Getting Started with Building Again
Day 6 Straw Bale Retrofit
We’ve taken a year off from building. We’ve had phenominal success with our straw bale addition to our home and we know we absolutely adore this form of construction and the end result is a beautiful, comfortable and well performing ecofriendly home. However, it’s hard work (like any building project) and we needed a rest. Somehow a whole year went by.
So we recently decided to get us back into the swing of things – we’d start the chook house. We already had one but after about 2 years, the chickens moved out and started slumming itout in the open – so we made them a bit of a humpy under some corrogated iron and some strawbales. Wonder if they want a straw bale chicken coop?
Well they can’t have one BUT they can have a new one – purpose built, bespoke designed by us and using as many recycled materials as we can manage. I’ll keep you informed as the fire up the air compresser and nail gun and begin creating The Chook Palace.
This little building, the new chicken coop palace, will get us back into the swing of building – it will ensure our tools are all in working order, hone our estimating and construction techniques again, use up some of the annoying building leftovers we have about the place and generally rekindle our relationship with our building suppliers. Pictures coming soon.
I guess it’s not quite the straw bale retrofit project I’d imagined but somehow it just makes sense to us.