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Finish plaster | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. All the essential plastering tools. We’ve been trying to get as flat and as smooth a finish as reasonably possible. We’re still not at the level of a drywall finish, but not bad for an amateur. Wet wall in the process of being smoothed. The key to getting a good finish has been working the plaster at the right moisture content as it dries to get it when it’s firm, but still movable without the shoulders taking too much of a hit. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.
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Ewan Briggs | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. Author Archives: Ewan Briggs. In a passive solar house you need to have plenty of thermal mass that is internally exposed – i.e. you can see it. Having a thermally massive floor like concrete that is then covered with an insulator like carpet or a wooden floor makes it much less effective. The rough layer going down – using screed rails to keep a consistent thickness. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 18, 2016. All the essential plastering tools. We’ve ...
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Ceilings | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. Back inside, ceilings are the next job. We’re using macrocarpa tongue and groove, the same as the soffits. The boards are nailed to the ceiling battens leaving a void up to the intello membrane that houses our wiring and downlights. Ceiling in the master bedroom. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 18, 2016. Finish plaster →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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Weatherboards and T&G soffits | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. Weatherboards and T&G soffits. Another job on the outside was putting in the soffits and weatherboards eitherside of the clerestory windows. We’ve used macrocarpa for the soffits, which has enough natural durability to use in this location without treatment. Initially we’d planned to paint these, but they looked pretty good without, and with it being harder to remove later we decided to leave them unpainted for now. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. April 19, 2016.
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Catching up | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. Okay, we’ve got a lot of catching up to do! Despite the lack of activity on the blog we’ve been busy at the house making progress. I’m hoping to catch up in some more detail over the next few weeks, but in the meantime here’s a quick peek…. Insulation for the ceiling. Lime and cement plastering with Dad. Building the internal windowsills. Barley growing out of our internal walls. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. April 19, 2016. Weatherboards and T&G soffits.
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21st Century Straw | Building a modern straw bale home | Page 2
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Building a modern straw bale home. Due to the variable nature of the materials we’re using in our plasters – particularly the clay which has come from our house site – we need to do tests on various recipies to get the optimum mix. Testing is pretty straightforward, we make up plasters of different mixes, put them up on the wall/floor and then once they’ve dried get stuck in with a screwdriver and do some destructive testing. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. April 17, 2016. April 17, 2016. With su...
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Grey and black water systems | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. Grey and black water systems. In the wastewater department we’ve decided to keep the grey and black water separate coming out of the house (blackwater being that which flushes out of the toilets, and the rest being grey water). This gives us more options down the track for treating and using the two different streams for composting, irrigation etc. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. April 17, 2016. Weatherboards and T&G soffits →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Create...
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Floor plastering | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. In a passive solar house you need to have plenty of thermal mass that is internally exposed – i.e. you can see it. Having a thermally massive floor like concrete that is then covered with an insulator like carpet or a wooden floor makes it much less effective. The rough layer going down – using screed rails to keep a consistent thickness. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 18, 2016. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details belo...
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Rainwater system | 21st Century Straw
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Building a modern straw bale home. We’re offgrid from a water point of view, like most of rural New Zealand, so we’re using rainwater captured from our roof to provide our potable water. Typically buried tanks are used near to the house that has a pump that provides the pressure to the house on demand. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. April 17, 2016. Grey and black water systems →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
