New Papercrete Video shows Inventor Eric patterson's 4 year old papercrete wall

Videos for People who want to Build

The Art of Slipform Stone Masonry: RENTAL ONLY Thomas Elpel
Want to build a stone house? It's easier than you might think! The Art of Slipform Stone Masonry brings to life the nuts-and-bolts of the slipforming process featured in Tom's book Living Homes.
Slipforming is the process of using forms on both sides of the wall as a guide for the stonework. The forms are filled with stone and concrete, then "slipped" up the walls to form the subsequent levels. Slipforming makes stone work easy even for the novice.
In this unique video, Thomas J. Elpel and Robert Taylor build an insulated workshop out of stone, demonstrating the building process from site excavation right through to putting the roof on and finishing the inside. Working through the month of June in Montana, they brave the rain and snow, gusting winds, searing heat and stunning rainbows to bring this project to fruition.
The video is designed as a companion to Tom's book Living Homes. The principles of design and construction are out-lined in the book, enabling the reader to create dwellings customized to their own unique situations. In this video you will see just one application of those principles, but in vivid detail from start to finish. With both the book and the video you too will be able to design and build in a way that is completely unique to your own Vision. The Art of Slipform Stone Masonry is recorded on certified quality recycled VHS tapes for an environmentally friendly video! November 2001. ISBN: 1-892784-10-6. 1 hr. 50 min.


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NEW!... Introduction to Fibercrete with Mike Mccain 90+ minutes of complete information by the inventor himself! How to make and mix papercrete, the barrel mixer construction details, and shows many simple wood forms for blocks and bricks; then pouring and pumping slurry, plus structures he built, tips, and a burn test. Papercrete plasters, roofing, panels, laying up a wall, and lots more. There is nothing like seeing Mike make this stuff to really understand the potential of papercrete mixes for ultra low cost building. Mike has an easy, comfortable way of showing fiber/papercrete to its best advantage; he made this video a couple years ago and never got around to promoting it! It shows everything you need to know about papercrete/fiber mixes but not the newest scissor mixer. Recommended as the best video to begin with. #9015...$30.00 ...Rental- $9.00... ORDER HERE

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NEW!... Building With Bags- How We Built Our Experimental earthbag/Papercrete Home. VIDEO- by kelly Hart. 90+ minutes of complete earth bag building information. Using misprinted polypropelene rice bags, and filling them with earth and pumice the Harts created a unique twin dome home, complete with solar/pv and indoor garden -ala earthship design. The video shows building methods using long and short bags, tips and tricks, materials for windows and air vents, failures and problems encountered, plastering with lime and papercrete, plus mixing papercrete in both a drum and tow mixer. Plus he covers electrical installation, plumbing, and a natural rock wall shower they built. Interviews with shirley tassencourt who built her earthbag dome after training with superadobe teacher nader khalili, and a young couple building room-by- room with bags. A poured in place adobe (earthen) floor is shown being built, as well as the Harts tamped soil/scoria (no) foundation construction, and an earth bermed north wall. Kelly offers an honest evaluation of the work, problems and joys involved in constructing an earthbag structure, and he details costs for all materials. 90 minutes, printed resource list included.#9013...$30.00.. Rental- $10.00... ORDER HERE

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Earthbag Methods and Philosophy with Nader Khalili- 60 minute outdoor interview with Nader at his cal-Earth site on why and how to build with super adobe bags. Very inspirational­ excellent overview of bag construction, and principles. No matter how poor your soil..if it can't be made into cob, or pressed into adobes it CAN be placed into earthbags for easy wall building with no tools or forms needed. Nader has built his domes in earthquake/seismically active S. California, and his house plans are approved. #9014...$30.00 ..Rental-$5.00... ORDER HERE

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2 Hour "Building with Papercrete & Paper Adobe" VIDEO Author Gordon Solberg's two hour documentary with all new information and interviews on papercrete, paper adobe and fidobe. See Mike McCain's ingenious building tools and methods, Eric Patterson's house addition and privacy walls, sean Sands operating a stock tank mixer and finish plastering his dome home, and several houses made with papercrete, including spray on and slipform techniques. Also shown are papercrete logs, mortars and plasters of this material, and wall forming tips. Narrated by Laura Solberg, this is a low tech video with some sound and light problems due to outdoor filming, but the information is invaluable! A very low cost viga roof beam method is shown, and a clever driver for running the stock tank mixer with an ordinary car, plus footage of a workshop event in building walls for the Earth Quarterly office in NM. Running time 1 hour 58 min. #1051...$35.00..Rental-$10.00... ORDER HERE

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Mike's scissor barrel mixer

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Video- Papercrete-City of the Sun (Build-A-thon) is now available. Over 60 minutes of building techniques, philosophy and on site visits, show how papercrete was used to build several homes. Interviews with Mike McCain; see his latest scissor-blade mixer in action Mixer shown in photo above) , plus Danish eco-builder Max jensen and Sean Sands discuss their application, and life philosophy, on building at such low cost. Other builders are interviewed, and their homes are shown. Much discussion on trail and error with materials such as sealers, water proofers, and methods too. #1081...$25.00...Rental-$9.00... ORDER HERE

[Note: Viewing both videos #1051 and #1081 gives you a complete up to date view on papercrete methods, and the book All About Papercrete has close up photos of the new scissor blade mixer design. order #1030...$25.00]

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A Sampler of Alternative Homes-Order # 9007 120 minutes Two solid hours packed with interviews, plus inside/outside views and construction of each type of alternative building...including the exciting new material " Fibrous Cement/Papercrete" building method. See recycled waste paper , sand and cement turned into sturdy building blocks, forms, panels, domes- for an amazing cost of under $1.00 a square foot! Other methods covered are: Strawbale-load bearing, post-beam and dome, Earthships, Cordwood, Thin Shell Concrete Dome, Adobe block (see a Cinva Ram block press in use), Rammed Earth, Earthbag/Superadobe, an Earth Sheltered Kiva, and a city bus conversion to motor home. videographers Kelly and rosana Hart have built their own earth bag guest house, which you see under construction in this video. Order # 9007... $30.00...Rental-$10.00... ORDER HERE

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Cordwood Construction- Order# 4005 (88 minutes), Basic Cordwood Masonry techniques by Rob Roy- shows choosing, debarking, drying, wood seasoning and stack wall building. Plus making mortar, tips on placement of logs, using insulation, weather defenses, foundations, pointing and tools for finishing mortal around logs. Embedding bottles and objects for beauty and artistic expression, masonry stove use, windows and doors, and more. Order: # 4005...$35.00...Rental-$10.00.. .ORDER HERE


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NEW Cordwood Homes Video available:

Cordwood Homes-presented by Rob Roy This is a great companion video for folks who want to see several completed cordwood homes inside and out. Shows round, 16-sided, stackwall corners( with special edge techniques), post and beam infill, and dozens of creative details on artful use of cordwood while building. [Shelving, bottles to admit light, clever use of wood end pieces, masonry stove designs, building small, and more] Rob Roy visits with friends and neighbors all over, who built with this technique. 70 wonderful minutes #9016...$30.00..Rental $8.00... ORDER HERE

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Tennessee Strawbale- Bill and terrin, a young Tennessee couple, show the how-to on their straw bale home from the foundation up. It started in design as a big garage for use now, with planned conversion to a home later. They explain all aspects, the problems they ran into, and detail costs, changes they'd make and more. They built a beautiful structure, and this is a charming documentary of their experience, 30+ min. #9017...$15.00... Rental $5.00... ORDER HERE

* If you choose to purchase ANY video, after viewing, the rental fee applies to purchase price.

Solar/PV Installation and Instruction -Order # 5009 (84 minutes), The Solar Powered Home by Rob Roy- thorough technical information is given here, all system requirements, hook ups, types of PV arrays, controllers, dc and ac usage. Plus interviews with ordinary people who learned to install and use their own systems and live comfortably off the grid. If they can do it, so can you, all it takes is some knowledge. Order: #5009...$29.00... ORDER HERE


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Rammed Earth- Order # 2008 A. The Renaissance of Rammed Earth with David Easton (30 minutes), offers complete construction information, and interviews with people who live in these solid walled homes. Order # 2008...$30.00... ORDER HERE


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Cob Philosophy and Methods-Order # 1007-Building with the earth (28 minutes), with ianto evans & michael Smith. A charming view of the oldest building material...earth. See a cob wall under construction, plus mixing techniques, foundations, doors, windows, bookshelves, artistic additions and more being shown. Order # 1007...$22.00...Rental-$7.00... ORDER HERE


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The Sustainable Home Tour-Order # 5008 Off the Grid Living at the kerr-cole Sustainable Living Center. 59 minutes. This delightful hour-long (low tech) video takes you on a tour with Barbara Kerr in her home, the Sustainable Living Center in Arizona. In the high desert she has experimented with and field-tested many solar designs. Many of these are shown and features explained. You see her unique solar wall oven that she built through her kitchen wall which allows effortless solar cooking from inside the home. Barbara is completely off the grid with solar photovoltaic panels providing electricity for all her needs including lighting, computer and printer, radios, small hand tools, refrigerator/freezer, and recharger for small batteries. She shows solar heating of water with recycled tanks (which gives her plenty of hot water), and growing salads in her greenhouse. Her efficient solar downdraft food dehydrator design is clearly detailed along with how to dry and preserve foods in small or large volume. With her friend and partner, Sherry Cole, they take you through the process of creating a very comfortable, livable home for very little money. 59 minutes. Order :# 5008-...$18.00.... Rental-$5.00... ORDER HERE

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