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RE: Be Empowered! How We Built a Storage & Solar Shed for Under $6/sq Foot | Natural Building on the Homestead
This is Awesome! I happened to notice the green agricultural net-wrap that you are wrapping your earth-bag foundation. I've attempted to find a re-use for this stuff, as it's often seen littering the roadsides around here in cattle country, as it blows off or out of pickup trucks going down the highway. I am glad to see some of it going to a good use for a change.
Yes! We got it off the side of the road, as you mention! At certain times of year it's littered all over! We needed something to hold the plaster well and it did do the trick! THank you <3
It was good to sequester that into the building as well as carpet for the rubble trench foundation.
I have attempted to use some as wall insulation while renovating a room, but I'm not convinced that it works all that well for that. Have you found any other uses for it?
Haven't found any other uses for it! But as I mentioned with the carpet, we were really tempted to put "trash" like that into the foundation. It would compress under the rocks and then just sequester into the pit. One thing you could do is fill plastic bottles with it to make plastic "bottle bricks" for building. I've seen people put trash into the bottles then stack them using them as bricks then put a cement or clay plaster on them. It's a great way to sequester trash while also getting a building material. I keep thinking I want to start saving our trash, but I guess I have a block to doing that cuz I never end up doing it...
That's a really awesome idea there. I may try something with that and do a write-up. That could make a really good article.
yes! would love to see it ;D