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Two Walled Tiled Hut

I built a hut with two gabbled end walls made of mud, supporting a roof of wooden poles covered with fired clay barrel tiles. The video shows the entire project which took 2 and a half months of work. It begins with the making of a thatched A-frame hut as a workshop for making tiles. The tiles were made from clay and fired in a kiln made from bricks made in previous videos. A 2x2 m hut was then built by making two walls of mud in the shape of a wall and gable. Between 1.25 and 1.6 tons of soil were used to make these walls. The roof was formed by spanning the two walls with timber that was then covered with tiles. The hut shed rain reasonably well but it remains to be seen how it will fair in the long wet season which is starting now. The main benefit of this hut is how little material is used in the walls considering that there are no side walls, significantly reducing labor and materials. It will be an experiment in how this building method works.

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  • Originally Aired December 5, 2024
  • Runtime 48 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created December 6, 2024 by
    Ago1896
  • Modified December 6, 2024 by
    Ago1896