Natural Buildings Course, Spring 1998
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Hi, guys! Well, we suspected we were probably biting on more than we
could chew when we went for finishing the strawbale shed in order to show
y'all how to do a "natural" roof, and so, we never got past the
round poles on Sunday. But in actual fact, three of us finished it up in
about 8 hours, so it didn't take that much longer. Here are pictures to
tell the tale. |
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When you left on Sunday, we had the ridgeposts up. We decided to move the support columns to the outside of the building, but as of this writing have yet to put them in place. The structure is supported entirely by straw. We'll let it set a spell before we decide how long to make those cedar posts. |
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| Stage One is putting on the round pole "rafters" to span between the ridgeposts and top plates. We fastened them with 5-inch barn spikes. |  |
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| Stage Two is fastening "stringer" boards across the rafters roughly parallel to the central spine. We used 2.5 inch screws and nails to fasten them. |  |
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| Stage Three was laying foam carpet liner over the stringers to protect the liner from sharp corners and nail heads. We also cut off the excess threaded rod at this point. |  |
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| Our liners came from the dumpsters outside carpet warehouses in Columbia. They throw it away daily, and you can get as much as you want. The carpet scraps we use to line our ponds with, before landscaping. |  |
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| Stage Four was a layer of straw flakes on top of the carpet liner, covered with rubber pond liner. We rolled the rubber liner on at the same time, so that the flakes wouldn't blow off. Then we trimmed the liner and next week, when the ground dries and we can mow again, we'll begin laying sod |  |
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