Straw Bale Building Scotland

Barbara is also director of straw works which is a bespoke design company specialising in buildings made of straw and other healthy natural materials.

Straw bale building scotland. Straw bale building typically consists of stacking rows of bales often in running bond on a raised footing or foundation with a moisture barrier or capillary break between the bales and their supporting platform. In fact she is going to make use of the sizeable garden by building a series of straw bale structures that will be rented out to holidaymakers as an extra source of income. He hopes to build it for less next time the results are marvelous as you can see. There are two types of straw bales commonly used those bound together with two strings and those with three.

Load bearing straw bale building dvd from. The construction style used could be classed as retrospective load b. We re going to invite people to come for practical training in building with straw says kim. Documents the construction of a straw bale build on the remote island of eigg scotland.

Amazonails helped with the build and all went really well. He has installed moisture meters inside walls dating back 15 years so his confidence in this as a building technique comes from technically monitoring their durability over a 15 year period. Steve built a 4000 6 260 unpermitted house in scotland a few years back with local materials. Chris has been building straw bale homes for 18 years and building them in panel form since the year 2000.

Simon maxwell when justin and linda tyers decided to build a straw bale home in somerset they purchased their plot for just 50k under exmoor national park s affordable housing policy. Barbara is a strawbale building guru and author of building with straw bales the most comprehensive guide to strawbale building. The earliest mobile homes had r 8 or less. The adequately named jill strawbale house in strontian near fort william was built by owners robert and justine dunn to be a fully functional environmentally friendly holiday home.

Today insulated homes usually have r 20 in the walls and many old homes have r 14 for insulation or considerably less. A good straw bale home is significantly warmer than conventional building methods because a well packed bale is rated at r30 r35 minimum or considerably more. Geat people great place thanks to all. His websites are packed with wonderful photos and drawings that show the details.