Staking the Bales on a Straw Bale House

Video Transcript

"You also want to stake your bales- I forgot in the very beginning to show you this- we’re kind of going through it real quickly here, but you also want to stake your bales together from the top of your wall- once you get your wall stacked together completely, with long rods of rebar like this or you can even use bamboo, because bamboo is extremely strong- it’s just as strong as the rebar. And you stake it at an angle, so it’s piercing through several bales at a time, and it’s just an extra thing to add in and to sew the bales together. So you just kind of feel your way through. And if you have pound it through, that’s what you do. So we’re going to pound it I guess. You actually want to do a little bit more of an angle than this- I probably should have started it more from the corner up here- would’ve gone through better piercing it. But what it does is it just kind of holds these bales tighter together. So, just wanted to show you how to make those more solid. "