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Green Planet Homes offers seminars and workshops on a variety of straw bale and eco-logical building topics:Contact us if you're interested in hosting or attending any of these workshops.
We have finished our workshops for the season, new workshops will
be posted on this page spring 2010
Workshops 2010
Straw Bale Building Workshop - Finishing Techniques
Friday, June 4 (6 pm supper) – Saturday, June 5 (3 pm)
Calling Lakes Centre, Fort Qu’Appelle SK
Are you gathering information about finishing options for the Straw Bale building of your dreams?
Come try your hand at finishing and…
• Discuss the pros & cons of natural straw bale finishes
• Practice applying techniques to exterior and interior walls including: a smooth gypsum coat, gypsum with silicate sand and milk paint, silicate dispersion paint.
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Workshop Leader: Shawn Hayter from Green Planet Homes Inc.
Cost: $195; $210 after May 21 (includes meals & accommodation)
Call 306-332-5691
www.callinglakes.ca
link: http://www.callinglakes.ca/programs/prog1006a.htm
Previous Workshops
August 10 through August 14, 2009
Strawbale building workshop by Shawn Hayter
Strawbale building workshop
at Grande Prairie Regional Collage (GPRC) Fairview Campus
The workshop will include classroom and hands-on time. You will get a brief history of straw bale building, cover the operational and construction theory, and get experience by building a small straw bale structure.
The cost of the class is $ $725.00 + GST and includes noon lunch and refreshments. During the week of the workshop and the following week Fairview Campus is hosting a variety of alternative building workshops. In the evenings there is an opportunity to attend tours and presentations on alternative building, heating, and power. Options for accommodations include camping, motels, and college residences.To register and for more information please call 1-888-999-7882. or read the flyer here (pdf 900kb)
Here are some photos of the workshop we did summer 2008 at the Grande Prairie Regional Collage (GPRC) Fairview Campus - Fairview Alberta.
Modified Post and Beam Framing, Straw wall Placement, and Plastering.
This five day workshop was really two in one. We built a small modified post and beam structure. There was class and hands on time as every thing from the history and philosophy of straw bale to framing, safety and planning. In a workshop like this you get your hands dirty and have a great time stack and stuff the walls and cover them with plaster!
Contact us if you and/or your group are interested in signing up for any strawbale building workshop in the future.
Framing a 'modified post' for strawbale building
hammering away
Two posts ready for a corner.
4 corner posts are up
Measure the bale
Details of straw preparation
Strawbales are in, now cavities have are being stuffed with loose straw
Making sure all those corners have enough straw insulation.
Shawn explaining a window curve detail
Stucco mash: preparing for plastering.
The mesh is on, the stitching is done ready to stucco.
Can we start mixing plaster now?
Plastering
A hands on learning experience.
A fresh mud load
The inside crew starts plastering a window wall
The so called truth window is in it will show the straw in the wall.
NAIT students adding first coat to the wall.
