Hello community, we continue with the saga of our little eco-build which, small as it may be, has been a great challenge of patience and perseverance. We're finally done with the roof and working on the wall structures. Though we thought we had plenty of materials, we ran out pretty quick and had to slow down our progress to stock up on more.
In a previous post you can see the first advances of the roof. Already with the OSB installed, we decided to put felt paper as a water insulator, it is waterproof and also helps against strong winds. It was placed across the whole roof, along with the zinc plates.
While we installed the roof it started raining on us so we were able to know immediately that it had been properly installed since no water came through.
Roof installed, already sheltered from the rains that are already in this area.
Now we start with our walls. So far we have two techniques used: diagonal quinchas for the corner walls, pallets and horizontal sticks for the middle walls. Both are being filled with plastic bottles, glass and also beer cans.
This is where we realized that a lot of space is saved, but that a large amount of bottles must be used, so we had to ask for help from the community of the city where we are: Coyhaique. Many people are collecting to recycle, and right now, for some unknown reason, they have removed the eco-spots to where you can drop off recycle material. So it was something to ask for on facebook and many people already have their bottles saved for us.
We had the visit of our friend Meli that day who also helped us out.
This is where we get the most sunlight so the upper part of the walls will have a lot of glass and hopefully windows if we can recycle some that fit the space.
A look from outside of how that wall is coming along.
We're thinking we might wrap the structure with some plastic and set up a stove inside so that we don't go too cold since temperatures are dropping quickly. If this works we could even bring a tent and start staying here to be more connected with the process. We can begin mixing the mud and start covering inside out.
We also recycled some boards with glued penvit that will offer insulation:
At this point, we went back to looking for willow sticks, cutting them, and stripping off the bark. It is a slow job, so we will look for an opportunity to recycle wood cuttings. We hope things go well for us, otherwise we will continue cutting on these sides.
Another wall, the same mess, which increases with the days haha 馃槀, we'll give ourselves some time to organize soon... yeah, sometime soon.
To alternate the jobs we've also begin planning out the place where we will be mixing the mud with sand and straw. Once we have all the wall structures we will begin this task which might be long but it is also very fun and rewarding.
That's all for this update Hivers, hope you like what you see and get something from it. If you have any questions/tips/suggestions please let us know in the comments. Till next time!
