Recycled 5 Gallon Bucket Wall

Step 9 Finished

If we ever finish this project I'll post a few more pictures but at the moment we need 5000 more buckets. Below are the portions of wall that are almost finished. This property has a very old adobe house on it that we will be adding to with strawbales. The final stucco color of the house will be matched on the wall.
You're welcome to look over our project website (www.recycledbucketwall.com).

Comments

[bornon511]

bucket house would be cool.

[markbyounger]

Using the bucket stacks as a house wall has been discussed... but is a much larger proposition (esp. from a engineering and permit standpoint). My initial idea is to build a wooden framework using existing building practices and infill with the buckets. I read that this was how a lot of the early strawbale houses avoided code issues, but that doesn't really use the buckets to best advantage.

[Lokisgodhi]

I was thinking a bucket house would be nice too.

You'd probably have to go with poured concrete footings to put the buckets on. Also, you'd probably want to fill the buckets with some sort of insulation, like you'd do with the spaces between in cord wood masonry  construction.

[storeyc]

Nice work, looks like a big project. I would have been tempted to just erect the bucket stacks and then grow vines over them.

[Lokisgodhi]

I'd think that'd be grounds for justifiable homicide by your spouse or neighbors in most jurisdictions. ;-)

Storeyc wrote:

"I would have been tempted to just erect the bucket stacks and then grow vines over them." 

[ReverendSapp]

WOW, You should change your first pic. The first couple times I saw this I thought I would hate to live next to you, But then I looked on further. Now I must say very well done after giving a third chance at the entire Instructable. Very Good!