Earth or Clay Plastering Guide
Bringing together our research and experiences of clay plastering (or ‘earthen plastering’) we have gathered together a fairly comprehensive set of resources that should be useful for anyone into diy renovation, using clay plaster, building with straw, or interested in environmentally sound natural building materials.
To make it easier to read through, we have broken this information down into a sort of illustrated step-by-step of what we did when plastering our workshop’s straw bale walls. Navigate through it using the links to the right, or alternatively, you can also download a 35 page printer friendly pdf document of the guide, by right clicking here, and selecting save as…
We would encourage you, the reader, to post comments (using the comment box at the bottom of most pages) of your experiences, using clay plaster techniques and materials – doing so boosts the usefulness of this resource for everyone :)
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October 19th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Some day would love to build a straw bale home..
February 15th, 2014 at 1:13 am
we are building a straw house currently. please fee free to follow progress on “stow straw ecobuild” which is a facebook page
August 5th, 2017 at 1:43 pm
On my to-do-list … hope to see some good advice here!
July 17th, 2019 at 9:18 am
We are building a straw-bale house we are using the bale wall to come from the joists d you have any information on this kind of wall most of them seem to stand on gravel ours is joists over the oak sills.
July 17th, 2019 at 9:20 am
Ps I wondered if you had any information on this type of straw bale wall and frame. Dennis