. There are even 700 years old buildings that survived today still. North Americans focus their building techniques started with wood mostly.. even the North Americans natives didn't built with these materials in the past. So is all new for them now. But not for europeans and south americans.
Yep. Both Conrad and Ianto Evans, the main proponents of cob building in the U.S., acknowledge and teach in their seminars about the long traditions of building w. Earth all over the world. Ianto's exploration of cobbing started with knowing about the ancient buildings that are still standing where he grew up in Wales. People in North Africa build towns with multi-story apartments made of cob and have been doing so for ages.
The version of cob that he and Conrad teach people to make uses more straw in the mix for shear strength. The traditional European cob didn't have as much because, before industrial agriculture, straw was actually relatively expensive.
GOOD GOLLY MOLLY! FOR THAT PRICE YOU COULD BUY A FEW TINY HOMES AND HELP OTHERS LIVE BETTER. NOT VERY AFFORDABLE I WOULD SAY. JUST MY OPINION. BEAUTIFUL HOME THOUGH.
The word that makes this difference is "Code". There are many places where you can be told to leave if you have an unpermitted house. If you refuse, they can take your children away to a foster home and you can be charged with endangering your child(ren). A "tiny home" is not always an option. Welcome to reality for a lot of people. If you listened to the comments in the video, it is a short jump to realize that if you add enough tiny houses to a place that doesn't require a permit, there comes a time when it becomes worthwhile for the county to change that because the tax base supports the manpower to make it so. All it takes is a few non-permit tiny houses to burn down or collapse and for the county to get sued...
All the tiny houses I've seen on craigslist cost over 30,000 dollars
I don't mean to get too political, but of course that is where things tend to land, because it's the reality we live in: The trend for "tiny houses" made from trailers, buses, etc. is a means by which the .01% are trying to get the mass of Americans positive about the horrendous downward mobility that they've been forced to endure.
It doesn't take much to see how things have changed: Look up all the marketing for the 1940's-70's American dream, which was a house w. a fence, a yard, a picket fence. That's been reduced now to a trailer with pop-out beds and a kitchenette. The rich have figured it out: If we've got your trailers and our TVs and phones, we won't revolt over the fact that they own everything else and make all the decisions.
The natural building movement is partially about living better than that and in a manner that resists the credit economy and the use of industrial rubbish to make us think our lives are 'improved.'
If we really want to get it right, we'd change the society so there was a much more even distribution of the wealth AND we'd take advantage of these more sustainable/regenerative ways of living.
Stop giving legal advise unless you are an attorney.
Not sure what you mean.
@@dirtpatcheaven The guy in this video is giving people legal advice, he telling people to get permits, obey the code, pay the tax, submit and obey. None of that is true at all, without the permit they can not come do the inspection, they are trespassing if he don't get the permit. Building codes are for government buildings, they can't make a public building without uniform regulations and building codes, they can't have the library or the court house fall on people. Whose building is it? If he is building this for someone else he should be insured, he should be licensed, he should use the code. This guy has not read any law and is telling people what it says.
If he is building this for himself all that is advisory, it's not about who is going to let him it's about who is going to stop him. Whoever claims to own him as property is going to show up, threats of violence, intimidation, extortion, coercion, those are crimes. Watch a couple minutes of this movie ua-cam.com/video/uliLfykURYo/v-deo.html it's about a guy in Canada who changed his whole life because of one word, when he started looking into that one word everything he was told by people like this cob house guy was exposed as a lie. He started asking the right questions and he who questions well will learn well.
Same kind of bad legal advise the guy in your video is giving people. If everyone believes what they are told an never pick up a book to see what the truth actually is, next thing we know we need a real estate license to live in a house. Anyone can just make up anything as pass it off as fake law "you have to". There is only one law that says you have to do something and that's the law that says you have to report a crime, it's called "misprison of felony" www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4
Anyone telling you what to do is obliged to pay you for doing it. "A workman is worthy of his hire" -Luke 10:7
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@@crosisofborg5524 No one has gone to prison for exercising their rights.
@@jimflask1164 That's good information. It's hard to wrap your head around the phrase "It's a free country" when you have to get a permit, or in other words, permission from the government, to build on your own property, and PAY them for it! It's ridiculous. If I wanted to live in a shoe I should be able to (I've seen a cob house shaped like a shoe😂). I can only imagine what you think and know about taxing one's labor.
Although it's completely illegal and enforced with threats and incarceration, they still get you..
You can't drive without a license (govt permission)
you can't even catch a fish in most places without permission. It's bizarre.. people are so complacent with this ever encroaching govt trampling all over our liberties and few seem to care.
Sorry for the txt wall I rarely come across anyone noticing/ talking about how messed up this is AND offering some helpful advice.
thx for the info.