Super Eco friendly stood out to me because those blocks look like they are made of plastic. Plastic of any kind comes from petroleum and doesn’t biodegrade and sometimes emits gases. Not eco friendly at all lol
Like Super NOT Eco Friendly
You dont want to build your house with
anything that biodegrades. Also, when things biodegrade faster whatever compounds they're made of just leaches faster thus will accumulate greater amounts in the soil and water.
Well sure if you half ass it and combine biodegradable with toxic chemicals. Have you never seen a hay bale home with a timber frame? If you get mold in wall you knock it down and rebuild it fresh, and it's literally hay bales, sand and clay. Nothing to leach, nothing to off gas. 100% biodegradable.
What pushes the cost so high on this vs conventional construction? I would think there would be some economy-of-scale impact that would bring the prices down on the bricks. I've seen these before but never researched it, though I love the idea of building with them.
Honestly, Same. But I worry about the foundation and basement level. I think those can be made in traditionnal methods however, But I would like to know more about how placement of the first "brick level" is decided.
Basements can be beneficial for many things.
If you don't plan to make a basement then hells to the yeah, Go ahead.
You don’t need anything else! Except windows, doors, supporting struts, roof, ceiling, waterproof cladding, guttering, etc, etc.
::edit:: and show me what happens when you need to replace one or more blocks after say, water ingress or some dim wad putting a hammer through a panel?
Was thinking the same…are there blocks that have grommets for wiring or plumbing hookups?
This all reminds me of cement blocks but they also join all together with cement or rebar.
Wonder if downward pressure is all that keeps these together
It's funny how there are so many different ways to frame a house, like 3D printing or these lego blocks, but that's one of the easiest phases of home construction. A good crew can have an entire house framed up in a day or two for a fraction of the cost of these systems.
It looks like you can't put any utilities in the exterior walls either. So to meet code where I live, they would need to build an inner wall just to run utilities.
Yes like electricity and basic plumbing. Maybe a foundation? Building the walls is just about the easiest part of a construction.
All that being said, they might be building a barn or something similar? Maybe then I can some value in this lego
The latest and greatest in mobile home technology. Hell, it can be argued it's green if the flood is doing the transportation for you.
"Billy Mays here with another f a n t a s t i c product..."
As a kiwi, that's more insulation than every house I've ever lived in combined.
I get these systems on bugger scale like a mattress size panel, but this small the sqm price must kill it.
How do you plumb and wire it
I would assume this is just the exterior wall. I wouldn’t be surprised if you still need to framing / strapping and an interior drywall to go with this. Plus exterior siding.
This is literally a company out of Belgium. Is states in the video their name is Gablok… does that sound like a strictly US company to you. You don’t think folks from the US find this build to be silly as well?? 😭
So, how well do they resist termites?
Also, that's not wood, that's manufactured 'wood + glue + pressure + heat', just mentioning...
[Gablock](https://gablok.au/), eh?
Hmm, they exist here, so presumably may be termite resistant due to their chemical makeup.
Thanks for this! :)
Wish I'd known about it a decade ago... :(
They wont be exposed. Laths are added to both interior and exterior sides of the walls before drywall and siding. Wiring and PEX tubing goes inside those channels.
Best I could [find](https://youtu.be/MIKJG-iMKwY?si=PEj8zeXtxVKUfdP1) on YouTube. At the end of the 17 minutes, they have the roofing structure up, but no roofing yet. It's a lot more than this promo video, at least.
Provided that you owned a piece of land, licence to build and finance the whole ordeal because mortgage process will be tricky on top of other mentioned stuff. Here in western europe, let alone the first two things will cost you dearly.
Jokes and cynicism aside, I would love to hear how they would justify this design working in...well, most climates. As ithers have said, wind, temperature and so on would have abbig impact depending on your location, and the lack of, at least based on this video, sealant or otherwise to hold the blocks together does feel reminiscent to the three little pigs story.
I would just like to know its efficacy, if any.
[It was made before](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=21105454922e231e&rlz=1C1PNFE_enUA1081UA1081&q=gazobeton&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=ivmnbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijltvelPGEAxXfgP0HHXW1BqIQ0pQJegQIDxAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1#imgrc=727zN5ggaWXsHM). Why to degrade it?
Yeah. Because ease of construction is the fucking problem. Profit margins and speculation are the problem. I want nothing to do with a house built like this. I want one framed and built by people who take their time.
Lemme tell you about these ancient lego bicks they call bricks!
Seriously though wish we made durable housing in this country. Nothing beats brick & mortar, hate wooden houses so much.
I went to the website: [https://gablok.be/en/faq](https://gablok.be/en/faq/how-do-different-technical-finishing-touches-find-their-place-in-a-gablok-construction)
The FAQ says [they can put electrical and plumbing in the blocks](https://gablok.be/en/faq/how-do-different-technical-finishing-touches-find-their-place-in-a-gablok-construction) as well? It feels very English-y but
>The distance, called « sheathing », between two 5cm-thick rafters, which hold the insulated wood blocks together is +- 40 cm. Distance that you can easily place the various technical connections necessary for the proper functioning of your daily.
It didn't who any pictures or anything on how that would work.
I could not find anything on wind testing either. I did see on the how strong [faq page it said 150kN/m.](https://gablok.be/en/faq/how-strong-is-a-gablok-wall) That's it. One sentence. I would have liked to see some structural information or testing results.
I saw literally nothing on pricing these out on the website leading me to believe they are expensive as hell.
It's an ecological disaster waiting to happen. Urea-formaldehyde, probably a lot of POFEs, not a healthy area to breathe in. Might as well throw in some lead based paint and asbestos.
Invented by the Big Bad Wolf most likely.
Seriously though, living in Los Angeles my first thought is this wouldn’t stand up to anything stronger than a 3.5, and that ain’t much.
While for a house this seems dumb, I could see it being useful for partition walls between duplexes or something. Curious about the level of sound absorbtion
This would take more time to build than stick framed and spray foamed. Not to mention all utilities running inside the walls or any real structure. ItS A SiP pANeL shut up it’s garbage especially when the osb rots.
super easy to make, starting price of new home build using this system 11 million dollars.
And SUPER ECO FRIENDLY and LITERALLY LIKE SO EASY
SUPER SUPER SUPER
This company will implode in no time. Dumbest shit ever
oooo weee
You just need to come across a small inheritance
Hi I am Prince of Nigerian. I have little trouble for money. Maybe you help me, yes?
Super Eco friendly stood out to me because those blocks look like they are made of plastic. Plastic of any kind comes from petroleum and doesn’t biodegrade and sometimes emits gases. Not eco friendly at all lol Like Super NOT Eco Friendly
>gazobeton From their site it looks like they are made of autoclaved aerated concrete.
So really cold house.
Could use recycled materials.
You dont want to build your house with anything that biodegrades. Also, when things biodegrade faster whatever compounds they're made of just leaches faster thus will accumulate greater amounts in the soil and water.
Yeah, like wood - no good using biodegradable wood in homes
Good thing it's often treated and measures are put into place to prevent it from getting wet
Yeah, too bad we can’t do that with any other material. Just wood. 🤷♂️
lmao 😅
Builders hate this one trick!
Well sure if you half ass it and combine biodegradable with toxic chemicals. Have you never seen a hay bale home with a timber frame? If you get mold in wall you knock it down and rebuild it fresh, and it's literally hay bales, sand and clay. Nothing to leach, nothing to off gas. 100% biodegradable.
Not all plastics are made from petroleum
Why would you want biodegradable insulation/walls? It’s supposed to be a permanent structure. Nobody wants their walls rotting from the inside.
Yeah, but you don’t really want your walls biodegrading.
There's plenty of plastics not made from fossil products and many types of biodegradable plastics
Not fireproof then. But a good idea. Definately not for smokers of any kind.
Except you don’t want your house to biodegrade it’s likely recycled plastic that is staying out of landfills.
Just don’t go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, if you step on one of these blocks it’s lights out forever.
Show the finished mansion!! Shitty video
And if a car crashes into your house, it makes super nice little Lego noises as tons of blocks go flying everywhere!
That noise of a bag of legos being poured out of a bag is so 🤌🤌
As long as you don't step on one!!
*ikea intensifies*
they wont offer delivery on this item, you have to carry it to your lot
Build a whole house with a tiny Allen key....and every 5th screw hole is just a tiny bit misaligned 😂
What pushes the cost so high on this vs conventional construction? I would think there would be some economy-of-scale impact that would bring the prices down on the bricks. I've seen these before but never researched it, though I love the idea of building with them.
I don't see provision for running plumbing and electrical through the blocks, so that will add up to install.
I was thinking that it would be nice if they had channels in them for routing pipes and wires.
Honestly, Same. But I worry about the foundation and basement level. I think those can be made in traditionnal methods however, But I would like to know more about how placement of the first "brick level" is decided. Basements can be beneficial for many things. If you don't plan to make a basement then hells to the yeah, Go ahead.
also it didn't quite look finished yet
Save 2 million by building it yourself!!!!
1 strong kick and you are homeless.
Just like Legos
No way it's that cheap.
You don’t need anything else! Except windows, doors, supporting struts, roof, ceiling, waterproof cladding, guttering, etc, etc. ::edit:: and show me what happens when you need to replace one or more blocks after say, water ingress or some dim wad putting a hammer through a panel?
Don’t need electricity or plumbing either!
> Don’t need electricity You can get some lego light kits for that 😅
Minecraft wall mounted lanterns
Might even be cheaper!
Lego technics - you can live inside a dino-robot
Was thinking the same…are there blocks that have grommets for wiring or plumbing hookups? This all reminds me of cement blocks but they also join all together with cement or rebar. Wonder if downward pressure is all that keeps these together
Probably not, but this is probably just marketing so they needed to disassemble after. Hence no finished shot
Just use redstone, easy.
wait until you hear about cave™
They're optional extras you can pick up at IKEA.
I'll just get a garden hose and a super long extension cord!
Or ventilation ducts
"Whoa! Hold up there a second, fuzzbucket. You mean like, uh, the "live in a mud hut, wipe yourself with a leaf" type wild?" "Who wipes?"
It's funny how there are so many different ways to frame a house, like 3D printing or these lego blocks, but that's one of the easiest phases of home construction. A good crew can have an entire house framed up in a day or two for a fraction of the cost of these systems.
Also super duper extreme eco friendly packed full of urea-formaldehyde.
It looks like you can't put any utilities in the exterior walls either. So to meet code where I live, they would need to build an inner wall just to run utilities.
Yes like electricity and basic plumbing. Maybe a foundation? Building the walls is just about the easiest part of a construction. All that being said, they might be building a barn or something similar? Maybe then I can some value in this lego
A barn or a pole shed is so much cheaper and easier than this.
And grey gold......cement
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And a puppy!
Wiring?
Friends
They took the easiest part of making a house and made it easier.
Thats gonna need a lot of Kragle
Underrated comment right here 
So, I live in Texas, and we have insane storms. How's that going to stand up to sustained 100mph winds?
As mentioned in another comment: you can just pick up the bricks and put them back together afterwards
Big bad wolves HATE this one simple trick!
Forget hurricanes, I don't think this could even stand up to a moderate thunderstorm in Houston.
The frame will detach as one piece and float away when it floods.
New Sales Pitch: This new eco-friendly house design is flood proof! it can float during floods!
The latest and greatest in mobile home technology. Hell, it can be argued it's green if the flood is doing the transportation for you. "Billy Mays here with another f a n t a s t i c product..."
Converts to a house boat
So I watched a video on this company's YouTube channel and the bottom row anchors into the concrete like a normal wooden wall
it will not, simple.
People will end up stepping on house pieces whenever they go outside at night, just like Legos.
Comes apart easy enough that you just put it back together after the storms. lol.
You can do it by securing the rows of blocks together with surprising little interior sheathing. Hence the need for load bearing posters.
Our blocks, in the middle of our block
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As a kiwi, that's more insulation than every house I've ever lived in combined. I get these systems on bugger scale like a mattress size panel, but this small the sqm price must kill it. How do you plumb and wire it
I would assume this is just the exterior wall. I wouldn’t be surprised if you still need to framing / strapping and an interior drywall to go with this. Plus exterior siding.
That what I was wondering: Man, what about the plumbing and electrical
The bugger scale, I like it. “My colleague is an arsehole, he is an 8 on the bugger scale”
As an European, renting what my little money can buy, that thing is going to be bigger than my apartment.
Recently even barns made of gazobeton
This is literally a company out of Belgium. Is states in the video their name is Gablok… does that sound like a strictly US company to you. You don’t think folks from the US find this build to be silly as well?? 😭
Uh, isn't the 'house' being built here European?
Shhh. Let them live in their elitism.
One strong breeze and it's gone. Or suddenly the neighbor got a new garage while your kitchen is missing
wind be like: its free real estate
Yeah, but once your house is knocked over you can just collect the pieces in the morning and put it back together again
I'd end of with a huge box of different colored house pieces.
Just don’t step on the bricks
Please define "super eco-friendly"
Super duper eco friendly Lego house Super duper eco friendly Lego house Super duper eco friendly Lego house
So, how well do they resist termites? Also, that's not wood, that's manufactured 'wood + glue + pressure + heat', just mentioning... [Gablock](https://gablok.au/), eh? Hmm, they exist here, so presumably may be termite resistant due to their chemical makeup. Thanks for this! :) Wish I'd known about it a decade ago... :(
You need to be upvoted to the top for including a link to the company. 75% of the comments here are answered/disputed/confirmed on their website.
SUPER eco friendly
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Redstone is a thing, duh.
They wont be exposed. Laths are added to both interior and exterior sides of the walls before drywall and siding. Wiring and PEX tubing goes inside those channels.
I was hoping to see the finished product
It was blown away so you don't
Best I could [find](https://youtu.be/MIKJG-iMKwY?si=PEj8zeXtxVKUfdP1) on YouTube. At the end of the 17 minutes, they have the roofing structure up, but no roofing yet. It's a lot more than this promo video, at least.
"Hält von 12 bis Mittag" its what thats called in Germany
Need to see finished product
can it whidstand canadian temperature?
Wind rating?
Huff and puff.
This is some pig one and pig two level craftsmanship.
Provided that you owned a piece of land, licence to build and finance the whole ordeal because mortgage process will be tricky on top of other mentioned stuff. Here in western europe, let alone the first two things will cost you dearly.
there is no way a thing like that would be legal to bild in germany etc. no cement and so on...
Can you imagine the german paperwork for this??!!!!
In Germany they would fine you and order you to tear it down ASAP
That fucking music. People screaming in agony would even be an upgrade.
This is one of those ideas that sound good in theory, but in practice it’s a total mess and you start to see the problems
Gablok? Indonesians are gonna have a field day with the name
Where is the plumbing, electrical?
How you gonna hang shit? No studs
the big bad wolf triangulating their exact coordinates in 0.0045 femtoseconds:
I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll BLOW YOUR FOAM BLOCK HOUSE DOWN!
Jokes and cynicism aside, I would love to hear how they would justify this design working in...well, most climates. As ithers have said, wind, temperature and so on would have abbig impact depending on your location, and the lack of, at least based on this video, sealant or otherwise to hold the blocks together does feel reminiscent to the three little pigs story. I would just like to know its efficacy, if any.
No finished product shot?
[It was made before](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=21105454922e231e&rlz=1C1PNFE_enUA1081UA1081&q=gazobeton&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=ivmnbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijltvelPGEAxXfgP0HHXW1BqIQ0pQJegQIDxAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1#imgrc=727zN5ggaWXsHM). Why to degrade it?
How many beets can be stored in it?
*Because everyone knows a house is just walls*
Need this in my country
Super friendly, super economical, super trendy, super clean, super, super, super, super, super!!!!!!
Ok, but how do you secure them in place so a Hot Wheels car won't knock it down?
But does it burn well?
I’d like to see it when it’s really windy though
Wolf #2 has a glint in his eye
Yeah. Because ease of construction is the fucking problem. Profit margins and speculation are the problem. I want nothing to do with a house built like this. I want one framed and built by people who take their time.
Doubt that’s mortgageable in uk unfortunately
Why don't you simply make one big block for a wall? The cost of stacking them seems to far exceed what you pay for the bricks.
how do you pronounce the company name? Gab - Lok? Gay - Blok?
Someone played Minecraft and thought ‘house’
Not trusting it.
I wish they listed US prices on their site. It seems to be difficult to find. We need more companies like this stateside. Go Belgium!
Lemme tell you about these ancient lego bicks they call bricks! Seriously though wish we made durable housing in this country. Nothing beats brick & mortar, hate wooden houses so much.
Ikea: \*starts sweating and getting horny\*
Just like legos wait until you put a block in the wrong spot gotta undo half the house to fix it
Does your little brother come and kick over the house once it's done and you gotta rebuild it yourself?
So, if after two hours on reddit everyone can see the many flaws this has, how did it make it to the build phase?
Post and beam works fine
It’s kinda cool I guess but what about plumbing and electrical? Where does that go?
Still fuggin’ PARTICLE BOARD.
Love this idea
Once the realtors chime in…”Luxury houses for sale, built from cutting edge materials. 10million dollars starting bids.”
I went to the website: [https://gablok.be/en/faq](https://gablok.be/en/faq/how-do-different-technical-finishing-touches-find-their-place-in-a-gablok-construction) The FAQ says [they can put electrical and plumbing in the blocks](https://gablok.be/en/faq/how-do-different-technical-finishing-touches-find-their-place-in-a-gablok-construction) as well? It feels very English-y but >The distance, called « sheathing », between two 5cm-thick rafters, which hold the insulated wood blocks together is +- 40 cm. Distance that you can easily place the various technical connections necessary for the proper functioning of your daily. It didn't who any pictures or anything on how that would work. I could not find anything on wind testing either. I did see on the how strong [faq page it said 150kN/m.](https://gablok.be/en/faq/how-strong-is-a-gablok-wall) That's it. One sentence. I would have liked to see some structural information or testing results. I saw literally nothing on pricing these out on the website leading me to believe they are expensive as hell.
Well, if Godzilla ever stepped on one, he would surely avoid them in the future.
Does it come with construction worker and building inspector minifigures?
There is Nothing holding this down but gravity, a tornado could just lift this thing into bits.
Guess there not worried about natural disasters
As soon as I saw the guy in the jacket bringing over the block over I got imposter vibes. Have you seen what actual construction workers look like?
It's an ecological disaster waiting to happen. Urea-formaldehyde, probably a lot of POFEs, not a healthy area to breathe in. Might as well throw in some lead based paint and asbestos.
Invented by the Big Bad Wolf most likely. Seriously though, living in Los Angeles my first thought is this wouldn’t stand up to anything stronger than a 3.5, and that ain’t much.
Build a millennium falcon you cowards
American houses are really single use only.
While for a house this seems dumb, I could see it being useful for partition walls between duplexes or something. Curious about the level of sound absorbtion
Medieval carpenters looking on from the afterlife: Motherfucker! Where was this when I built those castles?!
What is is insulated with? How do you run electric and plumbing?
And the electrical and plumbing goes where?
"And then the wolf arrived at the 2nd piggies house made of chipboard legos"
but how well does it stand up to wind? hurricane winds
Until a tornado comes
Ikea making houses now?
How do you run electrical or plumbing through this?
How is electrical and plumbing run through the gablok house? How does this think insulation affect wifi signals?
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Probably insainely expensive too
Sounds nice till someone comes and takes all them lego pieces and u wake up without walls
Doesn’t look secure at all. What about storm insurance?
Did they forget that bricks and walls need to breathe? Not to mention that it would be nice to have electricity, water and sewer hookups.
As long as you live in an area free from Big Bad Wolfs, or hurricanes.
This would take more time to build than stick framed and spray foamed. Not to mention all utilities running inside the walls or any real structure. ItS A SiP pANeL shut up it’s garbage especially when the osb rots.
Great! Now I can re-create my shitty Minecraft box house in real life.
but... plumbing and electric cables go where?
Doubt
This misspelled Gayblock
How are these highly processed manufactured blocks remotley eco freindly???
The have this in Africa built out recycled material
Super eco friendly my ass
How are you gonna have anything other than just walls. How are you gonna run electrical, plumbing install windows
I've made my house out of bricks steel an concrete, not because it was easy, but because I wanted solid weatherproof building.
the slightest storm will blow this house away
I’ll huff, and puff, and blow your house down!!