Electrical Rough-In Wiring of Earthship Tire Walls
Posted by Chris in Construction, Earthship, Electrical, Tires on 22. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
It has been a few days since we finished our rough-in wiring, but I thought I would post about it before I forget the details.
As mentioned previously we spent some time after getting our electrical permit figuring out what type of wire would be required for the tire walls; the electrical inspector initially wanted us … Read More →
The Front Wall … Re-Evaluating our Choices
Posted by Chris in Can walls, Construction, Earthship, Front Wall, Tires on 29. Aug, 2010 | 4 Comments
With the roof mostly done, we have started thinking about finishing the greenhouse wall.
The tire work, bond beam, and basic framing for this wall is already done. So at the beginning of the week we started to size and order the 1″ insulated, double pane glass units. We identified two companies in Kamloops that supply … Read More →
Where Did All the Pop Cans Go?
Posted by Chris in Bond beam, Can walls, Construction, Earthship, Front Wall, Graywater, Tires on 22. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
We’ve been robbed!
After months of collecting pop cans we had BAGS of cans squirreled away in our storage shed. When I popped my head in the shed yesterday to admire our collection I realized most of the cans were gone and there were just a few lonely bags left …
The culprit was not very … Read More →
The Front Wall…coming down the home stretch of tires!
Posted by Chris in Construction, Earthship, Graywater, Plumbing, Tires on 13. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Construction of the front wall is proceeding quickly … we are now on our third (and hopefully final) row of tires! We have packed 75 out of a total of about 100 tires for this wall. Over the weekend the kids helped, and we moved along quickly! Everybody is tired, and I think the kids … Read More →
Filling tires for the front wall of the earthship
Posted by Chris in Construction, Earthship, Front Wall, Tires on 09. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
I spent the morning figuring out what needed to go out through the front wall of our building; pipes for the sewage system (required by the building code) and overflow pipes for the planters. We have also elected to put water and electrical lines through the front wall so that down the road … Read More →
Reflections on our tire press
Posted by Chris in Construction, Earthship, Tires on 13. Jan, 2010 | 7 Comments
We’ve been getting emailed questions about our tire press, so I thought I would attempt to recap our experiences with it.
As described in an earlier posting we built the press out of materials we had on hand. The press design is quite simple. The unit consists of:
a stubby hydraulic cylinder,
two rounded steel plates welded at … Read More →
