/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Hi OP. over here in the UK we have a tv show called Grand Designs (people building crazy eco dream houses). Here's an episode where a couple build a recycled house in Brittanny. It's called a "groundhouse", where the tyres make up half of the building slotted into a hillside to conserve heat. google 'grand designs groundhouse brittanny'.

the main problem they ran into was that the tyre wall needed to be packed with earth. every.single.tyre was packed, by hand, with dirt. they finished the inside wall of the house with some sort of hippy/ medieval mud cladding.

short youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tFJa2aHgN4