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    Building with Straw Bales: A Step-by-step Guide

    By Barbara Jones

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    About this ebook

    This book explains in straightforward terms the principles of straw-bale building for self-builders, architects and construction industry professionals.

    Straw-bale buildings are cost-effective, easy to build and are highly energy efficient, enabling you to design and build beautiful, environmentally friendly buildings. Written with non-experts in mind, this practical book takes you through everything you need to know in an easy, accessible way:
    ? The benefits of building with straw bales
    ? Design principles
    ? Building with straw bales
    ? Finishes: lime and clay plasters
    ? Planning and permission
    ? Building regulations

    This revised and expanded third edition brings the book up to date and includes lots of stunning full-colour photographs throughout to illustrate the design and build process. In this full colour edition of the book Grand Designs described as "the essential guide to straw-bale building", Barbara Jones uses her years of experience in natural building methods to guide self-builders and architects using straw as a sustainable material for a diverse range of comfortable and environmentally friendly buildings.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher UIT Cambridge Ltd.
    Release dateApr 1, 2015
    ISBN9780857842299
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    • 5/5
      A very practical book explaining what your options are when you want to build a house using strawbales. Detailed construction tips, even including how-to's on making your own plaster from the base materials.Compared to the American strawbale books this one pays much more attention on how to keep the straw dry in the northern climate, and a technical but understandable explanation of why renovations with the wrong choice of material have led to moisture problems.