I love this but we need more videos that delve into how you install electricity and how you deal with any repairs and problems when everything is buried behind the cob. Thanks.

@marcellogenovese199

3 жыл бұрын

It would be a massive pain in the ass. You put the wiring/plumbing in the walls as you build it up. The alternative route would be running conduit housing on the face of the walls, which looks industrial and probably why they didn't so that. I guess you just really need to plan ahead.

@msthing

3 жыл бұрын

exactly - maintenance question looms large

@corylannon8546

3 жыл бұрын

I would imagine you consolidate plugs/outlets to one or two heights in your design. If it were me, I would lay 2 or 3 inch electrical conduit down around the entire home in all the walls with T joints spaced for whatever i would need. Then you could snake all power/data lines through relatively easy and you can always replace cable or run new stuff down the road.

@musyoka8

3 жыл бұрын

True.

@danilles.4247

3 жыл бұрын

Check out This Cob House on youtube, his channel shows all the steps in building a cob house

Thanks so much everyone for the comments. I've really enjoyed reading through each one. Building this home has been a hard, amazing, crazy adventure for Tonya and I.

@footballfactory8797

3 жыл бұрын

How much would a cob house like this cost? It’s amazing :)

@iamaku09

3 жыл бұрын

you did an amazing job. well done

@arialblack87

3 жыл бұрын

I love the whole house, but that floor! It is absolutely stunning! How durable and easy/hard to maintain is it?

@rahelapuscas8518

3 жыл бұрын

How much did it cost to build the house?

@Pilot333

2 жыл бұрын

And blessings to the birth of the new one coming.

we just finished building a cob and stone house on our animal sanctuary in Tenerife. It was a 47-day project (with some breaks) and took 2-5 volunteers working on it. Completely sustainable, very good insulated.

I'm not usually a fan of the raw, unfinished look of cob homes, but THIS is absolutely GORGEOUS. Not just the decor, but the actual design of the home interior itself is beautiful.

That rammed earth fireplace is a work of art.

What is the most interesting to me is that bio septic system! That is worth a whole video on it’s own.

@justalora2896

3 жыл бұрын

100% agree!!!

@trades9943

3 жыл бұрын

There is a plethora of literature on it. If you access to a university library that's best

@BigBirdy100

3 жыл бұрын

Mosquitoes

@susanfreeman5340

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigBirdy100 small fish, humming birds & frogs take care of skeeters.

This is one of the best cob house design I've seen on KZread, it surely showcased the potential of cob as a future design material. Thanks so much!

I love seeing people take alternative building and make it into something to show people it can be used for a more standard style of architecture instead of just tiny homes or something more niche

@kevinwells4986

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. I love seeing the tiny homes videos. This is also so relevant to our future though as well. Personally I'd like living in this structure more than a tiny home, but at this point I'd probably take about anything... lol. Reaching retirement age very quickly. But I love this channel, and this was such a great video.

@ljubomir021

3 жыл бұрын

For me tiny homes are fine until there are kids. I have a small child and i couldnt see it happening even with best organisation of space. This looks like a couzy solution for family od 3, even 4

@soaruk3697

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinwells4986 I just love it when people say 800ft square is a 'tiny' home - having lived in houses of that size most of my life in the UK and Europe - one assume you are from the USA?

@kevinwells4986

3 жыл бұрын

@ Soar UK - I know your point S.UK, but I don't know where I told you I was in an 800 sq ft 'cabin'. In any case I'm in an 8' by 25' trailer now since the home was reflagged after the big fire here, and I've never lived in a trailer before. Since I 'started out' in Laguna Beach, in a 4 story home, you can see the progression is not working so well for me. But, I do love the efficiency of these tiny homes. BTW, I've been to Japan so many times (as my employer was there), and have many Japanese friends - it may be tight where you are, but you ought to see some of their apartments. I just hope we can all stay dry. Take care, happy covid-time.

@jameswright3972

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

This is truly one of the most beautiful homes I've seen, that wall coming into the living space is amazing

Congratulations to the couple who built this beautiful and efficient little home and CONGRATULATIONS on the upcoming birth of their baby!

Gorgeous house. The fireplace is divine, too.

All natural yet very clean modern looking. Well done.

This is the MOST beautiful cob home I’ve seen! I would hire this woman to design mine if I could.

WOW!!!! That’s an incredible cob house! I can’t believe they built that with sand and clay. Congrats Tonya and Leon 👍👍👍

@auhn4804

3 жыл бұрын

This is very easy to built

This is one of my favorite cobs homes. It is so beautiful.

Oh my goodness! What an impressively smart design. This home is absolutely gorgeous and has such a peaceful flow. You can tell how well thought out the design is. Love this home 😍

I love this beautiful cob house! The design is elegant and peaceful, and I really like a design plan with no wasted space, on the small side, yet not tiny. Love the curved walls, bedroom designs, and kitchen too.

Beautiful home ! Twin boys and she looks like she carrying twins again wow ! God Bless you and you beautiful family

Wow!!!!!I never knew an off grid house could be so beautiful!!!

Wow, that is an awesome home. I love that design, very creative. The constructive wetlands is really thinking outside the box! 🏠 🏡

The house was so gorgeous that i didn't expect cob house to be like this. Seriously looks like marble touch some part I want one too

The inside is unexpectedly luxurious.

Amazing home! I’d love to live in this home. I love how it’s all off grid and eco friendly! Brilliant 👍

I love this house, and especially the rammed earth fireplace; so beautiful!

This house is beautiful! My dream. I love the kitchen and how modern it is and open. The fireplace is gorgeous. Bathroom sink blending into a bench is amazing.

You could forget that cob is involved and win an Architectural home building award!!

This is my dream home! How did you know! Great job guys!

Such a beautiful building that will last hundreds of years, you have created! How wonderful.

What a beautiful house! Love the curved walls and the living room.

...MUST push pause halfway to say I love the attention to detail/design so far...truly talented couple with a vision for a blissful space...

Beautiful design, especially including the off-grid components. That rammed earth wall is stunning. A masonry stove would have been perfect for this house! Nicely done.

Need a tower , so can see the mountain in the background, love cob houses, build with earth, sand , straw and water , how natural is that, healthy building materials for certain , this is a beautiful home and beautiful location !

Truly stunning house. Loved the surrounding areas.

Beautiful home- I think I would need more solar though.

@joewoodchuck3824

3 жыл бұрын

The 1 kw rating is probably the panel rating. Battery storage can be any size you want for heavier loads. The caveat being that the larger the battery storage, the longer it takes to charge when depleted.

@marthahawkinson-michau9611

3 жыл бұрын

They look like they’ve reduced their power needs to the point where they mostly are using solar power for lighting and the refrigerator. They did mention both a propane stove and passive solar design. I would wager that the water heater is probably also propane.

Beautiful home. I live in New Mexico (think Earthships) so cob, or Adobe, is a very common way of building out here. I love the fireplace wall, very creative.

Thanks Danielle for sharing this couple story. We love their design. 👍👍❤

@ExploringAlternatives

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cathy :) :)

What an amazing structure for showcasing Green Building ideas and applications! This building is also a labor of love, so it has an appeal on various fronts, and it is successful in all those aspects!! What a gorgeous building! Thank you for building it Leon and Tonya, and thanks for sharing it Mat and Danielle! Totally awesome, and totally cool! Totally.....

Creative off-grid home. The only thing I didn't care for were the curtains instead of traditional wooden closet doors and the metal counters in the kitchen . The wall behind the fireplace was really beautiful as was the stone steps leading to the front door.

I stayed in this place as an airbnb rental. Great build and location on Vancouver Island, BC. The stars are night were amazing!

Would love to learn more about the bio septic system. That is tremendously appealing. It's great to see such a small footprint for living.

So impressive! I am almost out of words! Brlliant construction using the cob I would like a lot to see a full video on construction. Let’s be realistic you have to be a good engineer and hard worker. The wall make an intense connection between human an nature and the whole set up of the place is really beautiful and inviting. Congratulations for such a respectful construction. Thanks to Exploring Alternatives for opening our mind to new concept of living.

@ExploringAlternatives

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment Jocelyne :)

@2000coco

2 жыл бұрын

@@ExploringAlternatives do they have their own channel? Love to see more of their construction journey and how they deal with issues/repairs that come up

@user-tl4wk3um4u

2 жыл бұрын

@@ExploringAlternatives clay based plsster water proofs the house?

@indiblossom

Жыл бұрын

How long did this build take start to finish?

@indiblossom

Жыл бұрын

How much did it cost to build?

I live in an old trailer (mobile home). Gonna retro/cyberpunk it up as practice for when I do my own natural home. Trailers often have that wood panel thing with those tiny black stripes. I thought about leaving a portion of the trailer untouched and make a truth window out of it 😆 Nice home, living cheap now so I can do my cobb home similar to this one!

Lovely home! I would love to live in a house like this.

Beautiful. This is the best looking off the grid house.

This gorgeous and beautifully designed from the outside to the inside. It's the perfect size for a family of 3 for example.

Absolutely Beautiful. You guys definitely did an amazingly awesome job. Great video. Pammie from Chicago Illinois

What an amazing job seeing all those details. Crazy amount of work it looks like. Can you please explain how the constructed wetland works in the winter?

I appreciate this design which is more acceptable in most urban/suburban areas. You just can't build a happy little hobbit house if all the other houses in the neighborhood are more conventional. You won't get permitted. Save the sculptural elements for inside the house, and let it look a bit more modern on the outside. I do love those sculpted houses, but I'm much more interested in urbanizing the cob house movement rather than continuing to eat up all the land for my own personal dream estate. I'd very much like more videos on alternative urban building.

Everything about this house is amazingly beautiful!

I hope viewers are understanding this is the owners RETREAT home, not their everyday life out of home. They rent out this home and use it as a teaching tool. There is a difference.

@beejereeno2

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, and what a brilliant way to have a revenue stream. The house basically paid for itself after a few years, so it's almost pure profit to rent it out for weekends/etc. (not including supplies they stock in it)

@AllisonReece

3 жыл бұрын

@@beejereeno2 Yes, exactly! Smart couple.

Beautiful natural nontoxic low carbon a true sustainable home. There many natural homes like this in the world that are over a thousand years old.

A video explaining how to do plumbing and electricity would be great

You should be proud! Fantastic job! Love the VPN lesson as well.

@robinpickelsimer7229

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

what a beautiful home you both built!

I live in a very wet area of Canada in the Eagle River Valley. It will be amazing to build this!

Super cool.... love it... wooo. Wish more places were like this.

This house is amazing!

I'm glad I discovered this channel.

Very well planned! Impressive.

Awesome and inspiring! I'm interested in learning more about your experience. I'm open to receiving updates. Thank you!

Awesome home. V Clean n spacious beautiful decor. God bless u all with good health happiness n loooooooooong life.

Absolutely stunning home! I want to do this so bad.

Lovely structure!

This is absolutely my dream house

You guys are inspiring.

Every year the weather gets worse .....I live in Norfolk VA. We had a earthquake in 2011 a small one but it difinantly got my attention ! This is what the future of housing looks like.

@32fps

3 жыл бұрын

Dunno how to tell you this, but earthquakes are not related to climate change. The earthquake in VA was just a rare but not impossible event. I lived in VA when it happened. Ironically I live in CA now and have been through numerous earthquakes. They're not worse/more abundant because of climate change, they exist because this entire state is on fault lines.

@janethastings193

3 жыл бұрын

@@32fps Matthew 24: 6&7

@janethastings193

3 жыл бұрын

@@32fps at the time maybe it was rare. We are going to have another one. To have any...means we are on a fault line....we will have another one.

This home really succeeds! Very admirable! 👍😉🇨🇦🌞🔥

Just beautiful and I believe healthy.

Super impressive place. Kudos for building better for our planet.

Beautiful!!

a good few people doing this now. Nice way to go

I'm ready to move in, what a stunning house in a gorgeous location

@auhn4804

3 жыл бұрын

Really, then may i know which type of location you like most ?

Lovely home!

Awesome place. Love that.

Wow! Just wow! 😍

Beautiful home, great job on the home.

Amazing, thanks.

Beautiful home!

Very good - but one “cob house builder” once told me - build a roof first then the rest!!! and I would do it that way too ;-)

Wonderful! Thank you!

Wow this should be the standard

Beautiful! Just love the 'hobbity' looking exterior & soothing palette. And the setting...wow...to die for!!! 👍💖🌈🇨🇦☘️

Gorgeous

Beautiful and strong. Very nice job guys❤️😌🙏😎

Love this!

Beautiful.

I've really waited for this upload. I was looking forward to new content from you.

@ExploringAlternatives

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joel, happy you enjoyed the tour :)

Best cob house I've seen 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

That is very cool!

I’m curious as to why the roof is flat, if it had been angled couldn’t you’ve gotten more solar panels? It seems like you would have trouble dispersing water also?

@66alsmith

3 жыл бұрын

The roof is designed to collect rain water, it’s mentioned early in the video

U guys are blessed enjoy

Beautifully built! Love it. Could you please share the clay sand straw water mixture ratio !! 🙏

Fantastic!!

How do you run/install the electric through cob houses

Love the house!

Finally a cob house with pictures on the walls!! Wondering if you used command hooks or there is another way to hang photos you recommend?

This is very beautiful and very creative house

Beautiful home 🏡

Gorgeous video as always!

@ExploringAlternatives

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Jen!

What a gorgeous house.l Beautifully designed! With only 2 bedrooms, it's going to get crowded when the third baby arrives...🤗😍😳

@EvelynMaya1

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like this is a rental.

@maryhart637

3 жыл бұрын

@@EvelynMaya1 After all that work?? I would never rent it out if it was my house...way too much hard labor went into it.

@BudgetCarnivore

3 жыл бұрын

@@maryhart637 they are architects right. I think this is common for them