While waiting for the grain to mature so the straw could be harvested, we put in place the frame for the door and the windows. All the windows and the door are second hand. All are solid timber. All required (or still require) a lot of work to bring them up to scratch but we felt strongly about not buying new what we could get secondhand. The money we saved ourselves was an added bonus.
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| Bedroom window and bathroom window in place |
You might be able to see, in the photo above, that we had painted the external brackets with zinc rust proofing paint.
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| Door frame in place |
In the photo above, you can see that we had some leftover hardwood spaced out on the floor. This was to keep the straw off the floor in case moisture got in. Moisture is cancer for strawbales.
Not being a patient person, I was chomping at the bit and hanging to get started on constructing the walls.
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