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Stredda

Runs naked through virgin scrub
These seemed pretty clever:

Simple materials, easy to work with, quick to build. Not seeing a lot of negatives to be honest. (I'm guessing they must cost a fortune then right...? :p)
On the plus side, when your house burns down, everyone just lays around giggling. :p
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk
On the plus side, when your house burns down, everyone just lays around giggling. :p
It's fire resistant.

We looked into it for our renovation/extension.

It seems great, but as @dancaseyimages said difficult to find people and expensive. You also have to design your house with walls twice as thick or more than traditional material so you lose space in the footprint and it's harder to design. The hemp is between 25-55% with the rest being binder, lowest hemp content in walls that are structural.

We don't have the budget and I don't want to spend a year or more owner-buildering because there are no end-to-end builders doing it. There's also very little in the way of lifecycle studies compared to other materials so it's difficult to actually make the call on how much better it is environmentally than traditional building. By traditional building, I mean well designed and built stuff with a focus on energy efficiency, not the rubbish we generally build in Aus.

It's also hard to do an extension to a building with it because it's difficult to tie in properly. It think it needs a massive company to do a Tesla on the building industry to get anywhere.
 

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
I don't know where else to put this, so fuck this guy and anyone else who lives like this! I know Australian car parks are generally shit house, but...clearly has a dick for a brain and a small dick. I was almost tempted to let the on road only tyres down. I year for the day when people living in urban areas are not allowed such vehicles without a significant and special reason.

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Jabubu

let you google that for me
I don't know where else to put this, so fuck this guy and anyone else who lives like this! I know Australian car parks are generally shit house, but...clearly has a dick for a brain and a small dick. I was almost tempted to let the on road only tyres down. I year for the day when people living in urban areas are not allowed such vehicles without a significant and special reason.

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What was in front of the ute?
 

PJO

in me vL comy
I don't know where else to put this, so fuck this guy and anyone else who lives like this! I know Australian car parks are generally shit house, but...clearly has a dick for a brain and a small dick. I was almost tempted to let the on road only tyres down. I year for the day when people living in urban areas are not allowed such vehicles without a significant and special reason.

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but he may need those recovery tracks for big urban potholes
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dancaseyimages

Mountain bike pornographer
It's fire resistant.

We looked into it for our renovation/extension.

It seems great, but as @dancaseyimages said difficult to find people and expensive. You also have to design your house with walls twice as thick or more than traditional material so you lose space in the footprint and it's harder to design. The hemp is between 25-55% with the rest being binder, lowest hemp content in walls that are structural.

We don't have the budget and I don't want to spend a year or more owner-buildering because there are no end-to-end builders doing it. There's also very little in the way of lifecycle studies compared to other materials so it's difficult to actually make the call on how much better it is environmentally than traditional building. By traditional building, I mean well designed and built stuff with a focus on energy efficiency, not the rubbish we generally build in Aus.

It's also hard to do an extension to a building with it because it's difficult to tie in properly. It think it needs a massive company to do a Tesla on the building industry to get anywhere.
Sure do need an industry shake up, a couple of years ago we did the 'eco' house tour in Canberra/NSW.
Lots of building codes in Canberra especially inner city that had to be adhered to compared to NSW where arguably only 20kms away people could build things like Hay bale houses and have the compactor toilets on an inner suburb block. When I was tiling it was the same when it came to Laundrys needing a drain in NSW but not in the ACT, we did lots of flood repairs for Laundrys too which was probably a good thing for my boss as insurance work ended up being the easy weekend apprentice work at the time.

Interestingly though the people who's houses we toured were either already in construction/it was a 'demo/show' house or had family in construction or were university professors/teachers who knew the codes and used a lot of their own time to put towards the build, and a lot of the houses built were multi generational, probably a pooling of wealth, one was a fantastic build in Hackett in that one of the paths was repurposed Canberra reds (bricks, go for a few $$ when cleaned up), they had sold some to pay for a bit of the house and lived in house 1 while house 2 was being built at the back.

You can check out some of the latest ones here, they are in most states.
Sustainable House Day - Environmentally Progressive Homes in Australia

I do look forward to the future of building.
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk

dancaseyimages

Mountain bike pornographer
Yeah we went to it probably 10 years ago now, 6 stars was out of this world back then. We're using Light House (and paying a premium for it) and our 1973 original Govie will go from ~1.5 stars to 7.4.
Oh wow nice, be interested to see when it's done, fingers crossed its all smooth sailing.
We liked these guys (Strine) and 360 homes but the fluffy blocks have been crazy prices so hoping the storm is worth the wait out at this stage.
E3 Modular 2 Bedroom Home - Kambah - Strine Environments - Green Architecture, energy efficient sustainable living
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk
Oh wow nice, be interested to see when it's done, fingers crossed its all smooth sailing.
We liked these guys (Strine) and 360 homes but the fluffy blocks have been crazy prices so hoping the storm is worth the wait out at this stage.
E3 Modular 2 Bedroom Home - Kambah - Strine Environments - Green Architecture, energy efficient sustainable living
We'll finish middle to end of 2024 pending smooth sailing, definitely welcome to take a look :)

Love the idea of modular stuff, I've heard it's not always economical yet but that's turning around.

For anyone doing building a mate who is a facade engineer shared this guy and I can't get enough:

 

Flow-Rider

Burner
We'll finish middle to end of 2024 pending smooth sailing, definitely welcome to take a look :)

Love the idea of modular stuff, I've heard it's not always economical yet but that's turning around.

For anyone doing building a mate who is a facade engineer shared this guy and I can't get enough:

This bloke has builders that send him death threats, but just shows what a grubby industry it is. I built in the 2000s and had over 240 defects, reported it to the local building authority at the time, and they said if your walls aren't falling down we're basically not interested. The builder ended up fixing half of the problems with patches and the other half was under 10K so it wasn't worth the headache of engaging a lawyer and pursuing it in a court case. Not long after they built my home they bankrupted themselves.
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk
Not long after they built my home they bankrupted themselves.
We hope to avoid this by using highly reputable builders that have worked with our architects for 10+ years and built a swag of award winning renos and new homes. The architects would have ditched them long ago if they did shoddy stuff like this.

My dad is a retired (perfectionist) builder too, we'll be flying him down from FNQ at critical inpection points.
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk
Sorry @Scotty T - but did have to have a chuckle at the irony of this for your sustainability focused home. :p
The embodied energy in the remaining parts of house we are keeping will more than offset the flights, not to mention the CO2 savings for the rest of the life of the building so I'm not feeling any guilt about getting someone I trust flown in. We'll do some of it remotely too.
 

Haakon

Keeps on digging
The embodied energy in the remaining parts of house we are keeping will more than offset the flights, not to mention the CO2 savings for the rest of the life of the building so I'm not feeling any guilt about getting someone I trust flown in. We'll do some of it remotely too.
Given the state of the planet you may as well charter an A380 for him..
 
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