Touring across Douglas, Ozark and Howell counties to view successful completion of Straw Bale Homes with the Straw Bale Construction Initiative with Top of the Ozarks, RC&D.
The End is near!
That would be the end of the Strawbale Housing Initiative Program that has been made available through Top of the Ozarks RC&D in partnership with HUD and U.M. Missouri Extension services. We will be announcing plans for the tour on radio stations in Ava, Missouri, Houston, Missouri and West Plains, Missouri as [...]
On Friday October 16th Tom Arth and I were invited to do a presentation on strawbale houses at the Thayer Rotary Club luncheon.
I gave a PowerPoint presentation on the five houses finished in the grant program funded by HUD and administrated by the Top of the Ozarks RC&D Inc. in a partnership with the University [...]
I’ve mentioned using rice hulls for use as insulaton. They are definitely worth consideration. The biggest negative that I can see is handling. When compared to bagged cellulose, the cost to package rice hulls in neat little bags is too high.
Today’s bag of cellulose insulation costs approximately 65 cents per cubic foot after the bag [...]
“Green” is a whole life style, not just solar panels on the roof and driving a hybrid car. It all starts with common sense, eating right, living clean and using what works most efficiently. Using only what you need; not all you can afford.
Building green in the true sense doesn’t make a big splash. It [...]
We’re observing a noble effort to demonstrate energy management by active Weatherization Programs which will no doubt beef up insulation in homes, make every effort to stop air leaks (or circulation), and in general make each structure in the program a “tight ship”.
Here is where I have a real problem with the Weatherization Program. In [...]
We’ve had some experimenting going on with the directionality of the straw bales when putting up the walls for a straw bale house. Some are going in with the FLAT side of the bale (looks like the straw is laying out in a line) while other bales are taking the tall and narrow aspect with [...]
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Tom Arth, Howell County, Missouri, had been thinking about strawbale houses before the grant program from HUD through Top of the Ozarks RC&D Inc. in Houston, Mo. was introduced to the area.
When he learned of the availability of the $15,000 grant offered by the Top of the Ozarks RC&D Straw Bale Construction Initiative, he quit [...]
A baler makes bales using hay or straw or stalks; set the machine to medium level size and pressure and you should get a stack of uniform, medium size and shape bales, right? WRONG!
All bales are not alike even if they came from the same baling machine. A lot of things determine if a bale [...]
