I built my passive solar straw bale house with earthen plasters in 2000 for K (will most likely cost more today, depending on many factors). This is an overview of the house; it is extremely energy-efficient. My electric bills are about per month.
I built my passive solar straw bale house with earthen plasters in 2000 for K (will most likely cost more today, depending on many factors). This is an overview of the house; it is extremely energy-efficient. My electric bills are about per month.
Wonderful! Many compliments for the idea and the house 😀
Wow your amazing !!
What a beautiful story and what a beautiful, hardworking lady. Hats off!
@bill65761 I think you are asking if you could build an earth berm around this house or dig the house into the earth for added insulation. You wouldn’t want to dig a straw bale house into the earth; It is important to keep straw dry. But you can build hybrid homes where part is earth-berm and part is straw bale.
Can this be earth-bermed?
hello.i am from far away, wanted to tell you that i like your house lot and i want to ask you about the flooring of the house, how it was done, it looks very good. i wonder if it is also ecologic.i would be thankfull if you could tell me more about the flooring inside the living room.my email address is g_manthor@yahoo.com if you think you need it. thank you.
That’s amazing!
I am intrigued by this idea, this was a really wonderful and inovative thing to do. And I love how the final outcome of your hard work looks like. AMAZING. I believe I will think the same direction and will find out some way how to make a similar project. Though, just after buying a flat in building estate and got a mortgage on my back… but I’ll find out something… You are great, Strawlady(:
beautiful work! i have been building straw bale houses for about six years now, and i am firmly convinced its the only way to go.
WHO could even THINK of giving this a ‘thumb-down’ !!?? YOU are one AMAZING Lady !!!
@catexan Thanks – good to hear from you. I have great respect for what you do now!
Beautiful Job! As a General Contractor and Electrical Contractor I can appreciate how daunting this must have looked at the beginning. Nicely Done.
your a true inspiration,l hope to do this soon.
@DengarTime Thank you. Yes, I was given a list of 23 inspections to pass during the construction period at each phase of the building. This comes when you get your permit to build and at the end of all the inspections, I got the occupancy permit. That then enabled me to get a mortgage and pay back all the money I borrowed to get the house built.
If it helps anyone to understand inspections, When building anything new. You have to get it inspected each step along the way, for example, putting in a footer in takes 3 steps itself, The footers forms put in, after gravel for drainage is added in, and a final time once the footer is poured to make sure it was done right. Does not make sense to some, but if done right the first time. Saves you money, and will last at least your lifetime, if not also your kids. Least, Corry PA inspected each.
So beautiful, in so many ways. I’m really impressed!
@strawladyhouse Well it looks like you did a magnificint job
@MrEhud77 You are absolutely right about the symbol, but I just used it because I liked it. =)
@strawladyhouse lol, Thought the zia symbol was indicating NM, guess not
@MrEhud77 The Tucson, Arizona part
What part of NM is this?
The straw is completely dry – it is not hay – packed very tightly and completely covered with thick plasters. It is so strong and tight it has held up my roof for ten years now. The bales weigh about 90 pounds each. There is no smell.
Well I’m used to living in a city so I just have one question, doesn’t that house smell or has the straw already dried so much that it doesn’t smell anything and is really hard?
23 inspections!? WHAT!?
wow!!!