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What is Environmental Building?
The Benefits of Building a Straw Bale House
Supplies Needed for Environmental Building
Preparing to Build a Straw Bale House
Using Rebar for your Straw Bale House
Professional Environmental Building Tips
How to Set the Straw Bales to Construct a Straw Bale House
Prepping Straw Bales for Stucco
Construction Wire for a Straw Bale House
Tightening the Straw Bales of your Straw Bale House
Staking the Bales on a Straw Bale House
Various Finishes for your Straw Bale House
Mixing Cement for your Straw Bale House
Applying the Base Coat of Cement Stucco on a Straw Bale House
Creating Niches in your Straw Bale Home
Creative Ideas for Straw Bale Houses
Applying the Last Coat of Cement Stucco to your Straw Bale House
Summary: Want to build a fort for the kids? Learn how to prepare straw bales for stucco, in this free video.
Shelley Jones is a professional environmental builder and decorator who has years of experience designing and building straw bale homes. She has also taught classes on straw bale...read more
"Now we need to prep the bales which really means cleaning them up for the stucco so that they’re flat or the shape that we want them to be. And the best way to do this with straw, believe it or not, one of our favorite tools is a weed wacker or a chainsaw. And with a chainsaw, you can cut into the center of the bales without cutting too far into the wires and cut beautiful things like niches and things you can plaster on the inside of your home. So anything that you’re doing any deep cutting, you use the chainsaw, and anything with just cleaning the bales up and making them prepped and ready to put the wire on and do the stucco, you can use the weed wacker. "
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