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Straw Bale HousesStraw Bale House Construction.. Information andinstructions on building your straw bale home.Find more Straw Bale Houses Here:Straw Bale Houses"Straw-bale construction is a building method that uses straw bales as structural elements, insulation, or both.It is commonly used in natural building. It has advantages over some conventional building system because of its cost and easyavailability, and its high insulation value.Although grasses and straw have been in use in a range of ways in building since pre-history around the world, their incorporationin machine-manufactured modular bales seems to date back to the early 20th century in the Midwestern United States,particularly the sand-hills of Nebraska, where grass was plentiful and other building materials (even quality sods) were not.Straw bale building typically consists of stacking a series of rows of bales (often in running-bond) on a raised footing or foundation,with a moisture barrier between. Bale walls are often tied together with pins of bamboo, rebar, or wood (internal to the bales or ontheir faces), or with surface wire meshes, and then stuccoed or plastered, either with cementaceous mixes, lime-basedformulations or earth/clay renders. Bale buildings can either have a structural frame of other materials, with bales between(simply serving as insulation and stucco substrate), referred to as 'infill',or the bales may actually provide the support foropenings and roof, referred to as "load-bearing" or "Nebraska-style", or a combination of framing and load-bearing may beemployed, referred to a "hybrid" straw bale.Typically, bales created on farms with mobile machinery have been used ("field-bales"), but recentlyhigher-density "recompressed" bales (or "straw-blocks") are increasing the loads that may be supported; where field balesmight support around 600 pounds per linear foot of wall, the high density bales bear up to 4,000 lb./lin.ft. and more. And thebasic bale-building method is now increasingly being extended to bound modules of other often-recycled materials, includingtire-bales, as well as those of cardboard, paper, plastics and used carpeting, and to bag-contained "bales" of wood-chips,rice-hulls, etc."This information found:Wikipedia EncylopediaFind more Straw Bale Houses Here:Straw Bale HousesStraw Bale Houses Power By RingsurfStraw Bale Houseshome -forum -joinprevious -next -memberspowered by RingsWorld.comThis site is part of an Internet Site-Ring Community hosted at World of Newave Previous - List: strawbale - Home: strawbale - Forum: strawbale - Join - Next
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