Construction Wire for a Straw Bale House

Video Transcript

"Talk about cutting the wall, and now that it’s clean and flush and flat, it’s ready for us to put the wire on. Typically you’re going to use regular construction wire or like a chicken wire with a round pattern. I didn’t happen to have any of that laying around, so I’m just going to give you an example, show you with some square wielded wire. Normally most of the rolls come in three or four foot rolls, and you’ll roll from a window or some kind of door space or an end. And you’ll roll all the way around the bottom of the house. Then you’ll roll again on top of that, over layering it just a little bit so that the wires are together, so you can tie the wires together and keep them solid that way. You don’t have to use wire if you don’t want to. If you want to eliminate anymore EMF conduct around the outside of the house, you can leave the wire out and stucco will still stick to the straw. But this is just an extra-structural preparation. So what you’re going to do is- and actually this is not the way you really should do it- it’s going to come around from the side like a wall or a window or door, and so we’re going to wrap it like this. You’re get up to the door- you’re going to nail the wire up to your base or frame or whatever you have to nail to, and then you can start pinning the nails with the straw pins. And you might need a wood mallet to get it in there…might not. And again, this is another reason that you want your bale as tight as possible, so that your pins and everything stay firm in them. If it’s too loose, it just wants to pull out like this is doing right here. So let’s see if we can get it to stay. "