Its been 6 months since I did my last video, which happened to be an earth tube update. So here is another one. This time you get to see the winter performance (technically Dec 7th isn't winter, but it is cold). As an update, I'd say the house is performing well thermally, especially since the soil isn't even over the middle section of the house yet. We moved in about 3 weeks ago and are getting used to life in the new place. We are very busy fixing up our old house for sale while also living in semi-stalled-construction with boxes of our stuff stacked all around, but this too shall pass. For more detail than that, you can find photos and weekly updates at https://www.facebook.com/HomeintheEarth These sorts of walk thru videos are pretty easy to make (I filmed this one at lunch and did production in a couple evening hours), but time lapse videos always take me many many hours. In other words, you might get another walk thru before I have time for another time lapse step ;) For this video, the eagle-eyed among you may notice that zone 2 heat is on during the first mechanical room clip. This is because my actual first clip didn't take (I had it set to photo instead of video). I figured it out and re-filmed it after the other clips, but forgot to turn off the heat first and didn't even notice until I was editing ;) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplDGQwVu8A

Here is a walk thru of the home in the earth project, as it looked on Saturday morning. Yes, due to popular demand, we are skipping forward a year, but then I'll return you to the past for the next timelapse ;) For those of you who are new to this whole thing, this is an earth sheltered home build. I have managed to get far enough to bury the two ends of the house, but have not yet had time to put a roof on the middle... Mostly, this strange sequencing was to try and make the neighbors happy (or at least not storming the place with pitchforks and torches). At this pace, we have at least another couple years of construction. For more information, you can check out our website, www.homeintheearth.com or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HomeintheEarth/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQQmRbr_R5E

The core of my earth sheltered umbrella house are the 5000 lb precast concrete ribs... The quotes I got for casting them averaged $80,000. So, I made the forms myself for a couple hundred. Here is the process. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5DgZHQLLI

In this segment, we mark and place the front columns and the curved Ibeams that form the framework for the entry and green house sections. More detail can be found on http://www.homeintheearth.com/2016/04/28/front-steel-columns/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I_Qekrj7oI