This 3-day course is for anyone interested in building with straw bales – a cheap, natural, healthy and low impact way of making your own house. This is a practical building course and involves lots of hands-on workshops.
What will the Building with straw bales course cover?
Learn how to build a straw bale structure. This intensive three-day course is designed to inspire you and give you the basic skills required for straw bale construction. The course covers building walls with straw bales and basic carpentry. We will try to avoid power tools and people of all abilities are welcome. You will also learn about the environmental and practical benefits of constructing buildings using straw bales.
During the course you will learn:
• How to build straw bale walls
• How to work with straw bales, including shaping, cutting & tying
• Learn about detailing for doors and windows, and how to construct roof structures.
• Examine existing straw-bale buildings, built using different methods