A Man a Plan a. . . . . . . . Garden Building

We're running out of space, so we are building a garden room.

With:

• nearly no budget
• nearly no experience

But, I have downloaded Google SketchUp, made a model, so that’s good.

We’ll be “earthbag” building and I’ll be documenting it under the EarthBag tag. (This is the 1st post)

So far we’ve:

• Found out about Earthbag Building on Instructables
• Checked if we need planning permission (we don’t if we keep it under 2.5m high and less than 50% of the land.
• Bought the Earthbag Building Guide by Owen Geiger.
• Mapped the garden (Ivy and Eric are on summer holidays)
• Done the basic plan (above)
• Worked out (got from sketchup) Approx wall area (60m²) and length (32m) and reckon we’ll need:
  • 1100 bags
  • 1200m barbed wire
• However as we don’t yet know for sure how big the bags will make up to so we: Ordered 500 [bags](http://www.packability.co.uk/packaging/405/woven_polypropylene_sacks.html\ “Bags)