Building Your Own Home with a CEB Machine
If you're serious about building a house that doesn't cost the earth—literally—then looking into a ceb machine is probably the best place to start. For those who aren't familiar with the acronym, we're talking about Compressed Earth Blocks. It's a bit of a mouthful, but the concept is actually pretty simple: you take the soil right beneath your feet, mix it with a tiny bit of stabilizer, and use a machine to squeeze it into a rock-hard brick. It's one of those technologies that feels like a "back to the basics" move, but with a modern twist that makes it actually practical for today's world. ...