Straw Bale Roof Options

The straw bales produce a building with deep reveals and a quirky character.

Straw bale roof options.

The amount of time effort cost and embodied energy in such a task seems to me to heavily outweigh the benefits. There are many options and combinations of options to choose from so for the sake of this being a simple primer we will go over some of the most. Catherine wanek after growing up in las cruces nm catherine lived in various places until she settled in los angeles to work as an assistant director in hollywood film production. It just has to be kept dry.

Straw bale design and the roof. This video focuses on the various roofing options available to you when buildin. Why use bales as a roof insulation. Although the use of straw is widespread in roof construction in the form of thatching straw bales as a modern construction method are gaining in popularity.

If two string bales yield an r value of r 40 debated by the way across the 18 direction then one would only achieve an r 40 roof at best perhaps a. The straw bale construction method is popular with self builders and the environmentally conscious. Roofs for strawbale buildings. The weight of bales within a roof has to be a very serious consideration.

As i look at this i think a roof would almost be better with loose fill chopped straw inside of a 2 6 roof framework. Lured by the beauty of new mexico catherine purchased the black range lodge in the 1980s with a vision of making movies there and developing the property into a lush permaculture.