Compressed Earth Blocks
Compressed earth blocks are machine-made building blocks made from cob or earth and are used for constructing new walling and reconstructing old and/or failed walling. Compressed earth blocks are manufactured using varying methods and machinery. Here at Earth Blocks Ltd our compressed earth block making machines delivery a variety of shapes and sizes.
Using compressed earth blocks for constructional use has many advantages. The principal benefit of building with compressed earth blocks is their carbon footprint, or lack of! Our compressed earth blocks require over 90% less energy to produce than that of concrete blocks. Why? Because we only use natural, geologically-formed soils in our compressed earth blocks.
For compressed earth block manufacturing, clayey soils that contain aggregates are the go-to resource. The only ‘additive’ we introduce to our compressed earth blocks is straw. Straw acts a conduit during mixing, a binder when being handled premanufacture and as a binder during curing. Compressed earth block or CEB is in fact a generic term, globally used and considered ‘a product made from earth that is compressed into block form’. We could split hairs here and say that our products are in fact ‘compressed cob blocks’.
Building with Compressed Earth Blocks
Compressed earth blocks require no specialist skills when it comes to construction. Accomplished brick and block layers have no problem using compressed earth blocks and the same can be said for the good general builder. Our compressed earth blocks are introduced to walling in exactly the same way as conventional building blocks and bricks.
