I know it has been a long time since I posted any progress on our house. That's because there hasn't been any!. I won't go on a long tangent about why, that would just bore you, I will just give it to you in a nutshell.... Too much rain and we started a new business for our daughter that needed all our efforts to get it going.
So what got us back up and running? Well, last weekend we went to the Mother Earth News Conference here in Texas and they had a speaker doing a workshop on straw bale building who I was able to speak with at the end. He was very helpful and pretty much talked us into changing our strategy from load-bearing to post and beam. Thanks Chris McClellan from http://www.unclemud.com you have got us going again!
So the idea is that we won't worry so much about the weather now because once we build the roof, we can hang plastic and stack bales whenever. The only problem is that the amount of work we put into it which we are now dismantling is sort of heartbreaking. Oh well, we will move on and all will work out from here on out, right?
Below are some pictures of what we have gotten done so far with the change, we decided to build our "pavilion" that will be the roof to our house with cedar posts, we will top that with a double 2x10 sandwiching a piece of plywood between it. I will post more pics as we do more, but we are only working on it when we have free time.
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| We installed super heavy ell brackets secured with concrete anchor bolts. |
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| Posts are 10' tall, we will cut them down 3" to compensate for our concrete lip. |
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| You are looking at a 14' window buck, I know, it's awesome! |
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| The interior ceiling height will be 10' tall!!! I love how height makes a room feel larger. |
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