tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659063275888073304.post3088641742225388686..comments2024-01-27T21:59:34.944-08:00Comments on Chronicles of a humpy dweller: Eco bricks; Making use of rubbishAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16182408012625352004noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659063275888073304.post-24454521333496777182013-10-15T13:27:43.735-07:002013-10-15T13:27:43.735-07:00Hi Donna, great to hear from you.
The council does...Hi Donna, great to hear from you.<br />The council does have to approve a permanent toilet and they have guidelines for .sometime use' toilets too (which is what ours is supposed to be. The method for building with the bottles uses mud as a mortar and a render over the bottles so using them in a wall is possible. There are actually two methods for using them; one is as bricks, lying on their sides, to make a tick, load bearing wall and the other is to encase them in chicken wire, standing up, to create a thin infill wall which is then rendered over. Both look pretty good, and use up a lot of stuff that would otherwise be landfill or part of the trash vortex in the Pacific ocean.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182408012625352004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659063275888073304.post-65050129380230760342013-10-15T13:21:39.986-07:002013-10-15T13:21:39.986-07:00It will be very interesting to see what I do with ...It will be very interesting to see what I do with them (as I still have no real plan). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182408012625352004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659063275888073304.post-81511863387636971152013-10-15T13:20:23.222-07:002013-10-15T13:20:23.222-07:00A bottle fence sounds great; I would have to cover...A bottle fence sounds great; I would have to cover it over with something though, the bottles just provide the bulk material. I like to think of using my own rubbish as taking responsibility for myself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182408012625352004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659063275888073304.post-8077482966384859512013-10-15T01:08:14.190-07:002013-10-15T01:08:14.190-07:00Go for it Jude. Do you have to get the council to ...Go for it Jude. Do you have to get the council to approve your dunny? They haven't worried about what dunny you are using up till now... At some point in my mudding journey it was suggested you could put empty plastic bottles inside mud walls to reduce the amount of mud you have to make and they assist with insulation. So even if you don't use them on their own to build your dunny another option is to build them into mud walls. Whatever works out the easiest when the time comes I guess. D xDonna Byerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350934684162231035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659063275888073304.post-79806336258799897392013-10-12T23:25:20.325-07:002013-10-12T23:25:20.325-07:00Not too crazy! Great to see someone thinking about...Not too crazy! Great to see someone thinking about how much rubbish they generate and how to use it constructively. I'll be interested to see what you end up doing with them. Jac Calverthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08849727932376667912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659063275888073304.post-40857470182150525702013-10-12T20:58:58.750-07:002013-10-12T20:58:58.750-07:00This is brilliant, Jude.
Garbage disposal isn...This is brilliant, Jude. <br /><br />Garbage disposal isn't something I have given much thought to with my project. But it will be something that needs to be addressed - none of the land I am looking at enjoys a waste collection service. This is a really creative way of 'getting rid' of stuff that would otherwise sit in landfill. <br /><br />I am not sure how you would go with council but why not use these bricks for something else? Perhaps one of those neat bottle brick fences that the hippies seem to like building? :PPavel - Desirable Worldhttp://www.desirableworld.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com