Building A Small Straw Bale House

Building construction or a desire to build a straw bale house to a high standard using well researched methods.

Building a small straw bale house. Smaller operations bale the straw to use as bedding for cattle and pigs. The structure and weatherproofing goes up in the first year and the internal work in the second. It is a practical book reflecting the author s personal experience with tips and wisdom learned. Building homes from baled straw is nothing new.

Building a straw bale and plaster house is a low cost and environmentally friendly way to create a home. You may lower the cost if you put in more of your own time instead of paying for someone else s. The reason it works so well as a building material is because the. This guide covers the materials and methods you might use to build a straw bale house a house that can last hundreds of years is energy efficient and is cheap to maintain.

Our attempt at building a small straw bale house for 15 000 overview legally this straw bale house is a shed. As early as the 1800 s settlers in nebraska used straw to build homes out of necessity. It covers only the details about how to build the shell. However the purpose of this build goes far beyond just being a shed.

But are they safe. For simplicity this article will not include instruction on the installation of services such as natural gas electricity or water and sewer. Bohdan dorniak president of ausbale the australasian straw bale building association building your straw bale homeis a how to book for people interested in straw bale building. Given that most people are not able to work full time on their project most self build houses take two years to complete.

Straw on its own burns quickly and is subject to rot from rain. We built it in place of our previous shed which was on the property and needed a bit of upgrading.