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Adding Utility Lines After Plaster

By Andrew Morrison in Construction Details, Lime, Plastering, Retrofit, Tips and Trade Secrets 6

Adding utility lines to your wall after plaster has been applied to your straw bale house is not as hard as you might think. The sooner you realize your mistake (leaving out the utility line) the easier it is to fix. If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, consider this: You raise the bale walls […]

Money Saving Strategies for Straw Bale Construction

By Andrew Morrison in Helping Each Other/Personal Stories, Retrofit 18

I recently wrote to someone who is trying to find an inexpensive way to build with bales. The intention is to wrap existing houses with bales in the cheapest way possible. There are no codes that need to be met on the reservation in question and a few dollars saved on each house could mean […]