The Comprehensive Guide to Building with Straw Bales: Post and Beam Infill
...with
Andrew Morrison
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The Comprehensive Guide to Building with Straw Bale
- Introduction to Building with Straw Bales
- Tips and Techniques for Framing Your Straw Bale Structure
- Tips and Techniques for Preparing to Build Your Straw Bale Walls- How to Build Your Toe-Ups
- How to Continue a Course of Bales Over a Closet or Tall Window- All You Need to Know About Box Beam Construction
- Stuffing straw into windows
- Electrical Details
- Cleaning Up the Straw Bale Walls Prior to Putting Up Your Wire Mesh
- How to Put Windows Into A Straw Bale Building
- All the Tips and Techniques for Applying Wire Mesh to Your Straw Bale Walls
- The Interior: Windows, Corners, and Rounded Details to Your Straw Bale Walls
- How to create a nice rounded look to your inside corners with metal lathu2026 Learn the ways to prevent injuries as this material is also called blood lath!
- Plumbing, Cabinet Hanging, Interior Wall Partitions, High Rain Environments, and Other Considerations
- Different techniques to protect your bale walls in the unlikely situation of a roof leak.
(about 90 minutes)
How To Lime Plaster with Hydraulic Lime
- Introduction to Lime Plaster
- Learn the best method to protect your wood beams and posts prior to plastering.
- What you must do to protect the concrete floors during plastering. Plaster can stain, so keep your floors protected.... This technique will save a lot of clean up time after you are finished plastering.
- The best techniques for protecting your windows prior to plastering.
- What you must do to keep your trim details protected - No sticky residue on your trim if you follow these directions.
- Learn the correct techniques to prepare the bales 24 hours before applying the scratch coat of plaster. Using this technique will minimize the likelihood of your plaster from cracking.
- The correct method for preparing the scratch coat prior to your brown coat, and your brown coat prior to the finish coat. You simply must follow these directions to make your plaster application go smoothly with the minimum amount of cracking.
- The best method for protecting your strawbale building as you plaster from the potentially damaging wind and sun. doing this will prevent your plaster from failing and cracking.
- The best tool to use to create the best, smoothest, and most even plaster.
- All of the advantages of hydraulic lime plaster versus traditional Portland cement plaster and stucco.
- The Scratch Coat- Your Initial Coat of Plaster
- The Brown Coat Application- Your Second Coat of Plaster
- All the Techniques to Use to Get a Smooth Finish on Different Aspects of Your Structure
- The Finish Coat- Your Final Plaster Application
(about 90 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on March 30, 2005 in
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