The Finished Earthbag House Tour
After 4 summers and countless hours of labor, the earthag house was finished and moved into. Since then, it has been performing well! Here’s the video tour of the finished earthbag house.
2015 Holiday Letter
Dear Readers, As I write this, we’re in the final days of 2015. How was your year? I know for many of my loved ones, 2015 brought a large share of challenges. Difficult and costly projects, lost loved ones, health problems, hearts broken… For others, it was a year of joy and new beginnings. Weddings,…
Earthbag House FAQs
Here are some questions we’ve received about our earthbag house project, and our answers to them. We’ll add more as the questions come in. Feel free to contact us and ask anything you want! General Questions About Our Project Q: What state are you building in? Answer: We are building the earthbag house in Eastern Kansas—an…
Rainwater Cistern in Action!
I think of everything we have done so far on the earthbag house this season, seeing the rainwater cistern in action excites me the most. We completed the cistern late last year and this year one of the first things we did was fill it up to test it out! No, we can’t fill it…
Quick Earthbag House Update
It’s September 17th, 2015…I thought I’d pop in with a quick update on our earthbag house project. We’re making slow but steady progress! One of the big blocks we’ve faced this year is the lack of extra help like we had last year. We have a part-time helper and Keith’s sisters both took time off…
Earthbag House Project: Where We Left Off for the Winter
Many of my friends and readers who followed our earthbag house build last summer have asked, “So, how much did you get done before winter?” The short answer is “Lots, but not as much as we’d hoped.” In this post I’ll share our final projects up until we wrapped things up just before Thanksgiving of…
Cistern Part II
A few weeks back I wrote a post about the rainwater cistern we’re building. We’ve made a lot of progress since then! My newest video shows the cistern from dream to (almost) done! This cistern, made of earthbags like the rest of the house, will be the primary source of water for the house. We’ll…
Cistern
Cistern and Utility Room The most unusual and complex part of the earthbag house is the utility room, containing a 3,000 gallon rainwater cistern. This room is the center of operations from which the electricity, sewer and water supply will be controlled. It is also recessed into the ground with double-thick walls below ground level,…