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Hempcrete or mycelium bricks videos?

 
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Has anyone built a house successfully with hempcrete or mycelium bricks? I've been looking into alternative building material and saw efforts to make mycelium bricks as well as an entire conference around hemp and its by products, including a panel demonstrating hempcrete and it's potential uses. Does anyone know of any videos or experiments test driving the material or making a miniature shack out of them. Of course the people selling/researching them will have their own published work on if it's viable but I'd also rather have a layman that's test driven it.
 
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Hi Aliyah,
I have not built anything with either of those materials yet... but my goal is to do so at some point in the not too distant future. My only comment would be that buying the bricks seems the fastest route. If you were thinking of making your own hempcrete bricks... I would suggest just making a monolithic structure instead. I think there is some benefit to doing it that way vs bricks, but the bricks win for speed and ease of building if they are already made.
 
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There are more and more videos on hempcrete building all the time out there. Here is a place to start looking at a few:
https://hempcretewalls.com/videos/
Where are you based? You are not likely to find any manufactured products for either hempcrete or mycelium in North America. And, neither of these are structural, so you need to figure out the structural part too. There are more and more suppliers of materials around, so you just have to figure out how to get the materials and the labour to do it. It is definitely worth it to build with hempcrete.
 
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I used Faswall to build my home, which is basically mulch-Crete.

Like most building styles, it is not without its drawbacks. But overall I’m satisfied with the process and happy with the final outcome.
 
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You are not likely to find any manufactured products for either hempcrete or mycelium in North America.



Actually the manufacturers in North America are growing and growing as well. Here are two in the US and one in Canada. Two of them are for "normal" hempcrete blocks. Just Biofiber has a plastic interior core which allows it to build like legos and has a product that is structural with that core. Very interesting.

https://hempblockusa.com/

https://www.hempitecture.com/

https://justbiofiber.com/
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