Straw Bale Home Construction Instructional Video

Straw bale house conctruction is shown in this movie trailer for the "Building With Awareness" DVD video. Straw bale walls, thermal mass walls, earth plaster techniques, and passive solar design are all explained in this how-to DVD on building with natural materials.

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[rayunseitig]

Interesting. The main point has got to be the insulation properties of the straw. All the structural stuff is still load bearing framing. Like Adobe now adays, structural framing and a veneer or in fill with adobe. What's the point? Glamor or pretending to be green?

[syncronos]

Straw is an excellent insulator (around R-40); they take little energy to manufacture (unlike fiberglass) it is recycling a waste product for farmers, the walls are very thick and aesthetically pleasing (an equivalent wood frame wall would be very expensive and waste of wood; they are easy to stack, so even a novice can do it; and, despite what might make sense, finished straw bale walls are so thick and dense that they have a better fire protection rating than conventional wood-frame walls.

[Believia]

I would shot myself before building a strawbale house. That must be full of mice and bugs.

[syncronos]

Straw bale houses have no more bugs or mice than a conventional home. The straw bale walls are sealed on both sides, so it is difficult for anything to get in them. In addition, tests have shown that straw bales homes have a better fire rating than conventional homes. Since the straw is so dense, straw bale walls tend to smolder instead of burn with a flame.

[gavoau1]

can you line a steel hanger shed for insulation?

[syncronos]

Yes, you could use straw bales for insulation on the walls. The steel shed is already self-standing, so the bales would just be secured to the existing wall.

[Mrstevew2]

straw bale walls can go up to 18 feet in arizona per building code without needing any post and beam framing all self supported.They are actually very strong

[Certiport1]

Now you are talking my kind of home!!! This is great.

[KoolJust4U]

@MrAubery what you talking about is hay, hay is a food source for animal. straw doesn't decay, but can if chemical are use.

[howtofinishabasement]

Yes, it's more of a green building. Love the solar panels on the roof.

[mtt37849]

This is like light green building, if u want dark green building check out an Earthship!

[21centuryg]

How do these homes stand up against bad weather such as tornadoes or hurricanes or earthquakes?

[MrAubery]

doesn't straw decay and get nasty?!

[TransportationSupply]

This video is extremely entertaining and informative! I had no idea that a home so beautiful could exist.

[ThePrezidentialbey]

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