Build your own house with these lego-like bricks.

[Bayard]

Two days, $30K

[WhiteTara]

1. Well, that's what I want!

[global1]

2. Kool!!!!!....nt

[snacker]

3. Wow!

This is great!

[Mosby]

4. Where's the plumbing and electrical?

Where's the ac and heating ductwork?

It's not a house, it's a fancy shed.

[MineralMan]

5. Picky, picky. Now you want lights and heat?

[Stinky The Clown]

13. The walls are hollow. I expect that's where they are..

Plus, all that video shows was a "snapshot". I am sure the house has all of that.

[MineralMan]

6. Just wait until you go to the planning department and apply for

a building permit for that house. After they get done laughing, they'll tell you you need engineered drawings and specs.

It's a cute idea, sort of. But it ignores wiring and plumbing, and you'll notice them using a rubber hammer in some photos to seat the side pieces. A lot of the cost for this system is in the millwork to create the hundreds and hundreds of pieces used to assemble this. For this to work, too, all of the wood used must be kiln-dried so it's dimensionally stable.

Building systems like this show up every once in a while, and then disappear, because they aren't practical, don't meet building codes, and for other reasons.

So, it's mildly interesting but regular stick-built houses go up quickly, too, up to the framing and siding phases. Wiring, plumbing and finishing work takes up most of the time in building newly-constructed homes.

However, if you find the website for that building system, I'll bet you can invest in it with the people who invented it. Soon, there will be flying cars, err...wooden block houses going up everywhere in Blue Sky, Wisconsin. Yah, sure, you betcha...

[Mosby]

8. You would also have use some sort of siding or facia board

You can see that they used some silicon in a corner, the walls are basically not waterproof.

[MineralMan]

10. Yes, that's true. Not waterproof at all as built in the video.

When I was designing projects for Family Handyman magazine, one of them was a 10' X 12' shed/workshop, with a 10/X12' concrete apron in front of it. It used clear redwood T&G siding over a typical frame construction with a shed roof. It also was fully-wired, had a sunroof and a solar-heated roof. From the time I built the forms for the concrete slab until I was taking photos of the finished project, it all took just one week, and I was working by myself with no helpers, except for a kid who helped me screed the concrete.

It took me almost as long do to the drawings for the project after it was completed. I also had to take step-by-step photos throughout the construction, using a camera on a tripod and a self-timer.

Stick frame construction goes pretty quickly. I'm a fast worker with outstanding skills, or was at the time, anyhow, back in the 1980s.

When it was finished, it was a tight, comfortable building, built to code. It was on the cover of Family Handyman in 1984 or 86. I can't remember.

One week to build. By myself.

[FakeNoose]

9. I'd worry about fires in these structures

One spark in the wrong place and it would go up in smoke almost immediately.
This might be a nice idea for a shed or small barn though.

[fierywoman]

7. How would this kind of construction hold up in an earthquake?

[MineralMan]

11. It would rattle some, I'd think.

[yewberry]

12. The website says they're rated to an 8.5. nt

[tinrobot]

14. Approx $149K for a 1291sf house

Not any cheaper than stick-built.

You also have to build on stilts. No slabs.

https://www.homecrux.com/build-house-without-nails-or-screws-thanks-to-brikawood-interlocking-wooden-bricks/65913/

[Disaffected]

15. I built a "Cedar Log" (Pan-Abode) house:

The walls leaked like a sieve (both water and air, especially at the corners) and, had poor insulation value. Finally had to clad it in rigid insulation and siding.

Building that thing was the worst decision I have ever made. It's OK now but I cry whenever I think of how much effort went in to it.

[Duppers]

16. So sorry for you. 😞 But I thought about that...

The air leakage, I mean, and the more narrow widths in which to install insulation. You could even see open air pockets in the video, especially on the corners.

It would also be a tinder-box, would it not? A log home, on the other hand, would be much less likely to burn easily.