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Home Building Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green

Straw bale house plans

September 16th, 2006 by Ryan Johnston

While on our summer vacation, our inbox had some requests for straw bale house plans. Here are some links and resources for those looking for house plans for building a straw bale house. By the way, a friend of ours is building a straw bale garage in Calgary. We are planning on talking to him and posting some pictures soon.

Straw-bale construction is a building method that uses straw bales as structural elements, insulation, or both. It is commonly used in natural building. It has advantages over some conventional building system because of its cost and easy availability, and its high insulation value.

straw bale house plans

Building a straw bale house

Although grasses and straw have been in use in a range of ways in building since pre-history around the world, their incorporation in machine-manufactured modular bales seems to date back to the early 20th century in the midwestern United States, particularly the sand-hills of Nebraska, where grass was plentiful and other building materials (even quality sods) were not.

Tagged as: straw bale house plans, green building, resources, natural, environment

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A great home building blog - Paso Straw Bale Construction Blog

September 10th, 2006 by Ryan Johnston

We just found this great blog about the experience of building a straw bale house. You can find the blog at http://pasostrawbale.blogspot.com/.

In the year 2000 I started straw bale dream house that would be ecologically sound, environmentally friendly, and a place to finally call home. In choosing Dave Exline/Three Little Pigs Construction, I ventured into house building hell.

This is the story of the building of that house. The story of what happens when you trust someone you should not. The story of bad decisions, poor quality work, and lack of accountability. The story of what it takes to salvage what was once thought unsalvagable.

Tagged as: ecology, environment, straw, bail, building

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