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 …
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Nov
02
Building Green With Straw | High Finance
Building Green With Straw | High Finance Day 4 | Straw Bale Retrofit The Building Green with Straw journey took another twist today and the straw bale retrofit is another step closer to reality. We made an appointment to see the bank manager today and he didn’t throw us out the door!
Nov
01
Energy Efficient Homes | So Many Compromises
Energy Efficient Homes Day 3 | Straw Bale Retrofit As part of our straw bale retrofit we have to extend the roofline on the house – for how simple that process of thinking THAT was see the previous post – however, we really need to think about how wide our overhangs are going to be. …
Oct
31
Straw Bale Constuction | Why Is Planning So Hard?
Straw Bale Construction Day 2 | Strawbale Retrofit As you know we are in love with Straw Bale Construction. We’ve already owner built our straw bale extention and now we are about to undertake a retrofit of the existing ‘cottage’ part of our home. We’ve been waiting for the weather to get better – we …
Oct
30
Energy Efficient Homes | Retrofit Your Existing Home
Energy Efficient Homes – Doing It Ourselves Day 1|The Retrofit Begins Living in energy efficient homes does NOT have to be an unattainable dream. No really it doesn’t because I’m living proof that with some thinking, some planning, some money, some materials, some time and a lot of hard work we can create much more …
Aug
06
Building Green With Straw | Straw Bale Construction
Straw Bale Construction Building Green with Straw is really catching the imagination of many people and architect Andrew R.Wheeler is one of them. I came across a great article he has written extolling the virtues of Straw as a Green Building Material. I couldn’t have said it better myself so I’ll let Andrew tell you how he …
Aug
06
Building Green With Straw Video
Building Green With Straw Videos are Great! It’s great to watch the progress as people begin Building Green With Straw. In this video, we see it right from the start – from the ground up. Now there isn’t any talking in this clip but a picture is worth a thousand words right? What I …
Jul
25
Sustainable Building Materials assessed by University
Straw Bale Home Assessed As Sustainable Building Material Sustainable building materials were used by the University of Bath when they constructed a demonstration two-story, straw bale building in 2009, called BaleHaus. The plan was to monitor the performance of the timber and straw bale home, subjecting it to all kinds of monitoring to gain essential …
Jul
23
Building Green With Straw | Green Home Building Alternatives
Green Home Building Alternatives with Cate Ferguson Green home building alternatives abound and it can be difficult to find which method, construction style or even which sustainable building materials appeal to you the most. With this in mind, Cate Ferguson provides you with information on various green home building alternatives to help make your choices …