Sep. 08 Straw Bale Workshop
We had a great workshop this weekend and we would like to thank everyone who participated and everyone who helped make everything run smoothly. Here are a few pictures (more to come) and we should get some nice video footage to post too. The construction site will be a straw bale home soon.
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Everyone working on building the straw bale walls.
Natural Building is so easy, even the kids can do it. Here’s Wesley working with earth plaster.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I am interested in building a straw bail house but I was told that due to the humidity of kentucky and the weather that it wasent a good median cuz of mold have you all ever run into this issue also are their codes differences for straw bail ????
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Hi John,
There are successful straw bale homes in every climate. Humidity is not a problem but moisture is. If a wall is built to allow moisture into the wall or if it allows humidity to condense into moisture in the wall then you have a problem as you would with any construction type. We had just such a problem with a house near Owensboro, KY where the owner had insisted on not flashing the windows properly. She had been to some workshop in the southwest where they weren’t flashing the sills, apparently, and water got in around the windows and rotted the straw below the windows. However, proper detailing will allow you to build with rot and fire resistant straw bales anywhere. I think that rumor must be being promoted by the second and third little piggies who build with wood and brick. However the viability of straw bale walls has now been proven.
sorry for the delay in response.