Building A Small Straw Bale House

Straw on its own burns quickly and is subject to rot from rain.

Building a small straw bale house. It is possible to self build in straw bale for around 650 m2 for a finished home. Building construction or a desire to build a straw bale house to a high standard using well researched methods. You may lower the cost if you put in more of your own time instead of paying for someone else s. Building a straw bale and plaster house is a low cost and environmentally friendly way to create a home.

You can get this price even lower if you spend more time making your own lime plaster. As early as the 1800 s settlers in nebraska used straw to build homes out of necessity. However the purpose of this build goes far beyond just being a shed. Building homes from baled straw is nothing new.

There was little wood to build with so the settlers used what was available from their wheat barley and rye harvests. The structure and weatherproofing goes up in the first year and the internal work in the second. Our attempt at building a small straw bale house for 15 000 overview legally this straw bale house is a shed. We built it in place of our previous shed which was on the property and needed a bit of upgrading.

Smaller operations bale the straw to use as bedding for cattle and pigs. The reason it works so well as a building material is because the. 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. It covers only the details about how to build the shell.

It is a practical book reflecting the author s personal experience with tips and wisdom learned. But are they safe.