Two months later...
... and our nail gun is finally back from repair! #strawbalehouse #strawbalewoodlands
Cast adrift
The connections that braced the strawbale against the grungelow have been severed. The strawbale is now facing the vagaries of the...
We're still standing
Storm Angus huffed and puffed last night but failed to blow our straw house down. The sea wall at Swanage didn't fare so well. The storm...
A cover up
Before we stack straw bales on it the plywood sub-floor has been covered with a layer of 2mm Proguard protection boards. #subfloor...
Building site yoga
It's taken a good few hours and over 600 screws to screw down the plywood sub-floor. It's more common to nail the boards down but the...
Housework
Loose straw is a fire risk so it needs to be regularly swept up. We've got a fire extinguisher just in case a spark from some electrical...
Galvanized
The plan was to use an anti-corrosive, sealing and waterproofing tape on the bolts connecting the beams to the crucks. Having tried it I...
Sou'westerlies
Most of our wet and windy weather comes from the south west so it's the western end of the building that we have concentrated on...
Deja vu
To maneuver the beams into position it was necessary to remove the battening on one side of tarp. And so, once the battening had been...
Here's one prepared earlier
Cruck Cottage in nearby Briantspuddle was known to be occupied in 1620. I wonder if our strawbale cruck framed house will still be...
