Western Australia’s first hemp home has been completed in Margaret River and there are another three hemp building projects underway in the south west.
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Western Australia’s first hemp home has been completed in Margaret River and there are another three hemp building projects underway in the south west.
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A "modern" Straw Bale home just outside of Sacramento, California. http://images01.olx.com/ui/16/38/56/1318691036_106683256_1-Pictures-of--Lovely-custom-straw-bale-home-Euro-Gourmet-style-24-acres.jpg Building a house out of straw may seem, at first, like a foolish idea. However, over the past couple of decades, there has been a steady increase in Straw Bale homes being built, and with it has come better research showing the wisdom of this ancient building material. I am not going to get into the details of construction today. I just want to show the beauty of these energy efficient homes. A modern Straw Bale home under construction. http://www.nachi.org/images10-2/windows-in-straw-bale.jpg http://www.buildingwithawareness.com/pictures%202008/straw-bale-home-hybrid-house-glow.jpg http://www.syncronos.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/straw-bale-house-and-green-building-picture.jpg A modern Staw Bale home with Passive Solar and Solar Photovoltaic design. http://www.buildingwithawareness.com/pictures%202008/entry%20straw%20bale%20house.jpg A Straw Bale "Farmhouse". http://www.syncronos.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/straw-bale-house-and-green-building-picture.jpg Unusual Straw Bale home at the Lama Foundation in Taos, New Mexico http://leicesterexchanges.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lama-foundation-21.jpg A small, Straw Bale, second "home" in a Berkeley, California backyard. http://blog.whatsnexthomes.com/2011/07/23/live-like-one-of-the-three-little-pigs.aspx A Straw Bale mountain home. http://www.naturalhomeandgarden.com/uploadedImages/articles/daily/2008/2/EarthFlowDesignWorks-straw-bale-house.jpg Very unique Straw Bale home in Pembrokshire, UK http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/straw-homes-461209 A Straw Bale home in Argentina. http://naturalbuild.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/el-trebol-del-monte-yacanto-cordoba-argentina/ A Straw Bale home with Passive Solar design in New Zealand. http://www.builditgreen.co.za/Portals/0/Images/straw%20bale%20house%20finished.jpg The first Straw Bale home in New Zealand. http://www.ecobob.co.nz/EcoProperty/PropertyPhotoTour.aspx?propertyId=1265&imageIndex=4 Exterior and Interior of Straw Bale home in Oakland, California. http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/1-oakland-straw-home2.jpg Interior of Staw Bale homes can be beautiful! http://images.morris.com/images/cjonline/mdControlled/cms/2007/12/29/229851509.jpg The interior of the Straw Bale home shown at the very top of this article. http://images01.olx.com/ui/16/38/56/1318691036_106683256_1-Pictures-of--Lovely-custom-straw-bale-home-Euro-Gourmet-style-24-acres.jpg Unique floor and ceiling details in the Straw Bale home. http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2_strawbal3.jpg This couple built their Straw Bale home... one thing I love about these structures. http://www.designforward.net/news_diary.jpg Fine finished interior of a Straw Bale home. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1244/921390003_d42bd63944.jpg Non-conventional is a huge selling point with Straw Bale homes... http://0.tqn.com/d/create/1/0/3/X/1/-/IMG-1549.jpg ...but many Straw Bale builders choose more traditional designs. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1342/922243328_3122ad066a.jpg Deep inset windows are typical with Straw Bale homes. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/266169446_af3e9e112d.jpg Exquisite interior of a Straw Bale home in San Luis Obispo, California http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/straw-homes-461209
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On the last day of winter we began to share our hemp building skills. Tony, who we had met at Klara Marosszeky's Hemp Building Workshop in October 2011, joined us for the weekend. Braving an afternoon cold front that significantly dropped the temperature the three of us managed to do 18 mixes of hemp walling, working in some tricky areas under the noggins. Saturday brought improved weather and further reinforcements, friends Martin and Nerida and Tony's son, Joel and Joel's partner, Alice. Our helpers picked up the mixing and tamping skills quickly and did a great job. As the walls got higher we used firstly milk crates and a plank as our scaffold and then a plank on a some steel stands. To fill and tamp the walls as they got higher we had to be able to both see down into the form work and be able to reach a hand or tamper down to even out and tamp the layers of hemp lime mix. Hemping higher up the walls Working in a section with several closely spaced studs Once again we were working under window sills and noggins, but changes to the placement of form work made the work easier. The form work was at or just below the sill or noggin on the outside and about 12cm below the sill or noggin on the inside. This created enough room for an arm to reach under the noggin, but also allowed the hemp to be built up to and under the noggin on the outer side with the inside to be filled when the form work is moved up. Work was slow where there were lots of closely spaced studs, but difficult to get at sections were easier with one person spreading and tamping the hemp lime mix from the outside and another working from the inside. Tamping under a window sill Window sill - sloped down on the outside to shed water There was great camaraderie and we set a new daily record of 26 mixes, bringing our overall total to date to 102 mixes. To achieve this we had five people working all day and extra two people for half a day, however when we had seven people two were moving form work up while the rest mixed and tamped the hemp. We have been using half a bale of hemp until it became light enough to lift on top of the other bales of hemp, this is so we could clear more floor space and gain access to more of the external walls so that we can form them up. Layers of hemp - differing heights of layers due to location of noggins and windows Layers of hemp finished over different weekends Sunday was a glorious sunny spring day and this made the work of moving the form work up more pleasant, as did working with a tall helper. As the form work was moved higher up it became necessary to have two people to move it up. In one section the form work has been moved up to where it will join the eaves lining, we will probably have to do this section in small rises, with the form work lower on the inside. Form work getting higher Form work moved up, one section on outside to eves height
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