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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by tomc1985 on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:26AM (#22725486)
I visited some friends in South America and they had just bought a property out in the countryside and were building a house. They had a shed for housing their dog food (they rescued street animals) and, to my surprise, the inside of the walls were built with stacked-up Jack Daniels bottles. They covered the outside with wood paneling so it looked like a normal shack from the outside. I have no idea where they got so many bottles (my friend had a whiskey habit but this would have been a lot of drinking), but apparently this is a common thing to do over there

Articles like these pop up every now and then and I can't help but think of my friend's dogfood shack.

(Oh, and the house was built by a proper construction crew, with wood beams and all, not bottles...)

Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by bacon_waffle on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:47AM (#22726485)
A friend built a log cabin in Kentucky with different coloured glass bottles and jars interspersed in the chinking so that light comes through. Really neat effect.
Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by HenryBemis on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:51AM (#22726514)
Any chance you can share a photo? It would be really interesting to see the result on a "real" house.

I see some fine examples on duckduckgo search results, but they look too extravagant: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=house+made+of+glass+bottles...

Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by pengaru on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:47AM (#22725559)
It sounds like the bottles were serving as insulation, nothing structural.

Was there anything used as mortar between the bottles?

Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by tomc1985 on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:32AM (#22725736)
I think so, though I couldn't remember what it was