Building Round & Square Cast AirCrete Tiny House $26 per SqFt Rent Mortgage Free Off Grid Bugout R
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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See step by step the process of casting an AirCrete tiny house both round and square. Casting walls is super fast and much easier way to build your own aircrete home for $26 per square foot! The example in the video was build for under $12 per square foot.
There is no need to start by building a huge overwhelming project. Just start with expansion in mind and finish one piece at a time!
You are invited to attend the most complete AirCrete training anywhere at the Terlingua Texas School of alternative building each October. You will learn starting from the ground up to finished and move in ready. Learn Foundation, plumbing, AirCrete & engineering, Slip Forming /Casting, roofing, flooring, tile work, solar power system design, lithium battery pack building, batter management systems, water catchment & recycling, and worm composting flush toilet systems, Air-conditioning sizing & installation. Everything you need to have a comfortable working home!
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Thank you. 😊 Great explanation and very informative. The idea of building the home in parts, so you have completed sections, is was exactly how I was thinking. Our property requires a minimum of 1000sq ft home, so I wanted to permit in phases if they will allow. I will definitely check out the tutorials!
I have liked your video Series, mostly as it's more thorough knowledge. I main goal is to help our MX connections. Then to facilitate our own retirement in MX around a particular location on the Pacific.
What an awesome way to end the year, and begin a new one! Inlove your channel!
Liked, subbed. Does aircrete get harder with age if rained on after cured? What do you think about adjusting the aircrete with each layer so you have a stronger bottom mix that gradually gets lighter toward the top?
Before this video I’ve only seen domes, I’m glad to know they work for square, rectangular structures.
The modular piece by piece approach is a great strategy. You're right about "getting a win" being important. Plus it makes it so you can build as you can afford new rooms.
that pueblo style house is my favorite
Wasn’t intending on subscribing so quickly, but the advice of ‘getting a win’ when it comes to doing projects was just too solid to pass up.
Subbed!!!
In 2000, I had a vision of a young couple with the one Hellsing a boy and a girl's hand so four people coming toward me to my right and to their left was an underground house and they came to the door and there was a welcome mat out and the note on the door said if you find this home it's yours we built it for you. There is food everything ready to eat silverware pots and pans plates cups saucers a fire ready to light in the stove. Ever since I've studied every single alternative building system I could find wondering if I could explain how to build those homes that fast and that quickly and that safely to have them be Underground I think aircreate has a lot to do with it and I really appreciate you doing it you've been doing and helping people I'd love to get out to your course or at least get a course someday and thank you for your UA-cam thank you so much for everything you're doing!!
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I have been looking for some intelligent advice and videos on building with aircrete and found it on your channel. I am happily subscribing today!
This looks like a great way to build a tiny house or a cabin on the cheap. I love it!
Next year I am very interested in taking your course, and I want to bring my two son's along because this is something I think they should learn. I have a few more questions, more later. Thank you for this very well done video.
Thank You Tiny-Giant LifeStyle. I have been researching into something for someone, and this may be their answer. I shall plug into your other videos and what I have seen so far, I think they will be impressed.
They have been looking for something doable for some time now, and it is affordable and sustainable.
Very impressed, and thank you for sharing this information, as alot may be looking for this.
Peace bro
For a bigger square home, could you use actual concrete pillars as the load bearing structure and then use aircrete panels as the walls? Thanks 🙏
Yes. This is what is done for code approved buildings.
Build a Tiny Survival Greenhouse/Bunk Pod. Kind of a mini earthship, but the back part is pods. The glazing could incorporate design concepts from solar ovens and refrigerator doors.
My Sis and I are going to build an aircrete home. Up until now we were going to build a Geodome, but after listening today, we may make it a square house with a dome over the top and a courtyard in the middle. I have already subscribed and liked your channel. I've enjoyed watching you along with several other aircrete channels. We pick what we need from each channel. One is great for DIY. This one is great for general information, and the potential for attending a workshop, if we can afford it. That has been our challenge so far is affording to do all of this stuff. I'm on SS, so I will almost have to start my own channel so I can afford to do all that I want to get done. I would even like to build an aircrete boat so we can go where and when we want. I have drawings for that already.
How are you doing with you're project?
Thank you for making this wonderful service available.
I think you’re doing this with a good heart. 👍👍
Wow! This is awesome! A more eco-friendly and cost effective solution to homes and structures! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Your welcome
It’s not really eco friendly... why not use mud and straw? That’s eco friendly
Hi Just found your vid. Just experienced the flooding in Vermont and was searching tiny homes to help the homeless up here. FEMA and some others are spearheading alot as well. I learned of aircrete I can see it being a valuable resource for this. Even if not used with this event i will be doing my due diligence to see gow to have a system ready and possibly a list of owners with land that we can get trailers and have these ready built on them to transport to the needed areas. I like your pueblo style for this idea. So will definitely need to learn and see what I can do and see what your current status is and progress with your system. I had also contact Domegaia and learned they do workshops as well not sure if you are related at this point or not. But just gathering info and hope I can process this and have a viable solution for what i would like to be involved with. Maybe even find land and build for myself as an example here in New England maybe even see if a workshop would be doable this year. Ok thats my thought off the top of my head. Love seeing these ideas come to fruition. Scary to see wood buildings burn. Time for cement to rise not just in warm climates.
I was literally wondering about round vs. square yesterday. lol. Thanks brody
Can't wait to start building. Thank you so much for the very informative videos.
What would you do to make it naturally cool? I'm 62 y/o female and always wanted to build my own home, and now I think I could actually do it with the help of your course.!thanks!
Keep it up! Getting ready to cast an aircrete fire proof vault myself.
Hi ty for this wonderful video but can you actually build for about 120 square meters rectangular long size? And where is your location?
How did you learn about Aircrete? How long have you been using it to build? How long does it last compared to cenderblocks? Thanks
I am so excited to start!!!
I wonder, would rebar or even chicken wire within the slip form reinforce the aircrete like normal concrete? I'm interested in this method because of the cost and insulation value. But I'm spooked about it not holding up in a decent storm.
Hi I just found your channel I'm very interested in your knowledge with air Crete my husband and I are planning to move to Cochise county Az in the near future and looking at alternative building methods
Great way to live sustainably!
This looks like an amazing course. Thanks for sharing.
That price is insanely cheap- that is amazing! The top of the cylindrical one is a bit jarring though, I wonder how someone would make A dome of sorts, or even just a circle.
Use blocks and compass arm to build a dome.
I've always wanted to go back to Guanajuato and learn how to build those brick domes. No forms used, pre Hispanic. I hear the last brick is tossed up into place. My foundation guy was from Guanajuato and I asked him if I could learn. He wanted to talk about how he hid his guns in the walls of his new house.
By the way not sure where I was but I saw the sign for the school. I mean I know what county I was in just not where in the county. Sometimes I go out to Agua Fria and my brain runs off and get it's toes stuck in the bentonite. Leaves everything behind except the bad attitude because it's time to head east to the pan-am freeway.
A non profit gallery I'm involved in wants to build a cuartito in the back for traveling artists. It'll likely be sized the same as the existing shed that needs to be removed. I would love to build some aircrete tilt wall panels. It would be perfect to shore up the falling down board and batten shed, pour a foundation perimeter, deck it, then pour a common denominator wall panel. And when there is enough parts make the shed change from a shored up, rotting bottomed 100year old structure still energized by knob and tube ungrounded electrical service to modern and livable and revenue generating! We'll see. Hopefully we don't die from malaria this summer they say we lived through the 'rona. That's only because of the sotol I drank for 16 months while I designed a John Prine tattoo on my inner forearm reminding me of the smell of snakes in the air.
Time to make breakfast and kill some grass with cardboard.
Yeeehaw.
Why aren’t these being used to address the homeless veterans situation?
I love what you're up to! Keep it up :) can't wait to visit for ourselves. It was so nice to meet you all today!
You are welcome to come by any tjme
I gotta know why did you build the entrance of that structure facing directly towards the other structure with such a tiny gap to get in
working on my first class online, looking forward to the hands on class
where is the classes online?
Hi there! I’m new to all this. This may be a dumb question but if you don’t know you don’t know. Do you put the sealing fabric on the inside of the walls as well? Also, can you make a small window; and would it be difficult to do? Thank you for your time and generosity. I am grateful to receive all the beneficial information you are sharing.
Yes it covers the entire structure
Thank you for the information!
Wonderful. I see that the structure was not using rebar internal to airctrete. Thank you for your presentation.
Your welcome.
May want to check out honey do carpenter, and Aircrete Hary.
Very interested! I'm northern Canada would love to know how it performs up here.
The thickness is adjusted for desired insulation which also increases load bearing strength for heavy snow loads
What would be amazing, for people who don't live in the USA and who can not travel, would be a full written course, that features everything that is taught in the full course at the terlingua school.
It would be a lot of work to create that, but if you did I would buy it immediately.
Great vid as always.
I wish you would put a rocket stove in one of these timy aircrete houses, and a greywater system that feeds fruit trees, would be even more awesome... Yes there's not much heating and cooling costs, but if the grid goes down at some point, this is not as good as a fully self sustained system.
There is a pdf manual and video courses. I am looking into having amazon print on demand.
@@TinyGiantLifeStyle Yes but each time I check, the website says that 80% of the lessons are not available for download yet. That's why I'm still waiting instead of buying it. But I look forward to it very much!
Very interesting. I appreciated your practical advice for making air crete.
Great work. I have built a lot of buildings in my life and have come to cellular concrete 7 years ago. Have not built one yet, but plan on it.
Awesome!
I like the idea of minimizing the use of cement by foaming it up, considering how making cement is the biggest source of greenhouse gases on the planet. Would it be possible to foam up adobe?
I do not believe you can foam adobe. The carbon foot print of a small structure can be canceled by using the greywater and growing 12 trees. It honestly no bad considering it could be a multi-generational home. Not only that but the average person uses FAR more energy and produces far more carbon driving to work daily. Then these the purchases energy. Either produces so much carbon that the amount of cement used for a modest homes doest even being to measure up.
@@TinyGiantLifeStyle That is what I was thinking. Make the house carbon negative or at least close to zero and you make it up. I've been following you awhile and I certainly hope I can come to the October school. I'm guessing the free showers you have there are unheated water, right? Thanks so much for the work you do!
Woah! The workshop sounds like an amazing opportunity to learn aircrete!
You're welcome to attend one we have another in April there's also an online video course and then if you dig through my videos the information is free
Wow, I love these!
Look forward to what you are going to show me.
So if your planning on doing add-ons, do you leave the doorway/missing wall when you build the structure or do you build it with the hole and just cover it someway until you’re ready to put on the next room?
You can frame it in or cut it out later.
Thank You for the vids and your school. Although i cannot afford to come to the building I believe in what your doing and will take the class soon.
Hopefully you found the videos that show how to do all this the information is free and it is out there in my videos. I wish you the best of luck
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Are these also fireproof?
This looks like a great method!
I think I'd go for a 9 foot round. Just a little more space but not that much more work.
Great information. Thankyou.
My question is. how do I go about hiring someone to build this for a reasonable cost, on the land that I own?
Once you understand the process and details then you hire unskilled labor; $10 per hour here. You can place ads in craigs list or post availability at your state labor/job office. Then you have to train them and be willing to fire them if they don't get the world done or don't listen.
Electric, plumbing, HVAC and skilled labor is expensive and a little risky to let just anyone do it for you unless you understand exactly what needs to happen. Doing these things your self or hiring a guy from a company to do it on the "side" can work ok.
I wonder how aircrete would do through a Maine winter, whether the structure should be off the ground
The "competition" is doing a workshop in Maine later this month (August 2021)! www.domegaia.com/upcoming-workshops.html Presumably they would address the specifics of adapting to Maine weather in that workshop...
Thank you for sharing! Was Adobe roof more difficult to work on versus the wood structure?
It's just different. Not particularly difficult
Great video we want to build one in Costa Rica, how many crew would you recommend to do the room/dome in two- four weeks.
Depends on size. The limiting factor is 12 inch depth of pour daily.
Hello this video is very interested please tell me when and where is the next course.thanks
October 10'th Near Terlingua Texas
tinygiantlife.biz/2021/02/14/aircrete-school-hands-on-training-workshops/
There's also video courses
tinygiantlife.biz/aircrete-video-training/off-grid-aircrete-round-tiny-house-step-by-step/
What type of dwelling would you recommend for a rural area with deep snow, for an 80 yo woman that wants to build a tiny dwelling. there is no road into the plot of land, all material will be carted by hand into the area.
That's a hard set of parameters and depends on so many things. Remote roadless structure would be best with onsite materials. Log cabin or earth... How much work can you do?
Can you make a video that shows how to make & detailed use of the rectangular stack forms
I have
Nice presentation
Interesting as always! I hope that the "health situation" is better next year, so that I can make the trip to the US and attend the course.
It would be interesting to hear more on windows. Well insulated windows are quite expensive. But maybe they are worth it? Or maybe one can build a 3 pane window of decent quality? You have very broad building knowledge, and your input on windows would therefore be very valuable.
We had people travel all the way from Alaska to Southwest Texas so far all the limitations and quarantine is really only mental.
Fascinating and inspiring!!
When is your next class in Texas
April 2, 2022
Nice! thinking about coming in May.
If you have any questions about the event just ask. I hope you get to make it out in May!
This is a very valuable information, Thanos a lot for share It.
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Can I ask why that round building is nestled up so close with the rectangular one to where the door access is impeded? Was this intentional or accidental?
To join them together as one
How do I build the wooden structures you pour the concrete in?
How do I know it’s level?
I would be interested in building something like this
Check out the play list of videos
You mentioned that you would not recommend designing a below ground structure. What about a 1/2 basement ?
You should use ferrocement or something to support the sideways push of weight dirt. AIrCrete can be used as insulating infill inside that.
Thanks
Did you not have to get building permits from local authorities? Even if i build a shed I need a building permit, a small room house I cannot see them not forcing me to remove it from property (ie tear it down) if I do not have a permit.
I choose to live in freedom.
My building dept asks for two copies of the construction plans (blueprints).
With plans in hand, get the permit, and start with a small section while building the rest?
No septic no permit.
The construction seems simple enough to follow by most folks, yet is there a repository of blueprints to access? Or, have to get new plans drawn? Thanks
The internet is full of house blueprints. Just copy one. Usually they accept hand drawn plant too.
www.google.com/search?q=house+floor+plans&sxsrf=ALeKk00gnCFjABWFUbCsyB7I9dHzUMFIfA:1620063014667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigjoKEha7wAhXSHDQIHTfJDeoQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1396&bih=691
I'm curious as to why the aircrete doesn't stick to the form that makes the mold?
Dissimilar materials. Oil is also generally applies to the wood
Can you use fiber reinforcement in aircrete?
Yes, some fibers lower insulation value
Are there any videos of larger buildings?
Most people don't have the money and effort to build larger structures. Ours must be small to complete over a 1 week workshop.
This might work for a sauna with some added materials. Great video, thank you! (Hope Inwin the freebie) ♡aircrete!
I do plan to build a sauna as well as a walk in cooler.
Thank you so much for providing this important information to the masses!
I would love to attend your school. I'm working on my PDC, and need to retire first. I liked Texas since I was stationed there in the 70's. You need an old Nurse down in Brewster County?
The desert is not for everyone but I love it down here!
I took 3 PDCs and am really looking forward to building Bill Mollison's desert garden! There is a video on my channel shot nearby at a desert oasis already made. So it's very encouraging to know the possibilities!
@@TinyGiantLifeStyle I watched your Desert Oasis vid, and have actually walked the Tucson Swales, the Desert has it's own beauty, and at least you don't grow moss on everything...
Just needs a ton of shredded styrofoam to keep the foam from collapsing and to improve its insulation R value.
What about fireplaces?
Must provide a combustion air pipe. Its not a problem
I like the slip form
It's really nice
Hi I just stumbled upon your video about AirCrete building. I'm most interested in a medium-sized structure that would be 1/2 buried in the ground, off grid, and semi-domed ceiling.
I never recommend placing AirCrete below grade. A berm placed on top of the ground might be ok. AirCrete has a low tensile strength compared to cement.
What if you add graphene fiber, glass fiber or rebar? That would increase the tensil strength. Any idea on the fiber ratios?
built in only 10 days with how many people? I built my 12x12 insulated tin shed over the weekend for less than $40...all by myself...
Bill of material please
how in the heck did you lift up that slip form? looks like all 4 forms are connected together?
One piece at a time
What is the absolute cheapest shell that can be built? And what about all the different aircrete recipes that are shown online..
I think $12 per square foot is probably as cheap as it gets. If you buy bulk cement you might get it down as low as $9 per square foot for a shell.
Great content.
Do you a have a book and a video.
There is an AirCrete student PDF manual, free playlist here, two video courses, and workshops
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Yes !!!
Can you partially bury these structures? Does that require different finishing?
In days of old....A retention wall, and a basement wall, are both sent to the lab for "compression" tests. So, it must be able to handle N psi. Your air crete, will certainly fail the psi test (1). Also, say, lets dumb it down, say a piece of wall, 1 pound can hold back .99 pounds of dirt. But, you air crete is lighter. ouch. (2) Now, aircrete might add a weird tensile strain, as the wall needs to be burried 4' if it's burried a foot. So, the wall can be riding up, or bending over. Either way, you got tensile force, but also a decreased tensile strength from the air crete. (3). I'm not saying, that's it, it's the end. These are the problems you must solve. Perhaps for a basement wall, you can sandwich the air crete, in between two thick layers of regular concrete. ? who knows. Or perhaps do a burm and put rock around your structure. But, you still need good drainage, and the water needs somewhere to go. and remember...concrete makes a horrible rope. But, lots of these solutions are more expensive then building a thicker solid concrete wall. Really high concrete walls, are often not one solid wall, but a couple of walls, either running perpendicular to your one wall, or parallel, with a special fill between them. All that being said, I was taken to see a tire wall, that was about 80 years old, and 3 stories high. Holy smokes. Not holding back the water, really has advantages. But, good luck getting a permit for that today.
I would generally not bury aircrete under-grade. It would require at the very least a pharaoh cement shell to withstand the weights of the soils and moisture.
How thick a shell for that?
very cool info...
I would love to learn more I have land
It's scattered around my channel, but all the info is free
Why does your door open right up to the wall?
Normal door, but opening outward because of the small size
Thank you for sharing such valuable information. I do hope it is me who gets to win some. 😁
how much does it cost to get all the tools required?
A basic foam machine will cost about $170 and the Air Compressor rated at 4 CFM @ 90 PSI about $300. Forms can cost $400 and upwards depending on size and materials used. Slip forms save money on form materials. Depending on if you build a large house a forms all the way around or just a small section to build a little at a time can greatly affect the price of forms. Making bricks could save some cost on forms, but increases the work. Drills and other tools could run another $200
For the algorithm and the contest.
I would love to take the course! I'm hoping to build a hobbit style house soon but I'm worried about getting the mixture right. Ive seen people try on videos and end up with a crumbling mess. I'm worried aircrete may not be right for me because I want to be able to partially backfill the house. I'd love to win the introductory course :D
We do have video coures. I do not recommend using AirCrete below grade (ground level) unless supported by ferrocement.
Video courses:
tinygiantlife.biz/aircrete-video-training/off-grid-aircrete-round-tiny-house-step-by-step/
tinygiantlife.biz/build-your-own-aircrete-home/
Hands-on event:
tinygiantlife.biz/2021/02/14/aircrete-school-hands-on-training-workshops/
Hmmm, I'd love to invest in a class. I'm just wondering if I can get the drexel, fabric & even the concrete recommended in Africa. Or something I'd have to ship over?
It's usually possible to find workable materials If you can't find the fabric then it's entirely possible to use reinforcing fibers these can be natural or synthetic. Drexel might not be available in shipping is expensive however you can use sodium Laura sulfate from powdered bags or some form of commercial dish soap.
Shampoo retains foam much longer as the crete sets up.
You have really caught My attention. Can I purchase a hard cover book , from you ?.
Only a pdf is available, I could perhaps have Amazon print on demand make physical books available..
Do you have workshops this year?
Yes The next workshop is April 5. There will be one or two more events all of which will be listed here:
tinygiantlife.biz/2020/11/15/aircrete-school-hands-on-training-workshops/
Has anyone done a second floor building yet?
yes
Fascinating.
Excellent!