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Hyperadobe Earthbags: Pros, Cons, & Cost Savings (youtube.com)
2 points by bane on July 21, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Would NOT recommend. I lost an earthbag house to forest fires in 2017. I am still cleaning up plastic bags and their uv damaged shredded remains.

It is a rather stupid idea to embed 1200 plastic bags into earth.

First of all, filling them and stacking took me 1 year of work. rendering them takes ages, and depending upon the UV coating on the plastic, they burst after variously 1 month to 3 months exposure to full sun, leaving a confetti of microplastics in your soil...

A plastic bag house is a rather dumb idea. Been there. Done that.




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