How much does it cost?
How do I frame the roof?
Are they /diy/ approved?
Can I do it?

>>2920814 (OP)
It's a reddit meme, just work a normal job until you have enough money to afford cheap bricks and polystyrene.

>>2920816
I can't I'm a TI
Had to get a new car cause they ran a four way and totaled me and I also need surgery now. I'm using the injury payout and selling my house to buy land and want to coast on the savings as long as possible while I build a website.
I've already been collecting materials for years and have everything except the tires and the roof.
If I rent an excavator and cut out the foundation and do the driveway and the leech field I would save a ton of money on labor which in turn will be spent on permits, well, septic, etc.
I might have a lot of money but I'm prepared to get jewed.

they are gay as fuck and not really practical unless you have an army of smelly hippy slaves willing to work for free for a year and youre fine with tires offgassing into your lungs for the rest of your life

>>2920935
I'll do the labor myself
I'll cover them with a wall
What's gay about a free house?
How much are you expecting me to shell out, Goldstein?

>>2920943
i mean, ok...you'll have a shitty house in 5 years then. you could just make your own out of cmu block for not much more money and it would be 100x better, but go for faggot hippy tires instead. good luck getting permits btw

>>2920816
Useless boomer shitstain, hurry up and die. Even Indians have more value than you

>>2920945
What the fuck is cmu block?
You know the tires are free
And indestructible right?
A "shitty" house?
It would last fuckin forever ova here
https://youtu.be/Zl9FTlKK1e0?si=hjFya13ES3xRcbox

>>2920948
>tires are free
I guess if making hundreds of trips in a truck is free. And really...why even use tires. Might as well stack dirt and rocks at that point. Earthships are fucking gay...be honest, you saw it on youtube and youre just easily manipulated and impressionable so you believe it's a good idea now.

>>2921147
I asked chatGPT and it said the tires are indestructible

>>2921150
i guess that's why theyre in the trash...because theyre indestructible.

>>2921160
They're in the walls

>>2920814 (OP)
>be a hippie
>bury a bunch of rubber tyres so they seep chemicals into the ground
Always seemed kind of retarded to me, but then I make the mistake of thinking hippies actually care about nature whereas clearly all they care about is getting high and fucking. Driving big dirty diesel vans around killing the planet. They are all mouth no trousers. Literally.
>>2920817
>except the tires and the roof.
Kek. top meme post. So you have some dirt.

>>2921255
I have ten windows, a ton of lumber from me mum's deck that had to be rebuilt, 14 doors and palletoids for the walls
Also: nails, screws, brackets
You name it
The tires do not seep chemicals when they're packed with Earth and plastered over here
What, do you suggest I use cob?
You know how much of a risk I take workin wit dat bahstahd?

>>2921255
>seep chemicals
unsubstantiated claim. in any case the point is to keep them out of a landfill or tire fire and turn them instead into usable walls. there are an excessive amount of used tires in the world thanks to tire companies purposefully decreasing the durability and expected lifetime of their tires (see: planned obsolescence) hippie earthship shit is just doing something useful with an insignificant number of those tires. sheesh another use is to chop the tires up into fine rubber and use them as playground mulch and you don't see the kids dying of leeched chemical brain damage, they're just fine in the fucking dirt walls of a house.

>>2921327
Boomlets are sneeding at the idea of a free house
They forced Japan to devalue their currency in the 80s so instead of filling the country with efficient, reliable vehicles that don't waste resources we're stuck with rusted out 4x4 shitbuckets everywhere that have never been off-road and the current used car market is an absolute mess.
Tons of finite resources down the drain because of their arrogance.

I want to do this but without the hippie vibe. Just a massive solid wall fortress. If I could I would build walls with a corner tower or two.

>>2921403
My layout isn't hippie
Charlemagne swam every day until extreme old age, it's good for you
Hippies aren't athletic

>>2920814 (OP)
concrete is easier to transport and is portioned out, instead of multiple tiny bags you can use forms to make one large one

>>2921471
In the mountains with ice and snow? I want my shit to last and to be warm
I vill not live in ze zogbox

>>2921150
>>2921179
Did it say the toxic substances in the tires are indestructible too or you are just fine with all those chemicals leaking into your living space making your kitchen smelling like petrol all the time?

>>2921475
It's covered with plaster artard
Nothing leeches anywhere. They're buried in the earth and not exposed to sunlight or much oxygen so they're not constantly emitting noxious gassing like they would sitting in a landfill, it's contained.

>>2921476
Of course the chemical fumes constantly leak out just like if you buried them in a landfill, if they didn't, you would have a bomb.

>>2921477
They're densely packed with Earth and plastered off they are not exposed to the elements so they don't leak hardly anything. Not enough to be toxic.

>>2921478
>They don't leak at all
>Ok, sure they leak, but only a little and its not actually toxic <--- (You) are here
>Ok, they leak and they are toxic, but only a little bit toxic, not enough to notice.
>Ok, they leak and are toxic in a way that can be incredibly harmful to children and pets, but it doesn't affect grown adults
>They constantly leak toxic fumes, don't you know you shouldn't live in a house made of toxic materials?

>>2921479
The ventilation takes care of it.
It's fine goy

>>2921480
Ok, so now you are the next rung down at the not enough to notice coping stage.

>>2921481
The mountains are cool, dry and well ventilated environments.

>>2921482
Sure it seems like you have been running your generator inside too because you think its so well ventilated.

>>2921483
Different. Generators offput toxins immediately, tires emit them slowly over time when exposed to environmental factors, sealed off them emit them so fucking slowly it's barely even measurable, any plutonium atoms will be filtered out before touching a lung
https://youtu.be/LP1uLONc9HY?si=lrq5L-4hSqVJBohp

>>2921485
>Generators offput toxins immediately, tires emit them slowly over time
Would be a great argument if you are only planning on living in there immediately rather than over time.

>>2921486
one toxic tire atom within a single decade would just be filtered outside immediately
https://youtu.be/2cyoMfpLiAI?si=vwAagm1RAK45x9g2

>>2921487
What about the billions of atoms that are actually going to be leaking every year?

>>2921488
Prove it goyim
ChudGPT says otherwise

>>2921490
You already admitted as much.
Why don't you have GPT try to prove that it only pollutes the landfill and somehow making it part of your house forces the tires to only leak 1 atom per decade instead of the normal amount.

>>2921491
Tires contain zinc (1–2% by weight), and trace amounts of lead, cadmium, and other heavy metals.

Over time, rain or snowmelt that contacts exposed tires or enters poorly sealed walls may leach these into nearby soil or water systems.

In some studies, zinc levels in water runoff from tire materials have exceeded EPA freshwater quality standards.

How to Measure It:

Soil Testing

Take baseline soil samples before construction (especially downhill or downslope from tire walls).

Repeat 1–2 years later and test for:

Zinc (Zn)

Lead (Pb)

Cadmium (Cd)

Chromium (Cr)

Tools: Contact a certified lab or use an EPA-approved home soil test kit.

Water Testing

If you're near a well, spring, or catchment system, test runoff or nearby groundwater for:

Zinc

pH levels (acidic water leaches more)

VOCs (less common, but test if tires are used inside or unsealed)

Frequency: After heavy rains or spring melt; annually otherwise.

Comparing to Standards

Compare test results to:

EPA Soil Screening Levels (SSLs)

EPA Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for drinking water

Example Risk Thresholds (EPA Standards):
Contaminant Safe Soil Level (residential) MCL (Drinking Water)
Zinc ~23,600 mg/kg (screening level) 5 mg/L (secondary standard)
Lead 400 mg/kg 0.015 mg/L
Cadmium 70 mg/kg 0.005 mg/L
Ways to Mitigate or Avoid the Risk

Use vapor barriers and drainage layers behind tire walls.

Never leave tires exposed to the open air or moisture.

Install gutters, swales, and French drains to control water flow.

Regularly inspect and maintain sealing layers (e.g., plaster or concrete).

>>2921492
Exactly nothing in there says it pollutes less just because you live in them, its says it is likely to pollute and you should check your soil regularly.

>>2921493
It pollutes nothing cause it's dry and sealed off and ventilated
You're just anti-semitic

>>2921495
Old tires pollute because the chemical bonds break down over time and toxic gas, liquids, and solids are released.

>>2921496
They break down when exposed to the environment
If they're sealed off they don't expose anything but a tiny microbe filtered off into the outside air immediately once a millennia

>>2921497
>If they're sealed off
If they are sealed off, the gas builds up until it breaks the seal, so either the seal is weak and easily breaks or it is strong and you have time bomb.

>>2921500
The ventilation removes the seal breakage possibility as it's breathablepilled and lets out a fraction of an atom once a millennia

They can work, depends on your climate.

>>2921502
>lets out a fraction of an atom once a millennia
Sure, the more you repeat the lie, the more pollution stops happening once your put the tires in your home instead of a landfill.

>>2921502
Do you not even understand that venting and being sealed are exact opposites, so its literally impossible to seal something by letting it vent because those are opposite states?

>>2921504
>>2921505
IF a microcosm of an atom slips through the seal once a century, it will get filtered out immediately

Everybody on this board is so low IQ. All critical thinking leaves their mind because of a vaguely hippy sounding name for a construction technique. If you made this exact same thread but said "the Jew fears the tire home" I guarantee half the retards in this thread talking shit would be praising you instead.

>>2920814 (OP)
Can be very high maintenance. Have humidity problems from pool and plant life in this plan. Potential off-gassing and runoff problems depending on what recycled materials you are using, like old tires.

>>2922098
Even if I lime plaster the walls and seal the pool?
https://youtu.be/vAKV8iAsnUU?si=GZW_Ad3ZA4MDuSpE

>>2920935
>tires offgassing into your lungs for the rest of your life
this is true. go into any of those gross hippyholes and you come out reeking like dirty old tires. its disgusting

>>2921479
The final step is remembering fpas.

>>2922174
Hipped

>>2922178
TIRED

>>2920814 (OP)
>>2920935
this anon is right, the ones I've seen use dirt rammed tyres ... so when you stack one tyre you need to spend an hour doing manual labour to ram in the dirt ..... just use fucking rocks, i know a farmer in wales who built a house on his land, when i saw him building it, he was just digging rocks out of the nearby hillside with a pick axe, then using them to build the house. he was 72 at the time.
the tyres shit is bullshit and unnecessary. if you want to recycle, why not use random construction rubble waste? contact builders, say you will dispose of their waste for free if they have a lot of bricks/masonry to get rid of, then use that to build your walls. they WILL take you up on that, skips are expensive now. you can also find that for free in skips if you are in the uk, i don't know what americans do or continental euros.

My question is how do they keep out water in a non-desert environment? these things are not "earth" ships, they are "hot desert dry place" ships. they would not last a second in wales. they would be horrendously damp.

Earthship communities are a sneaky way for hippies to have whites only communities without actually saying that's what they are.

>>2922428
In the mountains of Colorado they're perfect
Stones will just get destroyed by the ice
>>2922448
So it's actually based and anti-semitic then

>>2922450
>Stones will just get destroyed by the ice
nigger, what?

>>2922461
There be a reason dem kniggas didn't have no stone castles n sheit

>>2922462
because they were better carpenters and warriors than stone masons?
elaborate you fucking smelly bastard.

>>2922464
Because the snow melts and seeps into the cracks and freezes and expands and destroys the castles.
Even today everything is made of wood.
Checkmate.

>>2922471
i've never seen anyone seething so much, have a shower and get back to me.
>snow melt
why not rain? or dew?
>freezes and expands and destroys the castles.
over a time period of hundreds, if not thousands, of years. also just keep your house dry, problem solved? you know there are thousands of stone and brick buildings still standing, in the uk that are hundreds of years old, most houses are like 100 years old, i have lived in several that are older than america. I regularly pass castles more than 700 years old, they are still in pretty good condition considering they have been under siege, abandoned and left to rot in the elements for a lot of that time.
here's your wooden house when exposed to that same moisture btw.

>asks to be redpilled
>welds mouth shut and refuses to take the pill

>>2922475
>why not rain, or dew?
Because it's far more likely to snow most of the time than rain or produce dew in the dry, high altitude mountains where I'm building the bermship
>hundreds if not thousands of years
Earthship tires are indestructible
I want my family manor to last longer than that, perhaps forever.
>in the uk
I'm building the berm in Colorado which is why I referenced a wooden church in Norway in contrast to the gothic stone churches because the difference of building styles due to climate

>>2922482
the church is on a stone foundation.

>>2922482
>I want my family manor to last longer than that, perhaps forever.
if you build an earthship i can guarantee it will be bulldozed after you die for being ugly and weird.
plus you just said it is in colorado so i will decree it in my will that my money is to be spent only on buying all earth ships in colorado and bulldozing them.

>>2922483
I don't have those kinda shekels, the earthship walls will be the foundation
Furthermore the foundation isn't as exposed to the elements as the stone walls
I don't want my robo butler to be wasting time maintaining the home when it could be bulletproof

>>2922484
>low IQ extrovert didn't realize the vaxx was eugenics because we have transformed production and manual labor into an entirely self sufficient endeavor
Today I will remind them
We have to RETVRN to NATVRE with off grid homes in the wilderness or face extinction due to pollution