A step by step on how to make bottle bricks to use in the walls of your Earthship. Bottle bricks permit light to shine by way of a wall, and color the light the color of the glass used in the brick.
Video Rating: four / five
A step by step on how to make bottle bricks to use in the walls of your Earthship. Bottle bricks permit light to shine by way of a wall, and color the light the color of the glass used in the brick.
Video Rating: four / five
I would have sed a full face shield and glasses, I would be leary of like kick back. Great info on how to cut glass bottles!
Before I cut my bottles, I score the bottle all the way around and I get fewer broken bottles.
And here’s a novel idea I came up with: on the bottom half of the inside of the bottle brick, I put a sheet of mylar inside. This allows the brick to reflect more light.
Charlie the earthship builder in Hawaii
@ricglos Jackass. The tools are all being run off solar generated power. /watch?v=67_4Rrq4kVg&context=C3fdcd68ADOEgsToPDskJF6aAxhvDz4SdADLVkzWiu
Just stop pretending you know what you’re talking about and learn something instead.
I love ductape!
@ricglos do you think all electricity has to come from the grid?
OFF WHAT GRID, is the saw off the grid,,,dont think so BUT if you want real bricks, then fill each one with mud before taping them, that will make for structural integrity and make your whole project worthwile. off the grid HAHA HAHA HAHA
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Congratulations on making a very nice, well thought out, and clear instructional.
Do you use the piece of the bottle thats left over ?
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@adgreen007 yes, you cannot see anything through them really
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@GreensongOakheart the only time i’ve ever seen a bottle break in a wall is when it a person broke it by accident. i’ve seen entire walls of cracked and crumbing can wall cement mortar with all the bottles intact.
@GreensongOakheart losing strength? The bottles won’t carry strength when the concrete is dry. I made stairs out of bottle walls. I was worried that a nail under a wood stair was touching the bottle would crack a bottle under pressure when I walked on it. The concrete is so hard and permanent, that probably no bottles will break at all. Even if it did crack, maybe it would crack in a creative way or you could stuff it or cover it with bottle caps or something.
@adgreen007 Where are bottle walls? on the sides of the greenhouse near the doors or internal divider walls or at the top of the tire walls under the roof. If it’s an external wall, you need insulation in the middle, so you can’t see through insulation. That is just for decorative purposes above doorways.
Do you know how much strength you lose by cutting the bottles like that? Have any of your bottle bricks ever broken inside the wall? If so how do you replace them??
Thanks for the video and very good one.
@adgreen007 For sure. There is too much distortion to be able to see anything through the bottles so you don’t have to add anything.
Has anyone tried to use clear bottles in a privacy wall? Would you need to add a textured glass layer inbetween the bottles for extra privacy?