An Earthbag Round House For Less Than $5,000
This is a 450 square foot earthbag house, and it was built by Morgan Caraway, as an alternative building project done on the cheap! Because of the way earthbag houses are made, and their general shape, they typically don’t have the floor space than your average house, which also contributes to their low cost going forward because it means less energy to heat and cool.
Caraway not only built this earthbag house for a very low price, they also documented the process for other people. I guess he was renting before, because he noted that after he built the strong (’round is sound’) earthbag home, he didn’t pay any rent or anything afterwards. Can you imagine no housing costs per month?
He built this earthbag in North Carolina a few years ago, after studying similar house styles, including yurts, cob homes, strawbale homes, and earthships. You can find all of these types of houses on our site, by the way!
The basics of construction: a foundation of rubble in a little trench (they used railroad ballast for rubble), then covered with sediment fabric and the pea gravel, then the wall, which is composed of 80 pound concrete sacks, and between every row of concrete sacks there’s 2 strands of barbed wire, held in place by firewood. That’s pretty much it. They then add the door and add the windows, and then the roof, built like a wheel with a column in the center of the house.
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