Slow but sure
Things are going slow but we are making sawdust and lots of noise, and a few things are starting to take shape. Here we have the new gable wall taking shape, we are going from the straw over to stick frame. Stick frame is very fast compared to the straw clay building method. As we go along you will begin to see the roof outline and notice that the South side of the house will have a very long slope. This is part of the passive solar collector part of the house. As we are buildingthe house to be a big solar collector that we just happen to live in, with the end goal to be a self heating house.
A few days later and we have the panel board going up, we have scaffolding up to help makes things a bit safer. We had to stop here and build a solar rack to move the panel to as they where on the other side of the new wall and mostly in the shade.
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Tags: building with straw, passive solar, solar collector, solar house building, straw bale house
August 31st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Can I see this right in your picture, you’ve got the straw bale wall’s exposed during the building process? How are you protecting them from getting wet?
Also, how long have you been living in that straw bale house and how have you found living in it so far?
Cheers
Mark
August 31st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I have always wanted to build a straw house! Cheers! I love watching it progress through your blog too.
Keep up the great work! Looking forward to more.