grand designs is a guilty pleasure of mine, and by far the best episode was the one with the woodsman guy where he (and a few other people he was teaching) built himself a house with timber frame from local trees with straw bales for the walls coated in local clay. sustainable and quick and cheap to put up, but well insulating and looked amazing (and still looked amazing in the follow up episode)
You can't get a sterile house period, keep it dry and clean and maintained it'll last way longer then the piles of cardboard and vynal we call hoses now
Straw is grain stalks without the grain pods. Hay is diverse dried grasses.
If you plaster over the straw, you don't have to worry about it, because it's densely packed and fills up the space between the walls. In conventional building there's just a bunch of empty space in the walls- and guess where all the house spiders and centipedes and stuff come from?
grand designs is a guilty pleasure of mine, and by far the best episode was the one with the woodsman guy where he (and a few other people he was teaching) built himself a house with timber frame from local trees with straw bales for the walls coated in local clay. sustainable and quick and cheap to put up, but well insulating and looked amazing (and still looked amazing in the follow up episode)
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I've looked up pictures of a few online, including their interiors and now I kinda want one
Do the hay bales not get infested with bugs and mice?
Wood houses do too. You can't get a sterile house with organic materials.
You can't get a sterile house period, keep it dry and clean and maintained it'll last way longer then the piles of cardboard and vynal we call hoses now
A house is always a kind of eco-system.
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I too can relate a lot to lovecrafts "Rats In the Walls"
Straw is grain stalks without the grain pods. Hay is diverse dried grasses.
If you plaster over the straw, you don't have to worry about it, because it's densely packed and fills up the space between the walls. In conventional building there's just a bunch of empty space in the walls- and guess where all the house spiders and centipedes and stuff come from?