How to Build a Straw Bale House : Mixing Cement for your Straw Bale House

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Uploaded by on May 8, 2006

Want to build a fort for the kids? Learn how to mix cement to the proper consistency for your straw bale house construction, in this free video.

Expert: Shelley Jones
Bio: Shelley Jones is a professional environmental decorator and lives in her own straw bale home.

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  • Mixing it with your hand? Than keeps talking, while saying dont breathe it in....comical lol

  • Using cement is counter productive as it is dense, rigid and doesnt allow the straw to breathe. Pure lime mortar on the other hand allows for movement of moisture and is more flexible. Cement production also creates a massive amount of co2

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  • @freddiestar Look up cement stacco:  'vapor-permeable, water-resistant building paper'. It's the only material that can provide a water-resistant coating for a building that WILL BREAK DOWN WHEN EXPOSED TO MOISTURE!!! Being green is one thing... being unreasonable and not checking facts before speaking is another.

  • She's got some big tits

  • Why are there no experts living in "Expert Village", I didn't think American understood irony?

  • What's all this talk about cement and lime? Al I saw were some pretty awesome boobs!!! Thanks for the boner Shelley!

  • Before taking this womans advice just remember that she doesn't know the difference between mortar or render and concrete! what she is mixing is not concrete. she should be adding lime to, it adds elasticity to the mix and helps it to "breath" when dry. take those big titties home and leave it to people who know what they are doing! people take advice from this type of video and its plain wrong!

  • yeah, the bales will decay inside of that cement! What other "experts" are in that village??????

  • yeah i think using something lime based affords for what ever is behind it to "breath" and allows for movements - less likely to crack etc. would not mixing with a stick or drill whisk be better? nice video though

  • Hell Yeah 0.45 GodDamm! I lovewomen

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