I want to build a Hyperadobe home. I have seen many YouTube videos about the process, but I want to know way more than a few videos can teach me.

Does anyone have any book suggestions? I searched eBay and Amazon and found almost nothing.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    So I had somebody interested in it ask me to look into it a while back. The people who recommended it, “Tiny Shiny Home”, were doing a web docuseries about building an “earthship” style home with dirt from the ground. When I looked through the site selling the product, Volm, and the people “recommending” it I noticed that the images on both sites matched 1:1 meaning they were the same people. They, Tiny Shiny Home, also wanted to charge people on their website for more technical construction details that they never share publicly, the videos on their youtube channel were more or less blogs talking about the time between working on the project.

    While I’m not necessarily opposed to entrepreneurship and wanting to make a hobby proffitable, the hyperadobe bags are gimmicky and much more expensive than other Polypropylene Bags which don’t come in long tube form which actually makes a lot more sense to me personally.

    So I think the Hyperadobe people are dishonest folk who target specific demographics with buzzwords and gimmicks.

    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      The Hyperadobe bags are UV coated, so you have WAY longer to build your house. The other sand bags fall apart in less than 1 year in the hot desert sun. Lots of people I talk with really regret using the little sand bags.

      I did watch a lot of tiny shiny home, but they do leave out a lot and their videos are just too long and too many to keep up. They also have workshops in person but they charge so much to go there.