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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 28 May \ on: How literally do I stack sats building a house DIY
is the choice to build with sandbags because of lack of ability to get mortar and bricks or for some other reason?
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37 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 28 May
  1. Main reason is that I want to use what I have on-site: dirt, rocks, wood. Our ancestors built houses like that for centuries. I even see around on those mountains cabins and terracing levels and paths built with rocks and dirt. Amazing hard work they've done hundreds of years ago and that work is still in place !
  2. Yes, is hard to bring mortar and bricks there. The shortest trails through forest until a near forestall road (really bad and hard accessible road) is around 1km on a steep rocky trail. I barely carried some materials (wooden plates from pallets and some chairs and tables, mattresses etc). No way I will carry construction materials like bricks ! LOL I have plenty of rocks that I could use them. fuck bricks. When you start building a house, you must adapt to the environment not to what youtube video you watch.
  3. Sandbags are very good as isolation level and on-site material. Also the place I choose to build the house was a small hill, that I dug up the dirt and rocks (see the 3 episodes described on substack) and the only best way was to use earthbags for the walls.
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