Our Strawbale House
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The document provides a summary of the process of building a straw bale home over multiple seasons. It describes laying the foundation, insulating the structure, erecting the walls using straw bales, adding a roof, and completing the interior framing and finishing work like plastering, drywall installation, flooring, and amenities like kitchens and bathrooms. The multi-year process is exhausting but results in an energy efficient home that provides comfort once completed.
Our Strawbale House
- 1. Moments with straw bale building Some slides of the process to build our straw bale dream home.
- 2. The house should 乙看h艶姻艶.
- 3. First, lets do a perk test.
- 4. Now for the hole.
- 5. This guy does not know what hes in for.
- 6. Forms? How do you do that?
- 7. Footings, my back hurts already
- 8. Lets insulate it really well.
- 9. Bring the concrete truck again.
- 10. ICF Looks easy, yes?.
- 11. Easy, but not that easy.
- 12. Time for more concrete.
- 13. Now that was exhausting.
- 14. We are now firmly committed pony walls to hold the floor.
- 15. Lets screw down the sub-floor.
- 16. Next the trusses and framing.
- 17. Better get a roof on to put the straw under, to keep it dry.
- 18. The bales, lets get them on the hottest day of the year.
- 20. The roof is a months work. Notice the straw underneath.
- 21. Lets start the straw bale part.
- 22. Carving and cutting bales
- 23. Bashem into line with our mallet.
- 24. Starts to look like a house.
- 25. Straw not hay, if you mention 3 little pigs we know youre an idiot.
- 27. Plastering is one huge job.
- 28. Mud, mud glorious mud.
- 29. And were still married.
- 30. We tarp the house for the winter.
- 31. This lets work and Christmas celebrations continue until spring.
- 32. Because of the tarps plastering could start earlier in the year.
- 33. As soon as it warms up, off comes the tarp.
- 34. Plastering the inside continues.
- 35. Eventually this plaster mayhem comes to an end.
- 36. Every straw house has to have a truth window to show the straw.
- 37. Now we are ready to frame the interior.
- 38. The framing, like everything else takes far longer than expected.
- 39. Did we mention the soffits?
- 40. Hand milled white pine, this job was huge, two weeks of grunting.
- 41. Drywall is the next step, yucko!
- 42. Now every surface has to be plastered again with gypsum finishing plaster, ceilings too!
- 43. The first signs of a kitchen appear.
- 44. During all this, canning season arrives.
- 45. The Mexican bathroom vanities are brought in.
- 46. A few trees and this really starts to look like a house now.
- 47. There are still a lot of things to deal with like, water
- 48. And compacting.
- 49. Putting the acorn on the cupula.
- 50. Inside were still slogging away on the plaster.
- 51. Family visits help to deal with the over abundance of fruit.
- 52. The joys of thinset mortar and in floor heating.
- 53. Shirley enjoys the kitchen with warm floor.
- 54. Straw really is great insulation, our heating bill goes way down.
- 55. The great room floor is finished with fir t&g, the dog likes it too.
- 56. At last we have a place to enjoy.
- 57. Its not gardening season yet, so Shirley actually lays on the couch.