This is a straw bale shed at the spitafields city farm in London
I was one of the particiapants and I edited it into a short video
thx for watching.
Build a shed from straw bales
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This is a straw bale shed at the spitafields city farm in London
I was one of the particiapants and I edited it into a short video
thx for watching.
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Looks like a good way to have billions of bugs infest your property…….
Thanks, this was great
Which is a good thing 🙂
This is an adaptation of cob housing. You make a clay plaster to go over the straw bales which seals them up from the weather. Then you do a lime wash over the dry clay and it will keep out any insects or vermin. These walls are incredibly dense and when the clay plaster drys its as hard as stone. The straw bale houses have been around since the 1800s in the US and Cob houses have been around for thousands of years and there are many all over Europe that are 800-900 years old and still in use.
Compress the bails using Hazel stakes much more effective, and better for the enviroment as opposed to using metal wiring like that which is used in this video.
Who is the instructor? Does he do workshops in straw bale construction?
You completely missed the boat here. Your comment didn’t address the logical question of why not a sloped roof to shed rain better. Anyway – the commentary on the video was explaining the insulative properties, it was quite obvious that a shed need not be heated. But a living quarters would be heated by some sort of means even in simple 0* winters of GB. I was asking why the commentary should crow about insulation when heating wasn’t a necessary topic for a shed.
i used to go here as a child add the nostalgia to the sad soundind flute song and i was in tears its a shame i live so far away great vid very interesting keep up the good work
the roof will leak for sure ,to fix it use a hand torch with a flat adapter , thick gloves ,peel the lap 1 inch n put the flame in the lap, move slowly then push it down with a trowel , make a small bleed n so on , the roof slop is way to flat , the way you did is fine if the slope is better then 30 degree angle n up
Nice video 🙂
Not just the content. Liked the music too. Sally gardens right.
You know dude with the giant hammer LARPs on weekends!
Sorry but the Irish romantic film style background music is really off-putting and I really wanted to learn about this building!
Death by hay fever.
Geez he rambles on so much I find myself watching with the volume turned down.
Could you repost this without the music so that I can hear the explanation/instructions?
why the music?? can´t hear what he´s saying
please redo the video without the music
+gardenman3 Seconded, It’s not a romance on the Titanic, it’s instructional. The music is ridiculous.
And people talking in background!
If you used mud or manure it would have been even more organic but great idea guys, your video showed a great community spirit.
Alice lime is organic. It’s made from shells.
Please, do NOT build this way. the wire mesh hung over the straw causes the plaster to separate from the straw and make a damp rot spot on the wall. The straw is plenty rough to accept plaster directly. Spray a primer coat on first, then daub or trowel the plaster to a finish depth.
The big reason for lime plaster is NOT flexibility but breath-ability. The walls need to let vapor through but shed water.
would you consider putting something within the layers of straw?.
Yeah the metal oxidises. It’s a huge no no.
A runny, clay slip mix (consistency of single cream) applied with a bristle brush would give your render coat enough of a ‘key’
Please, Please redo this video without the music!! The music is beautiful but I want to hear whats being said. Thanks.