Tire Bale homes

**hagar** · 19-03-2010, 03:07 AM

OK, so who says you can't live in a home that is elegant but not pretentious--made of 170 tire bales or 17,000 tires and a whole bunch of recyclables? We kept out from our local landfill over 190 TONS of waste.

Google us "hagar tire bale house" to see our 3 year adventurous project.
Check out the flicker stream (same search in Flicker) to see the construction progress.
Read Leonard Jones, P.E. pdf file on using tire bales for structures (search for "leonard jones tire bale" in Google to find the pdf file)

Wanna build a home of tire bales? Nearly anyone can, nearly anywhere---with some sound engineering help.
Check out the FAQ (Google "tirehousefaq")
Mikey (owner of the FAQ) helped us design our tire bale home.

Don't even think of asking if the house smells of tires...........NO. You can't smell tires through the thickness of the concrete.
NO it can't burn...the tires are embedded in concrete, so NO OXYGEN, NO FIRE.
Our burn study proved that we have a less than 6% chance of burning.
As for toxins, we didn't go with paint on the walls or floor coverings. We chose clay for the walls and since our home is a thermal mass--meaning it heats and cools itself, our colored concrete floor is all we need.

Can you build a tire bale home in Thailand? Of course you can. You will have to make allowances for the humidity. Our tire bale home holds above 35% humidity even here in semi-arid Colorado. Our plants and our skin LOVE that.

Not much will move these houses since each of the tire bales weigh a ton (2,000 lbs), and then there is the concrete or stucco or moisture barrier on earth back filled walls that covers the bales.

Wonder how a tire bale house would withstand a 20-30 foot tsunami or a magnitude 8.0 earthquake? Now, that's a good reason to build a tire bale house in Thailand. A good test!

Why keep NOT using used tires?!!! Use bales of used tires to build houses!
Well, that's my opinion. FWIW.

**JoGeAr** · 19-03-2010, 06:37 AM

^ That's pretty impressive !! Jon & Laura Hagar's Tire Bale House Project

**mordred** · 20-03-2010, 12:07 AM

I recently visited a home made of tire bales in Tennessee. We have four seasons here. During the winter months we get down in the single digits F. from time to time with quite a bit of rain thrown in, and in the summers in the mid 90's F with high humidity. The rest of the year the weather is mild. The homeowner said he felt that energy costs were lower due to the thickness of the walls and have had no problems with leaking or pests. He told me that he wished he had put more thought into wiring the house for electrical or low voltage wiring. Adding outlets meant cutting hole in the concrete and putting conduit in through the cap to attic access. The wall thickness seemed odd, but the layout of the house was pretty nice.

**Old Monkey** · 28-03-2010, 01:36 PM

I built straw bales houses in France and in Canada thirty years ago, this was the easiest, cheapest, most insulated and fire proof way of building. I tried many other ways, none better.
Can you find straw bales in Thailand?

**Marmite the Dog** · 28-03-2010, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Can you find straw bales in Thailand?

Kind of, but they're not dense enough for building. Also, I think the humidity is too high here and it would cause the straw to rot.

**JimGagnepain** · 19-06-2015, 11:23 PM

Hagar,
You are the first to build a Shealey-designed tire-bale house. Years ago, I followed your progress. We have since built one, and I would never live a conventional house again. This is an entirely new definition to "quality of living" - the views, the heating and cooling without forced air, the extreme quiet...

I also live in Colorado, in the Colorado Springs area. Earthships, the father to the bermed tirebale home, exist in every state in the US, and most countries in the world. You'll seldom see them for sale, unless they were poorly constructed, because the owners never want to move out!

I've posted pictures in an album under my name, with key word "TireBaleHome"..

**snakeeyes** · 19-06-2015, 11:56 PM

TireBaleHomes

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ti...M&ved=0CCMQsAQ

**crepitas** · 20-06-2015, 08:18 AM

Then there are always beer bottles...indicates some very skilled Thais methinks...

**Mozzbie47** · 20-06-2015, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by mordred

Anyone have information or build a home in Thailand out of tire bales or rammed-earth-tire-walls as seen here:

There's a couple of threads about all that. Do a search you lazy git.

With respect Marmite, I concider those who ask question on TD to be what make this forum what it is, if you were to take all the question asked out, there wouldn't be much left.

**VocalNeal** · 20-06-2015, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Spin

I can just imagine the conversation..

farang: Honey I'm going to build the walls with old car tyres.
mai farang: farang bah, im go away from you now, goodbye.

This is what will happen in Thailand.

When reading old threads, never bring a spade with you so you can't dig them out.

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