Light Clay-Straw Mountain Home
This feature project is of a solar, light clay-straw house in Western Colorado with all the bells and whistles.
Jeff RuppertJuly 3, 2014
Home-Made Hydraulic Lime
We like to share this is the type of information because the context of lime plaster is so broad and interesting. It is important to keep in mind your goals when choosing materials. The information below creates a connection between two areas of lime plaster that are very important to…
Jeff RuppertMarch 5, 2014
Straw House Patent (Feuillette House Follow-Up)
As an update to this post about the Feuillette House in France, here is a patent in the United States for straw bale construction. It was filed on June 6, 1921 and is a very interesting read for the bale construction history buffs out there. The author was Emile Feuillette himself and…
Jeff RuppertJanuary 8, 2014
Finishing Bale Walls with Siding
A little known fact in the bale building realm is that a handful of people scattered across different continents have experimented with the idea of finishing their bale walls with wood or some type of manufactured siding. The technical term for siding over a bale wall assembly is a “rain…
Jeff RuppertAugust 29, 2013
Sill Pan Design Detail
Slope pan flashing to outside. Included in TLS #49 (Myths and Realities, Spring 2005) was a discussion of ways to deal with moisture at the bottom of windows. David Eisenberg shared a written design detail for a pan under the window to carry water away from rather than down the wall. We wanted to share…
Jeff RuppertJuly 31, 2012
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