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- #strawbalehouse #sustainable Straw Bale House Build: Day 20 Clerestory
In order to create the pitch for our single slope, shed style trusses, we need to build a clerestory. We use 2X6s and cap it off with a 4X6 beam running the full length of clerestory. This will give our roof a 1:12 pitch which is not quite a flat roof.
With this pitch, we have the option of using a metal roof or an EPDM membrane, which is very common in the Southeastern US and is typically used for Mission and Adobe style homes also found in places like Santa Fe, NM.
Our next video will show getting the trusses up on the box beams, and we enlist the help of an All Star UA-cam Crew! You won't want to miss it!
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Ihr seid spitze,was ihr so alles geschafft habt👍👍👍
Vielen lieben Dank Mami! ❤️Ja, wir kommen ganz gut voran.👍😀
I'm going to copy you. Oohh how I'm going to copy you. Again thanks for the motivation and inspiration.
Not too many original ideas anymore. Feel free to copy us as much as you like. Happy to help and we would be flattered. 👍
Amazing job, I admire how clean your work looks, always taking pride in your work, God bless May God bring peace and joy this year
Thank you so much for your kind words and continued support. 🙏
Excellent video
Beautiful work as usual!
Thank you!
You do realize after constructing this straw bail home you can sell yourself as a consultant to other builders in AZ !!
Thanks. We've jokingly talked about that, but who knows. It would certainly be interesting. We appreciate you watching!
@@theupsideofdownsizing, you're way too thorough and precise to be a consultant....
Teamwork Love it!❤️✨
Those clearstory spaces would make nice windows or semi light windows like bottles or those glass blocks you can get. Looking good.👍
Exactly what we were thinking. Some windows some bottle bricks. Great minds think alike I guess. 😉
* clerestory: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clerestory. Ps - not trying to be a “Karen” ... just seeing a lot of comments using “clear story” and it seemed like this word wasn’t widely known. Bit of an architecture geek.
Wow! You are really moving now. You're videoing on a phone? Fooled me. Very well done videos. I think I've seen them all, but don't remember you ever mentioning where you got all of your skills. I don't believe you made your living as a carpenter if I remember correctly. Still love to here more about your backgrounds and hoping for that video on how you chose tools before and during construction. Everything is quality craftsmanship. Also, looks like you took some time selecting lumber too. Just an amazing job from the start.
Thanks so much for watching. I spent many years working as a commercial photographer but strangely enough, never was really interested in video. I was a "print" guy. And yes, I do all of the filming using my phone, an LG G8 and edit on that same phone too.
Yvonne and I have worked on several homes over the 26 years we've been together. So as you can imagine, we've collected tools over the years and have picked up project specific tools for our current homesteading adventure. The 12 inch sliding miter saw was purchased with larger beams and posts in mind like in this video, cutting 4x6 beams. One day we'll have to do a "LIVE" to answer just such questions......one day.
@@theupsideofdownsizing I got my masters in film at the tender age of 45 and that was many years ago. Now at 71 I am mostly DSLR. Your sound is surprisingly good and it is a weak areas for most channels.
Great job, wasn't expecting the clerestory. Looks amazing.
Thanks! I almost had the trusses made to include the pitch ( triangular shaped ). Probably would have been easier, but definitely more expensive. Have a great week!
Nobody expects ... The Spanish Inquisition, i mean a clearstory.
Love the roof design. Elegant in its simplicity.
Form follows function...K.I.S.S. Both ideas I rely on heavily. 😀
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Great job guys! Really glad to see staggered joints, the use of a stop to make many repetitive cuts, and the thought that you put into recessing the structural screws so that they wouldn’t interfere with installing the trusses. We’re looking forward to watching the truss install! Take care.
Thanks again for watching. Truss install happens today!
@@theupsideofdownsizing have fun! Yours are harder to put up than ours were - I think!
Coming right along! Happy New Year! Stay safe and have a great week!
Thanks CB, to you and Rene as well.
looking good keep it up and have a great 2021 as well
Thanks! Gonna be an exciting year for sure!
The top windows are such an elegant design detail, though I'm certain it has a practical application. Everything looks so neat, not shaggy as the word "straw" would suggest. I am wondering what machine you will use to install the roof. I am watching with glee and amazement at your progress!
Thank you. The roof will be completed using mostly good old fashioned manpower. ( Am I allowed to say that?) Maybe Human Power is more appropriate 😉 We had an exciting day of truss Installation today along with a great group of friends and fellow UA-camrs.👍
Looking lovely.
Thank you 👍
What was your main reasons for building with straw?
Less expensive?
Higher wall R value??
Sorry Im new
Great Job BTW
Hope u r loving it.
Good job. I don’t even go to Home Depot anymore, the prices are to depressing.
Yep. But like I said, can't turn back now.
@@theupsideofdownsizing yup. You’re to far down the rabbit hole at this point. Here’s hoping some king of sanity returns soon. 👍🏼
I have not kept track of dimension lumber , but in Canada OSB and plywood are up 500%
How many bales did you need for the walls? I forget. 😁
Also, I forgot to answer your question again. I didn't use the nailer, because of the piecemeal way I did the joists.
We ended up using 105 bales for the walls. We still have some stuffing to do and the areas above the windows need to be filled, but we have about 12 contractor bags filled with loose straw. We have about 20 bales left over, but between Yvonne's garden and some ideas I have for benches and other design elements, we'll probably have to get more.
$452 ? ?? That's a lot of straw.... Can't wait to see the lid on this.
Trusses worked on today as a matter of fact. 👍
It looks amazing. I love how you both work together.
Thanks! We've had 26 years of practice 😀
Is the interior 600 square feet? Great job!!🥳👍
Inside 20x36 after the plastering is done. 720sq.
It's really starting to take shape now. The ends of those beams are a nice detail. I'm curious about the compressive strength of the straw bales. Will they settle or compress more at the corners than in the middle. Because of the window and door buck outs in the middle there is less straw bale to compress than at the corners. Is this an issue in straw bale construction?
There is definitely compression to consider. The density of your bales play a huge role in this too. We will wait until the roof is done before being to plaster just to give the bales a chance to settle. The amount of overall compression, using our bales, has been between 1 and 1-1/2 inches. Never noticed a difference in compression at the corners over the middle of the walls. Interesting thought though. Thanks for watching!
Looks great!!!😊❤️
Thanks Pam😀
30% increase in steel cost too!
Inflation ahead.
We were lucky to get as much done pre Covid as we did. When I think what our foundation and deck would cost now....ugh.
You know when you say "hit that notification bell" , well since last August utube do not notify folks using a lap top or pc. I understand if you are using a phone you still get notifications. I get not a single notification for any of the channels i sub to. I do however get notifications of any comments you or i make, i also get notification of anyone replying on my comment, i also get notifications of live feeds, or scheduled feed events, but not a single upload notice, poor show on utube.
You could try to go to channels you want notifications from turn the bell "off" and "on" again. 9 out of 10 times that does the trick.
@@RobertWiggers , been there, its not just me its every one with a pc or laptop, youtube announced it in August of last year, i found it on google, they will only notify a cell phone not a pc or laptop..
Funny, I think that was the first time I actually said that in a video. We're getting so close to 5k I'm pulling out all the stops.
That's why I'm doing steal.2x2 for everything.i detest wood anyway
Can't wait to see your build! I was over at a neighbors house the other day and he's just gotten heavy in to welding. I can't wait to have some time to learn that skill.
How did you decide on the 112 pitch? Great videos. I am really enjoying them.
The pitch was actually decided by the height of our clerestory windows. The 4 perimeter walls all have 4 courses of bales plus the box beam for a total of 8'6". The 24 inch high clerestory framing created the 1:12 pitch. Because we have no issues with snow loads, a flatter roof is not an problem. And for me, a flatter roof was more comfortable to work on with my fear of heights.
Thanks Bill@@theupsideofdownsizing
Thanks Bill. I would like to build a straw bale house and your videos have been really helpful@@theupsideofdownsizing
1 12 pitch wouldn't work for 4 feet of snow that would come sometimes.need at least 4-12 pitch
Oh you are absolutely right. We've lived in colder climates with heavy snow fall....maybe not quite that heavy, but that's why we now live in AZ. I'm done shoveling snow.
Those clear story boxes you placed, are you going to fill those with windows?
Some glass, some bottle bricks, some will be closed off with Cobb. We're still kicking ideas around.
@@theupsideofdownsizing Ok, great! I asked because I was wondering if you are in a hot climate over there (I'm Dutch so I'm not). But if you were to glass up the windows on the non-sunny side of the house, in that upper part you put up in this vid, you still will have natural light but the not the green house effect you would get when the sun hits windows on the sun side of the house. I hope this makes any sense at all haha
* clerestory: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clerestory. Ps - not trying to be a “Karen” ... just seeing a lot of comments using “clear story” and it seemed like this word wasn’t widely known. Bit of an architecture geek.
Ouch! $452, but there's nothing much in the back of the truck....
No kidding. We're just lucky we built the deck and foundation when we did otherwise this project would be on hold. 44 sheets of plywood/OSB for the roof sheathing. Another hit coming thanks to Covid-19. Oh well. Onwards and upwards!
Not worries but your saying clerestory as "clearstory" always gets me. Officially its "clairstree" although my English teacher preferred "clairestoree" Me - I just avoid using it since its an uncommon term in my world. You never said what you intend as windows there and do you intend to be able to open them for circulation?
We will have a combination of Non operable double pane windows in the south east corner above the kitchen, and bottle bricks in other segments of the clerestory. And still other segments will be filled with cobb. It's a work in progress. Just the way I like working. 😉
Did you have most of the tools you have when you moved to the property?
We've always been involved in larger projects such as total home renovations so we've always had a pretty good collection of tools. We of course have added specialty tools to our toolbox every since taking on this project.
Wow 30% increase? Do you know why?
According to the Big Box Stores and our local lumber yard, supplies lines have been strained by Covid-19 regulations and restrictions.
Will the clear story be a bad add if u had very cold winters?
It will be a combination of fixed double paned windows and bottle bricks. In the winter, they will actually add to the passive solar efficiency of the house. And in the summer, they will be shaded by the 3 foot overhang preventing unwanted solar gain.
* clerestory: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clerestory. Ps - not trying to be a “Karen” ... just seeing a lot of comments using “clear story” and it seemed like this word wasn’t widely known. Bit of an architecture geek.
Thank goodness I spelled it correctly in the title 😉
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And no shou-sugi-ban...Thank goodness. It is'nt the answer to everything.
We've found Shou sugi ban to be an interesting and sort of fun treatment, but we've also found its effectiveness to be limited. Our fence posts needed to be re treated with linseed oil about a year later, whereas the oil based semi transparent stain we've used on exterior beams (on other projects) to look as good today as they did two years ago when originally treated.
😥 350,000 Covid is a reality.
Never said it wasn't real. Just how it's effected our whole economy and way of life.
Yes, pretty soon every single person will have been affected or will know someone who was affected. I’m cringing inside waiting for the stock market to suddenly reflect Main Street rather than Wall Street.
13:43 I love that. Do you love me? 😍💋 💝💖❤️
Take this with a grain of salt but you could probably increase your views and view time by cutting so video. We don’t need to see you cut 20 2x6’s of the same length or run 30 screws into the same board. It’s seeming like you’re starting to do what others do and congest your videos with ads and meaningless content just to get views and make money off of them.
Thanks for your view and for watching.
Thank Biden for the price increase
Say that on a daily basis 😡