Sandbag building offers you the opportunity to build an energy-efficient home – faster, inexpensively and with greater flexibility.
Sand has been the most widely used construction material for the last 10 000 years. After 20 years in the Western Cape, sandbag building is now available in KwaZulu-Natal, offering you the opportunity to build a home that is healthier – free of mould, dampness, condensation and cold.
The combination of sandbags and a light beam structure can be seen as a modified timber frame house. Once the roof is in place and the building is plastered, the structure looks and feels like a plastered brick structure. Any room size or floor-to-ceiling height can be achieved. This flexibility is just one of the many advantages that makes this building technology perfectly suited to any project.
Significantly, the cost is far less than conventional building and build time is halved. For example, an average three-bedroom 150 sq metre simplex could be completed in one month at an all-inclusive cost of R3 300/sq metre.
Even more impressive is the structure itself, which is eco-friendly and superior to a conventional brick wall in many ways. A sandbag structure offers a lot more mass and is, therefore, impervious to the weather, eradicating waterproofing issues. It is acoustically superior to a standard structure and offers enormous thermal benefits, meaning you’ll feel warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
If you are planning to build a new home, take advantage of the new technology available to make your life a lot more comfortable, quiet and secure.
This use of affordable materials has been proven over and over again, and the original budget pays for itself in reduced energy and thermal costs. Plus, the energy-efficient home you build today will earn you higher resale value as more and more potential buyers look for homes with lower electricity demand. You can’t miss that tangible feeling of solid quality that says: “This is a home worth living in!”
Ambidex Homes save you energy, save you money and are healthier for you to live in. Help towards creating a healthier future by investing in an energy-conscious and thermally efficient home today.
We’d love to talk to you about how our products can help you improve the way that you live in your home, so give us a call.
To find out more, contact Andy Strydom on 083 445 5123 or email ecobuild@tiscali.co.za, or visit www.ecobuilders.co.za
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This is a great picture all the other sites I have looked at have said low cost which sometimes is portrayed as cheap, ugly, nasty, the wrong side of the railway track if you know what I mean. I like the fact that homes can look great. Who is the contact in the western cape. Can this type of building be done as an extention on a brick home? I would like to consider building similar in a fairly upmarket area in the western Cape, has this been done and is it accepted by municipalities?