Anyone built a strawbale house - paticularly in Vic?
Rob
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Anyone built a strawbale house - paticularly in Vic?
Rob
A lot of people -see back issues of -owner builder ,earth garden ,sanctuary ,etcQuote:
Originally Posted by robri
:D .
Have seen something on tv recently -hot property , the story was about the owners of earth garden magazine building a new office from straw bale
http://www.earthgarden.com.au/strawbale/faq.html
Regards , Bela
"Hot property" featured one on tonights program, check out their web site they may have information on it.. it was built in victoria
Mate has one out at Kinglake, there's a builder up there that did it to get experience with it.
Do you want the contact?
I would like to know ,perhaps pm ,me.Regards ,Bela:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Clinton1
google it in au. i researched it myself a while back and there's a stack of aussi info out there...
Would love the contact - pm me if you think it would be betterQuote:
Originally Posted by Clinton1
I am curious, what is the facination with strawbale houses. I know that they have phenomal insulation properties but after watching Hot Property they seem alot of work and they siad that the office they built cost $120k. Surely you can build something using traditional methods for cheaper than that?
Please note, I am not bagging strawbale buildings just can't understand why all the rave reviews.
But they also said that it was substantially cheaper (approx $ 50K if I remember correctly) than a convential building and it was built by a builder during winter and he was prepared to pay extra to have it finished quickly whilst he was on his second holiday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wood Butcher
Apart from being cheaper, better insulated and soundproofed it can easily be built by an owner builder. Also it is much easier than building with mudbricks.
Peter.
What Sturdee said, plus good fireproofing due to the lack of air in the walls. Easy to build, and cheap.
Old mate just up the road is trying to build one. Meeses is causing real havoc
I kid you not.
I'm inclined to think that in a fire situation the cement render over the bales would fall away due to the heat thus exposing the straw and then you'd lose everything.
I have some photos from ash wednesday showing buildings with solid concrete block walls that just disinegrated from the radiant heat.
:confused: You have to bag them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wood Butcher
Or render them at least.
Al :confused:
If done correctly, they have a 1 hour fire rating.Quote:
Originally Posted by echnidna
Al
We have been studing these for about 4 years. The big holdup is capital is now involved in new business not new house:( Cement render will crack under extreme heat but using a mud/earth/clay render and the first coat really rubbed into the bales allowed try dry properly then 2 & 3 coat you WILL have a excellent rendered wall.
The savings can be made in doing a lot of it yourself ... would suggest visiting open days advertised in Owner Builder mag. Victoria is the most prolofic (?)nazis:eek: area for strawbale houses
The big fasination is the LOOOONNNG term heating & cooling savings I know one in Adelaide hill temp varies between 15-26 all year and this has computer readouts from several parts of the house
and its the FEEL of the place.
Wood Butcher its just that the feeling
I could go on do google searches on strawbales....& strawbale houses and anything else around that area there is piles of it a lot from unintelligent fartarses but a lot of very good stuff VISIT A STRAW BALE HOUSE.:cool:
I could go on and on etc etc Tony ;)
A strawbale house isn't any cheaper unless you do the work youself. The walls of a house make up about 10 - 15% of the total cost of a house. If you have granite bench tops and gaggenau cooktops you'll still spend a fortune.
I'm going to build a strawbale later this year.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
And when you have made a few of them, you can build a house out of them.
(to the humour nazis, how was that? OK I hope)
Al :p
R' u gona do working bees?Two of my sons are interested in strawbale building.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
Romsey is real close to us .We would love to come and see.
Regards ,Bela
I'd have thought that just about every building type would have suffered, except underground and those fires. Not arguing with you mate, just don't see that too many building types would have survived. (except where owners took the smart route and did a bit a pre-fire season prep)Quote:
I have some photos from ash wednesday showing buildings with solid concrete block walls that just disinegrated from the radiant heat
The strawbale is compressed and then rendered, so there is minimal air within the walls (i.e. between the render). Thats the reason they have a good fire rating.
That bloke I know - his hobby is maintaining an 18 - 20 degree internal temperature without heating or cooling.
Con - thick walls = reduced useable floor area as a ratio to roof coverage.
Not a prob if you have a large block.
But wottabaout the big bad wooleff, he'll huff and he'll..............................................
Ok, that was lame, but I'm tired. :p
Ah, hahh.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
See! one stupid joke, thats all it takes, next thing you know there will be a sense of humour buy back scheme.
Youll never take me alive copper.................
Al :D
Yeah, when I get to the mud slinging days, I'd like to get as many people together as I can.Quote:
R' u gona do working bees?Two of my sons are interested in strawbale building.:)
Romsey is real close to us .We would love to come and see.
<!-- / message --> Regards ,Bela
Probably, get people to work like dogs for the day and then put on a BBQ and beer in the evening. I've got 30 acres and a river, so anyone who wants to camp is welcome.
I'll send out an SOS when I know when it's happening.
Chris <!-- sig -->
you know there has been a huge leap forward in modern australian architecture, and the simple forms that are coming about allow a home to be built without disturbing the land it sits on (no excavation costs), and forget those expensive granite kitchens, kitchens now are designed to be mobile or part of the house , not added to it as extra cost...and best of all you can have lots and lots of nice timber...
la H
what abouut those houses in the greek islands, you know the white ones!, there built from the land, no bunnings stores on santorini, and there design is fantastic, and maintains an almost constant temp.
one could even use the straw bale in that style of architecture...
:D Not to hijack a thread ,but one of my favorite hobyhorses is trying to make our muddy energy efficient ,try to conserve &recycle water .There must be others with this idea on this list .Please send me your favourite links.Or share info on how you done it .Are there any discussion groups that deal with this subject?:)Quote:
Originally Posted by la Huerta
Regards ,Bela
Where to start?
http://www.greenandgoldenergy.com.au/
http://www.carbonneutral.com.au/default.aspx
http://www.biolytix.com/ourProducts/...er-recycle.htm
http://www.byohouse.com.au/forum1/index.php
That will do for starters.
Al :)
And then there is this.
http://www.au.store.yahoo.com/solaro...winhybsys.html
All in my to do tray.:o
I have a few projects to finish and then I will be building a house somewhere, incorperating all this technology.
Save the planet dude, except anchovies, I hate anchovies, phtooie:D
Al :)
Dude!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
Youll need the services of a bricklayer long before that, a suave good looking, mean lean work hardened brickie.:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Im buggered if I know where youll find one. :D
Al :p
I got a mate who's a fricken ugly one. He also deals in crap.
:D
i'v been dreaming of building a mexican adobe style house ever since burkes backyard went to mexico 10yrs ago...2ft thick walls create the thermal mass needed for energy efficiency..
Ive always like the Santa Fe look.
http://images.google.com.au/images?s...ecture&spell=1
http://justinsomnia.org/images/santa...chitecture.jpg
Al :)
Sorry guys, that bloke is proving hard to track down. Will have another go tomorrow.
Hes in the car that just crashed into the tree..Quote:
Originally Posted by Clinton1
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=28701
Al :p
Very quick Al, very quick.:D
ozwinner my main man, love that style too, those logs through the wall for the roof are so cool...greek, mexican, santa fa, it's all good and all seems to revolve around similar architecture...
Santa Fe adobe was the poor mans house, now, you have to be rich to live in one.Quote:
Originally Posted by la Huerta
Al :(
I think I would like a house that looked like it just grew out of the ground.
Orgasmic like.
The house that Orgasmo Built. :p
Roll up, roll up........https://www.ubeaut.biz/shout.gif
Al :D
yes rich would be handy, then you could build this
http://www.careyes.com.mx/oriente/ORIEN02.jpg
No thanks, too flash for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by la Huerta
I like simple styles.
Al :)