BUILDING A NEW HOUSE YOURSELF - PROBLEMS TO AVOID - Failure to Properly Understand/Observe Local Zoning and Building Code Regulations Though we made a concerted effort to read the regulations and made many long distance calls to various county dep... |
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"Paradise Journal" by Jim and Mindy Phypers The following account is based on excerpts from a journal kept by Jim and Mindy Phypers during an extraordinary journey to New Zealand in the early 1980's. Beginning as a two week honeymoon, th... |
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STAINING LIME PLASTER WITH FERROUS (IRON) SULFATE Ferrous Sulfate comes in 50 pound bags (for about $16 each) and is available from most stores which sell fertilizer -- get the water soluable kind in powdered form. It is the main ingredient in Iron... |
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New Straw Bale House at Solar Haven - Design and Construction Details - (with maximum economy in mind) Basic Design: "Load-bearing" straw bale design; adobe ...... |
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LIME STUCCO PLASTERING WHY USE LIME STUCCO INSTEAD OF CEMENT STUCCO? Lime sticks extremely well to the surface of the straw bales, and chicken wire is therefore not required as it is when using a cement stucco. Portland cement will not stic... |
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SOLAR HAVEN Straw Bale House Construction Pictures - Part 4 - - SHOOTING LIME STUCCO PLASTER - INSTALLING IN-FLOOR RADIANT HEATING - INSTALLING ADOBE BLOCK FLOOR - BUILDING WALL PARTITIONS WITH STRAW AND CLAY (COB) - Stuccoing the Interior Walls: a pure l ... |
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Solar Haven Straw Bale Wall Raising Workshop (May 12-13, 2001) The barn raising tradition of old comes alive again. Attempting to line up a bale exactly over an "all-thread" rod before lowering it onto the wall. The rods connect dow ... |
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Building Our Straw Bale House At Solar Haven - PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL PHASES OF CONSTRUCTION - Trench and rebarring for the footer Poured footer, two ...... |
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CHIEF SEATTLE'S TREATY ORATION of 1854 "In 1851 Seattle, chief of the Suquamish and other Indian tribes around Washington's Puget Sound, delivered what is considered to be one of the most beautiful and profound environmental statements ever made. The c... |
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- NATURAL BUILDING PROJECTS - IMPORTANT: Click on the title or pictures for each project for a detailed description of how it was done plus many more photogrphs. - NEW STRAW BALE HOUSE - - 1200 square foot greenhouse - - RET... |
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