no boating for a year
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no boating for a year
last time i did anything remotely boaty was hayling island last year----i have been working 7 days a week with diana on our new project----we are building a straw bale building and i need to borrow or buy a pallet strapping tool for compressing the bales-----if anyone has one i would be much obliged----regards blue-----thegreenescape.co.uk
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Re: no boating for a year
Straw Bale eh?
Best of luck with that.
Do not forget a Seagull Loft as 1st extension.
B
Best of luck with that.
Do not forget a Seagull Loft as 1st extension.
B
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Re: no boating for a year
Our neighbors built a straw bale house. It was what is referred to as " timber framed" in North America, perhaps post and beam elsewhere. The straw was used as the wall infill material, very good insulating value. As far as I know, it didn't require extra compressing beyond what the baler produced. It is very energy efficient.
Re: no boating for a year
its not an infill building ---the weight of the roof bears directly onto the stawbales but to speed up compression of the bales and make the building stable i am going to use ratchet straps and pallet strapping----the bales compress by approximately 1/2 inch per bale----------------anyone that knows my wife will realise the difficulty of trying to slip a seagull loft into the building-------regards blue