To many, it’s believed that a house can never be built without cement and last longer. But for me, I realized that a house can last even without having been built without using cement as an ingredient. Just like they say that “traveling is seeing” while “exploring while returning is narrating”, the same applies to my recent travel.
The world is amazing with lots of stuff that many look at as being impossible yet in reality they aren’t. I came to realize that a person can be able to build a house and in fact a long-lasting house without using cement, a substance that sets and hardens independently in addition to binding other materials together, for example, bricks.
The whole process of building a house without cement is something that rotates around the use of some alternative materials that can be got for free. For example, mixing anti-hill soil and cow dung works as a replacement for cement and sand.
Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles which are known to be very useful when making things like concretes and or binding other materials after it has been mixed with cement and or other alternatives as mentioned above.
Having all the above in place and mixing them all together is the starting point towards having a ready-made house although bad weather is known to be a hindrance, especially during the construction times for example during the rainy season. It is recommended that one either covers the building with polythene during the bad season and or it is better to always build using the above materials during the sunny times.
This trick is very simple to use and adapt as it takes very few resources both in financial and others which means having a ready house without spending much.
It is assumed that a basin of cow dung mixed with 3 wheelbarrows of anti-hill soil can mix up to 6 wheelbarrows of sand which one can use to construct a good number of bricks.
One thing to know about this formula is that after the house is finished, one may need to do a full plastering of both the inside and the outside since the materials used can easily get off, especially during the rainy season.
