Mud Bricks - homemade

[JimSiam]

Does anyone have any experience with using mud bricks in Thailand for building, the homemade type.

[JDGRUEN]

If you google earth blocks in Thailand and separately adobe building in Thailand and separately Cinva ram - earth block ... you will find what you want.

[casualbiker]

Prasern bricks. The interlock kind are widely available.

http://www.kthaicon.com/eblock.html

[JimSiam]

Found an interesting pdf on an ozzie site in to how to make them, I am looking more for the style from St Andrews Melbourne, this will do perfectly, I will post progress as we go

YOURHOME-3-Materials-11-MudBrick-(4Dec13).pdf

[JDGRUEN]

Adobe - mud brick works best in dry environment. In a wet environment such as Thailand one should really study exactly what mixture works and how you may have to clad the outside, etc.

I think it is a great idea ... there are adobe buildings in Thailand - even an adobe group of some sort... But if you want to study other types of materials -- google alternate building materials, you will find - earth bag, ferrocement, papercrete which does not work very well at all in a wet environment, cob construction - the list is long...

Good Luck, I like entertaining different ideas... currently I am putting together a Solar Water Heater... made of simple materials... I'll publish something here on TVF - if it works - 555

[JimSiam]

I was thinking of kiln baking them to make them a bit more durable, possibly adding something like a waterproofing agent