Finally an update to the blog! We had a very productive summer. We managed to get all of our tires on site, two courses of tires completed, vent tubes in place, found a deal on solar panels, built an enclosed porch for our RV, added four more wicking bed gardens, built a compost and produced […]
We now run laptops, charge gadgets, charge tool batteries, use our blender and vacuum cleaner during the day with no worries! The old panels are now charging a secondary battery that is powering LED work lights for the construction site. You can read about details on the system below in the original post… This is a repeat […]
One of the challenges in laying out the first course of tires was trying to get the lengths of the back wall and wings walls to match the dimensions on our drawings. While this may not sound too difficult it turns out it is a bit tougher than you might think when you don’t have […]
Here are the latest renderings of my Virtual Earthship. For those of you seeing this series of posts for the first time, I am building an Earthship virtually to get a better understanding of the process before I start the actual work on the construction site. I am hoping that people reading these posts with […]
Welcome to our Earthship blog! After a 5 year journey we are finally on our way. We will be updating this blog frequently once we get started again in May. To the left you will see an image of an Earthship that was built in Brighton, England. This is not our exact model but we […]
Here are the renderings for the second course of tires. This is what I have learned so far… 1 – I need to set each course of tires back by 1.25” from the previous course to get the proper lean into the berm. 2- There is some play on the corner tires so I do […]
Here are the renderings for the first course of tires. This is what I have learned so far… 1 – How to layout the first course using the instructions on the planview drawing (very clear). 2- How to layout out the three tire turn. 3 – The corners on the north side of the building […]