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| Straw Bale Details: A Manual for Designers and Builders (Natural Building Series) | 
| Author: Chris Magwood
Creator: Chris Walker
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $32.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 619759
Media: Spiral-bound
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 68
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 0.3 x 0.1
ISBN: 0865714762
Dewey Decimal Number: 643
EAN: 9780865714762
ASIN: 0865714762
Publication Date: April 1, 2003
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Product Description
Straw Bale Details is the perfect companion for those who are serious about building with straw. It focuses entirely on the specific design theories and practices that result in well-built, long-lasting bale structures. It extends the range of books like Straw Bale Building through large, easy-to-read architectural drawings rendered for a wide variety of building options, including load-bearing and post-and-beam designs. A range of foundation, wall, door and window, and roof-plate scenarios is presented, along with notes and possible modifications. Also included are the most recent testing data to help base designer and builder decisions on sound science. Chris Magwood is coauthor of Straw Bale Building and editor of The Last Straw Journal. Chris Walker is a Toronto architect specializing in sustainable design.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not too impressed May 20, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have quite a few strawbale books, and I think this one I probably could have done without. Don't plan on using this book alone to do any projects.
 Not that great August 31, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was very excited about receiving this book but I was very disappointed when I did. Not much info and the black and white drawings have a Notes section that is not numbered to correspond with the drawings or the one page text for each section. Overall, I feel this book was not a help at all.
 Like the title says, Straw Bale Details August 28, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you're interested in strawbale building this is a nice little book on many of the details involved.
The first 20 or so pages tell about various facets of the concept, they're followed by several short chapters (each with a written detail section)on things like walls, windows, foundations, electrical wiring and so on. Each of these sections consists primarily of architectural detail drawings of the chapter subject.
There's a lot of detail here but I don't think it's enough for the total novice to go out and build from. You(if you're a novice)will need a lot more information on construction than is provided here. I guess that Amazon probably has all of the books you'll need, I think they do have all of the strawbale books listed in the short bibliography, those are worth a look.
getting down to it August 13, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a great book for people who have looked at the picture books and decided to build in strawbale. It is excellent whether you are an owner builder planning to prepare your own plans, or simply want to pass the detail on to your architect or draftsperson. I like the spiral bound layout which allows you to leave the book open without breaking the spine. The authors have considered most types of strawbale construction (e.g. with and without cellar, timber floored, concrete slab,etc) but a big negative for me was that it deals only with single storey details. I want to build two storey and would have appreciated information on how to incorporate the middle floor into the strawbale walls, both for load-bearing and post-and-beam buildings. If you've read architectural plans before, you'll be able to decode how to build a strawbale house... if you can't, you won't have a use for this book. All in all - a winner for the serious strawbale builder (cheaper than a strawbale workshop and you get a resource you can keep!)
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