Straw bale installation
In this section we will cover straw bale installation including:
- The formula for bale placement
- Timber components above and below straw bales
- Compression of straw bales using polyester strapping, including the order of compression
- How to use a tensioning tool with the compression strapping
- The process of compressing a straw bale wall
- Specifications and dimensions of bottom boxing, intermediate boxing and top boxing
- Why is the bottom boxing narrower than the width of the straw bales.
- How to stabilize high straw bale walls
- How to join top boxing at corners
- The engineering principle behind the design of the 180mm wide top boxing
- Straightening straw bale walls with a bale hammer
- Compression of bales below windows
- How to avoid cracking of render around windows
- Leveling the sill of a window opening
- Alternative compression systems and why we use polyester compression strapping
- Compression of straw bale walls to a gable end
- Top boxing over bales at Gable ends
- Connection of internal timber framed walls to straw bale walls.