Round Summer House With Straw Roof

Sep 3 2015 round strawbale house.

Round summer house with straw roof.

0800 999 6995 now. For some reason the straw bales on that particular project were very difficult to bend into shape. I love being outside and have wanted to build a summerhouse in the garden for ages. Normally you can set one end of a bale on a raised object such as a small log stomp the side of the bale in a few places and end up with a curved bale.

How to build a bespoke summerhouse from reclaimed wood and save hundreds. We chose the framed house with infill walls type of building. See more ideas about cob house house natural building. Summer houses insulated summerhouses pressure treated toughened glass.

But we had little concept. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in. Traditionally a green roof would use birch bark lasting some 30 40 years. Above the geo textile is a layer of 15cm of straw insulation covered by another layer of geo textile on which loose soil a drainage pipe 6 and 10cm deep.

Last year i decided to get it together. Large surrey show rooms. A good time to use this roof is obviously when the budget is tight or if you want a larger exposed side of the structure as in a greenhouse or in cooler climates. Inspired by a round straw house in the summer of 1977 we began to build an octagonal stone house using the slip form method popularized by helen and scott nearing.

For straw bale this can pose a problem in keeping the walls free from direct moisture. It also tends to leave the high side of the house vulnerable to the elements. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw water reed sedge cladium mariscus rushes heather or palm branches layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions as insulation. One reason was because our outer straw walls are reasonably complex and we didn t want the stress of having to get all the walls up and roof on before rain this usually involves getting help in to get it done quickly.

For a first time builder a yurt style roof like cyric30 suggested would probably be easiest.