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Wangaratta Workshop Day 2

Two Straw Ladies

Another busy day with all walls now built and all top plates in place. We started compression of the walls and it is all going very well. Heavy down pour of rain and some hail at 6pm but nothing to worry about now the top plates are up. We start rendering tomorrow.

: Laser levelling

: We have a great team on this workshop

: Moving Day

: Compression under way using a laser level a compressor and a rattle gun

: How to get a level top plate

: Two Straw Ladies

Wangaratta Workshop Day 1

Lunch Time

Day 1 of 5 all went well today many lessons learnt and a lot of bales went up. We also started putting up the top plates.

: Busy Day Top Plates Going on!

: Making Half Bales

: Lunch Time

: Corner Braces did the Job

: Cleaning Up

: Corner Bracing Coming Off

Wangaratta Workshop

Watch This Space

We arrived to a well planned and executed work site. Everything is in place for the start of our next workshop starting tomorrow morning. Guy has made huge progress following the workshop that he and Debbie attended last year. We are looking forward to this workshop with three pavilions to be built, made ready for roofing and rendering.

: Lime and sand in Place

: Top Plates and Trusses Ready

: The Pavilions

: The Garage Guy Built

: Excellent Use of the Huff n Puff Hybrid Method

: Watch This Space

Straw Bale in Russia

Thought that you might enjoy this web site from Russia with Straw Bale Love:

RUSSIA STRAW BALE.

The text is in Russian but you can get your browser to translate, well we can on Google Chrome.

The music is great and the photos are stunning especially of the horses:

Just a wee interlude between jobs.

CSIRO Bush Fire Testing

This young man, Joost Bakker has IDEAS, plenty good ones

By Joost

Joost Bakker

Ganmain Floods

Home is a Straw Bale House

WELCOME TO OUR WEB SITE!

WHY STRAW BALE? ONE ANSWER: SUPER INSULATION = LOW POWER BILLS:

Surge in price of electricity:

POWER bills in Australia are surging at eight times the rate of price rises across the industrialised world.

A new electricity cost analysis by the International Energy Agency reveals that the average price rose 3.3 per cent in real terms across industrialised countries last year — 6.2 per cent for industry and 1.7 per cent for households. See: http://www.solarchoice.net.au

But electricity bills for Australian households rose 13.6 per cent in the same period, based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

Our own straw bale home in hot summers and cool winters does not have an air conditioner and only one small natural gas heater. Let us show you how you can pay for your straw bale home over 30 years by reducing your heating and cooling bills. Call us or email us any time:

HAPPY TO RETURN ALL CALLS.

OFFICE 02 69276027

MOBILE 0412 11 61 57

Email: jacksflat@gmail.com

If you are unable to call us then please include your phone number in your email and we will call you back as soon as is practical.

One of our flag ship builds the Lethbridge Winery and Residence both built using jumbo straw bales:

Another building that we are very proud of near Ballarat in Victoria a jumbo bale in-fill steel frame buildings with three pavilions:

Main Pavilion Jumbo Bales

HAPPY BALING AND LET US HOPE THAT THERE WILL BE MANY NEW STRAW BALE HOMES BUILT DURING 2012.

If you are interested in Huff ‘n’ Puff Constructions conducting a straw bale building workshop on your own home here is what you can expect to happen:

DAY ONE OF THE WORKSHOP NOTE THE EXCELLENT PREPARATION

DAY FIVE OF THE WORKSHOP AND THE TRUSSES ARE GOING UP!

Our next two straw bale building workshops:

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# 134 CANUNGRA SE Queensland

September 1st – 5th 2012

FOR DETAILS GO TO: UPCOMING WORKSHOPS.

FOR BOOKINGS GO HERE: Workshop Enrolment

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# 135 GANMAIN NEW SOUTH WALES

LABOUR DAY WEEKEND NSW September 29-October 3rd 2012

FOR DETAILS GO TO: UPCOMING WORKSHOPS.

FOR BOOKINGS GO HERE: Workshop Enrolment

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Our last straw bale building workshop:

# 133 WANGARATTA VICTORIA

ANZAC WEEK Saturday 21st April – Wednesday 25th April 2012.

Wonderful preparation greeted us

Stunning Result End of day 5

The whole story of this workshop is below in the following posts just scroll down the page.

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PLEASE CALL US IF YOU NEED ANY FURTHER INFORMATION 02 69276027

Latest Update here: Workshops Comments from Participants

NULAWALA COMMUNITY HALL VIDEO:

The UK’s Largest Prefabricated Straw Bale Building

One of the largest prefabricated straw bale buildings in Europe was officially opened at The University of Nottingham on Wednesday 8 February 2012.

Designed by Make Architects the new Gateway Building has been constructed with 1,954 straw bale panels from straw harvested on the University’s very own farmland – just 200 yards from the site. Make Architects have produced the video Story of Straw about the technology behind the £5.2m development.

Mongarlowe Workshop Day 5

David, Abie and Don applying render mesh

Last day of workshop # 131. We managed to apply 2 coats of lime render to the external straw bale walls and one coat to the internal walls. We still have the south wall to mesh and apply the filling coat which we will do in the morning. All in all we met our goals and then some. We had a great team and our client is very happy with the result of this custom workshop.

: Applying the render mesh in the second coat East wall.

: The South wall ready for the filler coat and mesh

: David, Abie and Don applying render mesh

: Well amazing result in 5 days

: The hardest worker Robbo!

: Thanks Robbo you did a great job

Mongarlowe Workshop Day 4

Susan brush cutter extroadinaire

Nearly there the pump arrived late afternoon they had car problems, just as well, as we were not quite ready for them andit gave us some breathing space to prepare for the first coat of render. We started the first coat at 6pm and all is going well.

The top plates are level and the building is square. The walls are straight and true and the internal brush cutting is now under way.

We are using rice straw which is a lot harder to trim into shape however Susan and Bill are doing a great job.