A man in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region recently made the news recently,
after it was reported that he built the walls of his house by using
12,000 champagne bottles.
OddityCentral has more:
52-year-old Hamidullah Ilchibaev has always been
interested in constructing things out of beer and vodka bottles, but it
wasn’t until he lost his 18-year-old son that he began working on his
greatest project – a glass bottle house. His son had always admired his
work and pushed him to build a house someday, so he decided to go
ahead with the idea, in his memory. Over the course of three years, he
managed to collect 12,000 champagne bottle of various shapes and
sizes.Some he purchased at a ruble apiece, and others were donated by
nearby restaurants.
“When I started to build, I hadn’t even imagined that
there are so many different kinds of bottles of champagne,” he said. He
discovered that the bottles not only varied in color, but also quality.
The bottles he finally collected were of different shapes and sizes, so
he used a special glass cutter to cut the tops off to the same size.
He made use of these bottles as one would bricks, stacking them up
around a solid foundation. Between the insulation and the neck of the
bottle, he left a gap of the thickness of a finger, into which he poured
a solution that when solidified firmly holds the bottles in place, and
keeps the house warm as well.
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