strawbale2
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How to build a How to build a straw bale homestraw bale home
While tending the While tending the garden.garden.
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Building site in FebruaryBuilding site in February
House site in February
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House site in May.
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Looking west across building site.
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They look so fresh
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The hole
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Compacting complete
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The batter boards determine the layout
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Orienting the house to the sun is very important.
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This part was really pleasant
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Marking out the footings.
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Building the footing forms was less fun.
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Intricate intersections, lots of leveling and bending rebar.
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We get the barley straw on the hottest day of the year.
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Two trailers and a breakdown
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This took the whole day, 500 bales at 38 degrees.
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You may think the bales are a little premature.
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We have yet to pour the footings, the plastic bottles are to keep the site safe, impaling an eyeball is not in the budget.
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Suddenly, the forms are poured and dry, the plastic bottles are still in place to protect us.
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We are now ready to put insulation and vapor barrier on the ground.
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Viola 2.5 inches of foam.
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Now we pour some concrete on the foam.
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ICF’s are really popular now, it is a great way to pour foundation walls.
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Checking that the top of the foundation wall is level.
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As if by magic the foundation walls are in place.
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The pony walls will hold up the TJI’s , and that is what holds up the floor.
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The temperature now is around 40 degrees so an umbrella is very helpful.
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5000 screws and no squeaks. If possible everything is on wheels, umbrella, plywood and us.
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The river is useful for cooling down.
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Some framers help us to stand up the trusses
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The roof line is a bit complex.
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The framing is complete.
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Strapping the roof took way too long.
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Shirley backfills, and I stay on the roof for a month.
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Some help, and then……….
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Skin the roof
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It might look like I’m resting, but we stacked ‘em to the rafters.
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Finally a roof.
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The straw has all been tested with a moisture meter.
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This is a big moment, the first bale.
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There were many of these moments, measuring and cutting took up to one and a half hours per bale.
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Gradually the walls take shape.
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The house is held up by post and beams, with many diagonals preventing the whole thing from falling over.
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In some places the bales slide right in.
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We have four 45 degree angles in this house, it is not recommended but we did it anyway.
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The straw part is really coming along.
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No straw bale builder can get by without a straw mallet.
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The construction site is very unconventional.
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We are getting tired of straw now.
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From across the river it looks….. Strange.
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We surround the house with tarps so work can continue all winter.
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Tar paper is placed over all the exposed wood.
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Inside, we apply stucco mesh and sew it to the bales.
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Once the mesh is done, the second huge jobs begins……….plastering.
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Shirley mixed ALL the plaster so as to keep a consistent mix.
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As my hat says, I unleashed my creativity and it escaped.
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The bales beg to be finished.
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Notice the boxes above the windows, these we designed to help light travel up as it comes through the windows.
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Me travelling through a window to get onto an icy roof in November.
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Our first Christmas at 15 below.
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Laying out the interior walls before plastering, it’s too cold to plaster anyway.
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A good look at the window detail.
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A view from the bluff’s
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This photo was taken in the summer 2009 after the windows and plaster were finished.
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The EndThe End
Although lots of finishing is Although lots of finishing is
yet to be done on the house…….yet to be done on the house…….