{"id":11,"date":"2011-10-30T23:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T23:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-09-14T05:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:04:32","slug":"straw-building","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Straw Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11\" class=\"elementor elementor-11\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-151b181d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"151b181d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e15e630\" data-id=\"1e15e630\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2cc43a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2cc43a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/InsideStraw.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-591\" src=\"http:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/InsideStraw.gif\" alt=\"Bale walls before plastering\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/InsideStraw.gif 200w, https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/InsideStraw-100x100.gif 100w, https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/InsideStraw-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/straw_window.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/straw_window.jpg\" alt=\"straw_window\" width=\"200\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>Bale walls before plastering \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Porthole of Truth<\/p><p><strong>Straw Building\u00a0<\/strong>Our studio walls are composed of bales of straw. Construction details below. Our building was built by Ted Wallace and Janet stacked the bales on the wall you see!<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Even Temperature<\/em> &#8211; one can stand in the doorway on a hot summer day with arms outstretched and feel the difference!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Acoustic Insulation<\/em> \u2013 with delight we note the highway noise is hardly noticeable even with the windows and door open and we don&#8217;t hear a thing in the winter. Just the music.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Hand made<\/em> \u2013 feels like the place for a hand work studio with hand plastered walls<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Deep Window Sills<\/em> &#8211; make us feel cozy and leave lots of room for plants and decorations.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Construction Details for the Barefoot Handweaving Studio\/Gallery<\/strong><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">begun in August 2002, moved in all complete except last finish coat outside Feb 1st 2003<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">made of wheat straw bales from about 90 km south in Creston<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">13 m (42 feet) x 9.75 m (32 feet) outside dimensions, 3.48 m (10 foot) high walls on the ground floor<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">6.5 m (24 feet) x 9.75 (32 feet) second story<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">R 40 of chopped paper insulation blown into the roof and the half second story\u00a0 <em>Insulator has a hand woven duvet cover in trade<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">post and beam construction with truss roof \u2013 posts were the peeled trees from the site, two are exposed inside and one is a wildlife tree with woodpecker holes still showing<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">slab on grade foundations with footings all around of ~ 50 cm (2 feet) &#8211; continuous pour<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">insulated under slab and along sides down into the earth with 6 cm (2\u201d) foam<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Last troweling of the floor added iron oxide so the top 5-10 cm is a rich earthy red.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u201cladder\u201d of 2 x 4s laid below walls on the slab, fiberglass insulation \u2013 flood precaution<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">standard size wheat straw bales stacked like bricks, pinned with steel rebar occasionally<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">stucco wire \u201cstapled\u201d (home made bent wire) onto the inside and outside of the bales, Kootenay Forge &#8216;needle&#8217; used to secure the outside wire to the inside wire in places<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">hand plastered using cement\/clay stucco, 2 undercoats in the fall, one finish coat in the spring. Last interior coat was white sand and white cement\u00a0 &#8211; <em>Howard Sempf of Riondel did an excellent job<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">outside troweled rough, then sprayed and sponged with ferrous sulfate to give a &#8216;straw&#8217; colour\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">inside was stain that was a mix of \u2018terracotta\u2019 and \u2018sandstone\u2019 \u2013 also &#8216;straw&#8217; colour.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">heating is a heat pump and cooling is not needed even during the hottest summer<\/span><\/li><\/ul><pre><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bale walls before plastering \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Porthole of Truth Straw Building\u00a0Our studio walls are composed of bales of straw. Construction details below. Our building was built by Ted Wallace and Janet stacked the bales on the wall you see! Benefits Even Temperature &#8211; one can stand in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barefoothandweaving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}