this channel is always such a breath of fresh air, between the flood of lazy compilations of product presentation clips. the effort is much apprecieated!
Most of these kinds of YT channels are poorly done and a waste of time.....this channel is WELL DONE, professionally presented, and worthwhile !!! ....Subscribed....
@@cgstech5657 if only you could speak at a human pace. I have to speed up x2 to get to more or less comfortable comprehension speed. But then the video goes past too quickly. If you do’t have enough to say, pause. Probably better than speaking in such a gummy bear manner.
@@eugeniab2990 Umm not sure what you mean. Voice over is too slow? I didn't have any complaints like this before. I'll let my review guy know your input.
Was surprise to see the complete lack of staggered structure in the “Perfect Block” product in the last system. Seems like a basic building technique was being ignored, and I can’t help but wonder why.
I noticed that right away, no staggering, it must be a mistake, but maybe they were too lazy to cut the blocks in half for a staggered course. It’s inexplicable to me.
That's what I thought as well and it looks so counter-intuitive, but this is because bricks are load-bearing and the staggered pattern serves to redistribute the load and bind/interlock together the blocks (bricks). Here the blocks only serve as a mould to pour concrete in and then serve as insulation, the load bearing part is provided by the concrete that is poured into them. Think about these blocks as arranging your insulation.
After the Block are set concrete is grouted through the holes for a complete web of reinforced concrete inside the whole structure of the wall very strong. This is not a new building system it was invented in 1965 in Australia it's called rostra block.
Hi, yeah I agree cost is a factor, but it's kinda hard to give an estimate when there are so many other things to take into consideration than just the cost of the blocks. Only Conrete shell companies and Aerecura rammed earth company builds turnkey solutions. Binishells have different system that range in price and Aerecura is from my research a bit more expensive than conventional construction because of the labor involved. Comfort Block is I think about $30 for square foot and the OSBlock and Perfect Block you have to contact the companies for a quote.
Don Raptor No way to be 250$! Standard construction is ~150$ depend where you live,often less than that. Concrete dome shouldnt be more expensive,and if they quote you that much,than that company sells hot air ballones!
@@cgstech5657 I mean, it's not hard to just find a house that was built with one method and then find the cost of building it and divide that by the square footage, then find a comparably sized traditional house and do the same. Too much work for a youtuber, of course. You might actually have to do some research instead of just copy and pasting videos and then reading their advertisements.
On those blocks with styrofoam inside, there’s a product in Texas that mixes styrofoam with a special super hard cement mixture that makes cinderblocks that are super light, great insulation, and you can’t break or damage them with a hammer.
@@edsonjavierrr - In this video they are called “Perfect Block,” however every manufacturer has their own brand name. Search for “styrofoam concrete blocks” here on UA-cam and you will find dozens of examples.
These kind of buildings should be built as houses, schools etc., in tornado and hurricane prone areas to avoid getting the building blown away and also save many lives.
Excellent presentations! The Binishells look the most promising, but the Comfort Block solution looks like it would cost upwards of $250 per square foot for a turnkey structure.
Excellent video! Developed my own system in the early 1980's. Never was able to proceed with my design due to lack of technology at the time. Maybe one day .....
did you need to employ millions of nano robots for it to work? idk what your plan is but we have advanced greatly in terms of technology in the last 40 years. we might not have nano robots but we have a lot more materials to work with.
Perfect blocks may be environmentally friendly, but if you have to mention how easy it is to fix damaged blocks in the sales presentation, you'll be fixing some blocks. Also note that nothing was said about its ability to weather high winds and such. Comfort blocks seemed like the most viable option for most people.
My two favorite are the dome and styrofoam block, I wonder if there can be made a fiberglass strand reinforced styro-shot-crete to make a concrete dome.
10:14 you really should stagger blocks its structurally important. if you build a house out of legos like that its easy to knock down. if you stagger them its much harder to break a wall apart.
Not very much if the blocks itself are not supposed to hold anything up. What this product is, is basically a styrofoam mold for the concrete that can stay in place as insulation after the pour. You also see connecting channels in those blocks to allow for an encased continuous concrete structure for the whole wall. I don't think the styrofoam blocks add very much real support to the structure, but that it is completely dependent on the concrete filled in. But I agree that it looks wrong to do it that way
Yeah it was weird for those some of the building had the blocks offset but then a bunch of others just had them stacked up directly on top of each other. I thought that was a little odd looking.
Those are supposed to have rebar every course and down each column and then filled with concrete.. I'm not sure why they didn't show that, that's one of the main selling points? It makes a very strong structure if put together correctly
Solar will zzzzzzzzzz oh volcanoes have a tendency to block out light for solar, no bueno! However wind might work if the freeze doesn't make the turbines freeze ☝....... Then again there is praying and that will alow me to answer clearly, Salvation's candle! Hahahahahaha. Oh my
I am building walls with glass jars filled with plastic bags and other small foil lined wrappers. Once the wall is set, just apply water proof cement and you are good to go
@@bryanmanx it's attitudes like yours that holds back the industry, builders need to move with the times and step out of their comfort zone. Just think if the auto industry was like the building industry, we would still be driving T model fords. Embrace change and do some investigating before you judge a new technology 👍😊 ☮️ Not meaning to sound nasty, just my opinion 😊
@@colinstace1758 lol not saying I'm against it. Just speaking to how we get so accustomed to seeing something one way. I am super excited about all these new building methods. I made a serious effort to build a monolithic dome. Unfortunately my wife is overly concerned with what others would think.
@@colinstace1758 :- Please would you young " Hi Flyers " take into consideration the " Baby Boomers " ?? Most of us struggle with stairs / steps ! Quite frankly , a lot of us have housing you younger folk would want to buy ....c'mmon , join the dots ... allow us pensioners ground floor , decent easy access living with community services !! It seems the younger generations are very bitter and jealous ??
The mold proof blocks are mold proof. But however perfectly they make mold proof blocks, if you're living in a house of its temperature gap between in and out of the house is too big, then the house starts to be moldy. That's freezing phenomenon especially in winter when the heating temperature is too high making big temperature gap from outside cold weather, it makes mold start to grow.
The last system seems highest value, and easiest DIY project. I might first look at that for a basic "cabin on the lake" type use, to test it's potential. The logistics of availability, transportation costs, and a final leg to an off grid site would be major determining factors, as well as initial costs.
the concrete dome would be good if used in makeing road tunneling the shaide space and ease of install seems perfect for the road work of sheltering the roads many benifits there
What’s the cost on the cockerel dome with the concrete sprayed (gunite?) to the outside? I’m thinking of a small dome on the order of 1200 sq ft for the living area and maybe 500 sq ft for the garage.
top part dome with fan blowing downward and the air intake lined with UV light. Bottom has a series of posts that the dome sits on, roll up doors between posts with screen on inside. Now you have a covid safe sitting area for restaurants that is lockable but still like a outside patio.
It is just the insulating form that is lined up. Those joints don't matter because the wall gets filled with a continuous pour of concrete. There is no engineering reason to avoid lining up the insulation. If they are choosing not to lay them in a running bond, you can bet it is intentional. My guess is that such long blocks could have trouble aligning well when placed in running bond (small issues become amplified over the length), so they save trouble by not doing that.
@@SimonASNG - Nah they are just being lazy. An even better idea would be to offer the blocks in two lengths. It would not change much, but speed up built time. It also takes up the same amount of crate space and adds no extra weight either. The concrete poor would actually be stronger by cross crossing rather than run up and down in thin rectangular pillars as well. The best reason to overlap each layer though is that in the event of any movement, likely from the soil, no cracks are likely to form or begin to show..
@@SimonASNG what about redundancy? One engineering principle is to have helping properties appear several times in a structure in different parts of it to reduce the probability of error or failure. Seems legit to add more stability to any layer of your wall when possible since that's the key thing in construction. But they still may have good reasons not to do so, like material constraints or whatever. I'm not an engineer.
@@juxtapode2781 Insulation is not structural, so it doesn't actually add much stability. However, running bond might make it much more difficult to lay correctly. Bricks are short, so the running bond doesn't cause a problem. However, if you run long bricks or long tiles or even plank flooring, you will see they recommend against running bond because it is almost impossible to get a good fit if the lines are not perfect. In bricks, you stagger the joints to reduce the chances of a crack propagating, it is the long vertical joints you want to avoid, not vertical solid. Imagine the insulation completely evaporates (magic) and this system still leaves you with a solid rebar reinforced wall with no joints and without the potential problems of trying to run the insulation in running bond. No joints is better than staggered joints. Anyone who tells you differently just doesn't understand why joints are staggered.
Wondering how those concrete homes stack up so as not becoming heat or cold sinks during hot or cold weather? As one who lives in TX, this is a big 'yuck' in the summer - I have a concrete slab patio that gets very warm during hot weather...guess where all that heat tends to transfer to? :-( Tho I do like the siren call of "strong, safe & QUIET!"
@@Eclectic1967 Hopefully 10 years an not a century, otherwise your children might wanna start looking for a new place to call their home. Other than that, log cabins are great for being aesthetic.
I doubt the US ever adopts concrete homes throughout. Especially considering that even Europe is starting to have wood skyscrapers. When wood structures act as a great way to carbon sequester also.
You made one mistake in the beginning of the video. You said that the inflated form was sprayed with shotcrete and then rebar was added but rebar is added first then the shotcrete.
Walls are one thing, but the roof is the time and expense consumer and the weak point for hurricanes and tornados. The binishell is the only one I'd have any interest in because it one unified structure.
this channel is always such a breath of fresh air, between the flood of lazy compilations of product presentation clips. the effort is much apprecieated!
Thanks! Yeah we try to do our best. A lot of interesting videos coming.
Most of these kinds of YT channels are poorly done and a waste of time.....this channel is WELL DONE, professionally presented, and worthwhile !!!
....Subscribed....
Thanks man, we try to do our best.
@@cgstech5657 if only you could speak at a human pace. I have to speed up x2 to get to more or less comfortable comprehension speed. But then the video goes past too quickly. If you do’t have enough to say, pause. Probably better than speaking in such a gummy bear manner.
@@eugeniab2990 Umm not sure what you mean. Voice over is too slow? I didn't have any complaints like this before. I'll let my review guy know your input.
LOVE the free form shapes and curves soft corners easy on the eyes very beautiful ❤️
.this channel is WELL DONE, professionally presented, and worthwhile !!!
I just instantly subscribed to this channel after watching for a few seconds. I love channels like this. Who doesn't like cool gadgets and... stuff?
I love the rammed earth home concept
WNC could use many of these ideas right about now. Much love
I love the inflatable dome structures. He said they can be buried
Thanks for sharing such interesting building materials.
Practical innovations to building anything👍
Like this idea! Wish your company invest this business in Thailand 😁😁😁👍👍👍
Was surprise to see the complete lack of staggered structure in the “Perfect Block” product in the last system. Seems like a basic building technique was being ignored, and I can’t help but wonder why.
I noticed that right away, no staggering, it must be a mistake, but maybe they were too lazy to cut the blocks in half for a staggered course. It’s inexplicable to me.
That's what I thought as well and it looks so counter-intuitive, but this is because bricks are load-bearing and the staggered pattern serves to redistribute the load and bind/interlock together the blocks (bricks).
Here the blocks only serve as a mould to pour concrete in and then serve as insulation, the load bearing part is provided by the concrete that is poured into them.
Think about these blocks as arranging your insulation.
my thoughts exactly.
J C Staggering always improved strength, even when we are talking about the interior continuum of concrete and rebar
After the Block are set concrete is grouted through the holes for a complete web of reinforced concrete inside the whole structure of the wall very strong. This is not a new building system it was invented in 1965 in Australia it's called rostra block.
cost comparison per sq ft would be a nice metric
$250.00 per square foot turn key sounds about right! I researched a Concrete come home. I built a brick home for $35.00 a square foot.
Hi, yeah I agree cost is a factor, but it's kinda hard to give an estimate when there are so many other things to take into consideration than just the cost of the blocks. Only Conrete shell companies and Aerecura rammed earth company builds turnkey solutions. Binishells have different system that range in price and Aerecura is from my research a bit more expensive than conventional construction because of the labor involved. Comfort Block is I think about $30 for square foot and the OSBlock and Perfect Block you have to contact the companies for a quote.
@@cgstech5657 if you can just get a really rough estimate for the average size home in the USA like a 1500- 2500 square foot house
Don Raptor No way to be 250$!
Standard construction is ~150$ depend where you live,often less than that. Concrete dome shouldnt be more expensive,and if they quote you that much,than that company sells hot air ballones!
@@cgstech5657 I mean, it's not hard to just find a house that was built with one method and then find the cost of building it and divide that by the square footage, then find a comparably sized traditional house and do the same.
Too much work for a youtuber, of course. You might actually have to do some research instead of just copy and pasting videos and then reading their advertisements.
On those blocks with styrofoam inside, there’s a product in Texas that mixes styrofoam with a special super hard cement mixture that makes cinderblocks that are super light, great insulation, and you can’t break or damage them with a hammer.
That’s probably the “Perfect Block” shown at the end of the video
What are they called
@@edsonjavierrr - In this video they are called “Perfect Block,” however every manufacturer has their own brand name. Search for “styrofoam concrete blocks” here on UA-cam and you will find dozens of examples.
@@Erin-Thor thanks!
Styrocrete and aircrete
These kind of buildings should be built as houses, schools etc., in tornado and hurricane prone areas to avoid getting the building blown away and also save many lives.
Very exciting options!
For the very wealthy!
Excellent presentations! The Binishells look the most promising, but the Comfort Block solution looks like it would cost upwards of $250 per square foot for a turnkey structure.
Excellent video! Developed my own system in the early 1980's. Never was able to proceed with my design due to lack of technology at the time. Maybe one day .....
did you need to employ millions of nano robots for it to work? idk what your plan is but we have advanced greatly in terms of technology in the last 40 years.
we might not have nano robots but we have a lot more materials to work with.
Good video! Nice job in being thorough!
I'd go with
Winner winner 🐔 🍽 dinner
Texas #2 with inflatable dome & work all year around........
AIRCRETE ~ can be used by a family wanting to build their own home inexpensively, with the benefits described in the great video.
Totally agree.
Frumos și interesant, bravo.
Wow you have houses for the future to live in, have work shop space, and room for store houses. I see my dream future house in this video.
Greatly informative video...perfect narration
Perfect blocks may be environmentally friendly, but if you have to mention how easy it is to fix damaged blocks in the sales presentation, you'll be fixing some blocks. Also note that nothing was said about its ability to weather high winds and such.
Comfort blocks seemed like the most viable option for most people.
He did mention high winds do not bother the housing
FANTASTIC !!! Thank you !
My two favorite are the dome and styrofoam block, I wonder if there can be made a fiberglass strand reinforced styro-shot-crete to make a concrete dome.
10:14 you really should stagger blocks its structurally important.
if you build a house out of legos like that its easy to knock down. if you stagger them its much harder to break a wall apart.
It even looks wrong
Not very much if the blocks itself are not supposed to hold anything up. What this product is, is basically a styrofoam mold for the concrete that can stay in place as insulation after the pour. You also see connecting channels in those blocks to allow for an encased continuous concrete structure for the whole wall. I don't think the styrofoam blocks add very much real support to the structure, but that it is completely dependent on the concrete filled in. But I agree that it looks wrong to do it that way
thought the same thing
I'd love one of those dome homes in Miami
Withstand alot of those hurricanes
Impossible to need zoning requirements!
Miami is a disgrace for housing
The "perfect blocks" should be stacked like bricks in an alternating pattern instead of directly on top of each other.
Yeah it was weird for those some of the building had the blocks offset but then a bunch of others just had them stacked up directly on top of each other. I thought that was a little odd looking.
@@zancrus9629 it is structurally weak and can easily topple with the right conditions. (i.e. earthquake etc.)
Those are supposed to have rebar every course and down each column and then filled with concrete.. I'm not sure why they didn't show that, that's one of the main selling points? It makes a very strong structure if put together correctly
Great Footage 😊
👍 Thanks. That was informative.
Love it great ideas for humanity :)
What part of humanty can afford the excess of $250.00 per square foot?
Cool stuff !
Can’t wait for better material for commercial flat roof, especially combine solar energy in one !
Solar will zzzzzzzzzz oh volcanoes have a tendency to block out light for solar, no bueno!
However wind might work if the freeze doesn't make the turbines freeze ☝.......
Then again there is praying and that will alow me to answer clearly,
Salvation's candle! Hahahahahaha.
Oh my
I am building walls with glass jars filled with plastic bags and other small foil lined wrappers. Once the wall is set, just apply water proof cement and you are good to go
Do you remove the labels from the jars first ?
Great video and ideas
Well done - Informative and well narrated.
thank you- well done
cool. makes me want to try to make my own lightweight concrete blocks.
Enjoyed your video
Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up
Wow Beautiful 👌😍
Very well done. Thnx
VERY INTERESTING!
Terrific information. !!
Super weird seeing unstaggered blocks on buildings.
go to Japan it'll throw you for loop
Ya no matter what anyone says to me I will still not feel right about it.
@@bryanmanx it's attitudes like yours that holds back the industry, builders need to move with the times and step out of their comfort zone. Just think if the auto industry was like the building industry, we would still be driving T model fords.
Embrace change and do some investigating before you judge a new technology 👍😊 ☮️
Not meaning to sound nasty, just my opinion 😊
@@colinstace1758 lol not saying I'm against it. Just speaking to how we get so accustomed to seeing something one way. I am super excited about all these new building methods. I made a serious effort to build a monolithic dome. Unfortunately my wife is overly concerned with what others would think.
@@colinstace1758 :- Please would you young " Hi Flyers " take into consideration the " Baby Boomers " ?? Most of us struggle with stairs / steps !
Quite frankly , a lot of us have housing you younger folk would want to buy ....c'mmon , join the dots ... allow us pensioners ground floor , decent easy access living with community services !! It seems the younger generations are very bitter and jealous ??
You said multiple times that concrete is mold proof. That's absolutely not true at all.
@irmux skeptic That's like saying rotten trees are mold proof, as long as you keep it in direct sunlight on top of a mountain far away from the ocean
More resistant to mold would be a better terminology.
@@twizz420 Certain capacities are better at resisting mold in others indeed.
The mold proof blocks are mold proof. But however perfectly they make mold proof blocks, if you're living in a house of its temperature gap between in and out of the house is too big, then the house starts to be moldy. That's freezing phenomenon especially in winter when the heating temperature is too high making big temperature gap from outside cold weather, it makes mold start to grow.
I heard “mold resistant.”
Why didn't they offset the blocks in the last one?
No need because they fill the inside with concrete and it locks it all together.
it is great way to build this is great technology and much more and strong
Que que material son los bloks gracias
Very beautiful it's fantastic
The last system seems highest value, and easiest DIY project. I might first look at that for a basic "cabin on the lake" type use, to test it's potential.
The logistics of availability, transportation costs, and a final leg to an off grid site would be major determining factors, as well as initial costs.
I really like these..
Interesting building ideas! Thanks for sharing.
Dome homes are the BEST!! structures for living known to man.
I like this and would consider it as a choice
Brilliant!!!!
WoooooW so nice job
👍 interesting
the concrete dome would be good if used in makeing road tunneling the shaide space and ease of install seems perfect for the road work of sheltering the roads many benifits there
Binishells has me thinking back to the Foam Home and original Planet of the Apes movies :)
Very cool
Which is the cheapest of these methods?
What’s the cost on the cockerel dome with the concrete sprayed (gunite?) to the outside? I’m thinking of a small dome on the order of 1200 sq ft for the living area and maybe 500 sq ft for the garage.
Amazing
Good, how i get the information more about this build
No mention of hemp Crete or soil bag building, any more coming in this series? Also would be useful to know pricing per square foot
It's about TIME.
It is my dream house, hope we will cooperate well when in action. Love that a lot!!
Which one is the cheapest technology per square inch?
Depends on how you define "cheap". Just for building, or in the long run?
What is the name of the firt method please ?
I'm french and I dont understand...
Thank you
Domes...the homes of the future!
top part dome with fan blowing downward and the air intake lined with UV light. Bottom has a series of posts that the dome sits on, roll up doors between posts with screen on inside. Now you have a covid safe sitting area for restaurants that is lockable but still like a outside patio.
You must be in Kalifornia.
Great idea for building where can I look into building a two-story dome home with a inner courtyard with garden and swimming pool?
Hi, links are in description below the video. You can find more information there.
Super .
Great videos
very great
I have some property in Quincy, Florida, that I would like to have a dome home put on. Do you build in Florida??
Fire 🔥 proof blocks 😕🧐
10:30 ... NEVER LINE UP YOUR JOINTS ...
right they should used overlapping layers
It is just the insulating form that is lined up. Those joints don't matter because the wall gets filled with a continuous pour of concrete. There is no engineering reason to avoid lining up the insulation.
If they are choosing not to lay them in a running bond, you can bet it is intentional. My guess is that such long blocks could have trouble aligning well when placed in running bond (small issues become amplified over the length), so they save trouble by not doing that.
@@SimonASNG - Nah they are just being lazy. An even better idea would be to offer the blocks in two lengths. It would not change much, but speed up built time. It also takes up the same amount of crate space and adds no extra weight either. The concrete poor would actually be stronger by cross crossing rather than run up and down in thin rectangular pillars as well. The best reason to overlap each layer though is that in the event of any movement, likely from the soil, no cracks are likely to form or begin to show..
@@SimonASNG what about redundancy? One engineering principle is to have helping properties appear several times in a structure in different parts of it to reduce the probability of error or failure. Seems legit to add more stability to any layer of your wall when possible since that's the key thing in construction. But they still may have good reasons not to do so, like material constraints or whatever. I'm not an engineer.
@@juxtapode2781 Insulation is not structural, so it doesn't actually add much stability. However, running bond might make it much more difficult to lay correctly. Bricks are short, so the running bond doesn't cause a problem. However, if you run long bricks or long tiles or even plank flooring, you will see they recommend against running bond because it is almost impossible to get a good fit if the lines are not perfect. In bricks, you stagger the joints to reduce the chances of a crack propagating, it is the long vertical joints you want to avoid, not vertical solid. Imagine the insulation completely evaporates (magic) and this system still leaves you with a solid rebar reinforced wall with no joints and without the potential problems of trying to run the insulation in running bond. No joints is better than staggered joints. Anyone who tells you differently just doesn't understand why joints are staggered.
Wondering how those concrete homes stack up so as not becoming heat or cold sinks during hot or cold weather? As one who lives in TX, this is a big 'yuck' in the summer - I have a concrete slab patio that gets very warm during hot weather...guess where all that heat tends to transfer to? :-( Tho I do like the siren call of "strong, safe & QUIET!"
excellent
Concrete brick house sound insulation no flex and can withstand harsh weather? Welcome to Europe
They have some minor flex tho but compared to wood you'd say "none"
Well here in Latinamerica all of the families build their house with concrete blocks beacuse is cheaper and better than wood.
@@Eclectic1967 Hopefully 10 years an not a century, otherwise your children might wanna start looking for a new place to call their home. Other than that, log cabins are great for being aesthetic.
I doubt the US ever adopts concrete homes throughout. Especially considering that even Europe is starting to have wood skyscrapers. When wood structures act as a great way to carbon sequester also.
Europe is a shit hole bro
What does it cost
Looks like a house you can build when we move to Mars in the future
Bring your own dome
Remixed cave and hut houses indeed.
Nice house
Can you build an app specifically to join groups to build houses?
A subreddit or a discord channel could be used, I suppose.
What is the hurricane rating on each of these systems?
0:14 очень крутая идея постройки домов.
I once saw a home made of concret, where the whole house was a fillabld form imcluding the roof all pumped at the same time. WHAT WAS IT CALLED
Thanks😍
Intresting stuff
I saw no mention of Basalt rebar or woven mesh as a substitute for rebar? Comments?
I own one of Thomas Edisons concrete homes, and I love it...
Awesome
You made one mistake in the beginning of the video. You said that the inflated form was sprayed with shotcrete and then rebar was added but rebar is added first then the shotcrete.
I would like to learn more about your dome housing and the cost
Links are in the description below, you can find more info there.
Just need to know costs for average house??
bad place to be in Earth quake , Tornado resistance + wind tolerant . LOVE THIS IDEA
Walls are one thing, but the roof is the time and expense consumer and the weak point for hurricanes and tornados. The binishell is the only one I'd have any interest in because it one unified structure.
Would rammed earth walls not emit high levels of radon, just like pure concrete walls would do?
Could you give me a link to the information on radon coming from concrete walls? Was looking into building with it.