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Polypropylene sacks |
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Couldn’t find any specialist earth bag builders in the UK, or any specialist suppliers of bags or other equipment, but you can google ‘woven polypropylene sacks (or bags)’ and you’ll find plenty of suppliers – you can just compare prices; here are a few to start you off | |
Davpak | handy table with sizes and prices |
Dickson | reduced prices for larger quantities |
LPK Packaging | don’t list prices – have to contact them |
Packability | small range, but list prices |
Information |
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Build Simple | series of downloadable pdf booklets on aspects of earthbag construction |
Cal-Earth | Californian site with lots of earth bag building info |
Dream Green Homes | large range of building plans for sale that employ earthbags |
EarthbagBuilding.com | US site, biggest earth-bag building resource on the web – sharing information and promoting earth bag building, with tons of articles, how-to guides etc. |
Earthbag House Plans | small, sustainable, affordable earthbag house plans |
Earthbagstructures.com | earthbag solutions for disaster-prone regions |
Earth Hands & Houses | Polish site with info in English on earth building, including earth bag building |
Emergency Sandbag Shelter (pdf) | pdf guide to building quick and easy earth/sandbag emergency shelter, from Cal-Earth |
GreenHomeBuilding.com | another US site, and another great earth bag building resource |
Green Prophet | woman builds earth bag, off-grid home in Turkey for $3700 |
Gypsy Farm | another log of the building of a (hybrid) earth bag house in the US |
How Stuff Works | how earth bag homes work |
Instructables | how to build an earthbag dome |
Mother Earth News | introductory article on earth bag building |
Mother Earth News | low-cost, multi-purpose earthbag building |
the Mud | very rough guide to building an earthbag house |
Network Earth | Joseph Kennedy: building with earthbags |
Network Earth | Kaki Hunter & Donni Kiffmeyer: the honey house |
Patti Stouter | soil tests for earthbags |
Patti Stouter | more documents |
Precision Structural Engineering Inc. | useful information and articles |
Rob Wainwright | building an earth bag dome (pdf) |
YouTube | timelapse footage of an earth bag house being built |
YouTube | earthbag natural building: series of useful videos |
Wikipedia | entry for earthbag construction |
Wikipedia | entry for earthbag architect Nader Khalili |