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The best option is to take care in placing the bales and weed whack them once they are all stacked. In the plastering process, you can use rods and darbies to straighten the walls even more. The finish product can be very straight, but will likely never be as straight as a conventional home. I think you will find that this is actually yet another advantage over conventional homes. The straight walls in conventional homes can feel sterile while the slight undulations in SB walls offer a connection to the “real World” where nothing is perfectly straight and sterile. The comfort that imparts on the occupants is priceless.
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I recently received an email asking if it was possible to get the interior walls of a SB house flat and smooth. I have included the email and my response to it below.
Question: Are there any alternatives to finishing the interior walls of a straw bale home with plaster? More specifically, can I do drywall or something similar that gives me the crisp, smooth, flat surface typical in most homes?
Answer: You could do the drywall on the interior of the house, but it would be a huge waste of time as there would be many extra steps necessary to achieve this.
The best option is to take care in placing the bales and weed whack them once they are all stacked. In the plastering process, you can use rods and darbies to straighten the walls even more. The finish product can be very straight, but will likely never be as straight as a conventional home. I think you will find that this is actually yet another advantage over conventional homes. The straight walls in conventional homes can feel sterile while the slight undulations in SB walls offer a connection to the “real World” where nothing is perfectly straight and sterile. The comfort that imparts on the occupants is priceless.
Andrew
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Andrew Morison is a licensed contractor specializing in straw bale and green construction. He has shown thousands of people how to build their own straw bale projects through his comprehensive series of instructional straw bale, concrete foundation, and plastering DVDs. You can check these out at http://www.LearnStrawBale.com.
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