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13 benefits of selecting Straw Bales
as your building material:-

Straw bale walls exceed building insulation requirements. A typical rendered straw bale wall has an R-value of 7.

Straw bales produces no waste. Any excess straw on site will be utilized in the gardens.

Straw is renewable. Wheat and Barley is grown annually in the Brisbane area.

Straw is a byproduct of a basic food source with excess straw being burnt in Australia.

Fire resistant properties. A rendered straw bale wall provides a 2.5 hour fire wall. It is like trying to burn a rendered telephone book.

Suppliers are local, therefore the purchase and embodied energy cost is low.

The average Australian house uses 39% of it's annual power consumption in heating and cooling. A straw bale house combined with good passive solar design in SE Queensland should not require artificial heating or cooling.

Durability. Houses dating back to the early 1900's are still standing in America.

Straw is naturally termite resistant to most termite species.

Aesthetics of thick walls, giving depth to window and door frames.

Acoustics properties giving a softness in your home. This property has made straw ideal for school buildings and music studios.

When demolished your straw bale home can be recycled back to the garden rather then adding to land fill.

Straw provides a carbon sink that will store carbon rather then releasing it into the atmosphere.

Straw Bale Home for Sale

House For Sale, Logan Village, S-E Queensland

Straw Bale Newsletters

If you would like to have the latest Queensland straw bale updates emailed to you, let me know. I will keep you informed on what is happening in Queensland, open houses, media events, resources and courses. chris@newtonhouse.info

Past Newsletters

Emerald Workshop

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Residential Straw Bale Homes

Did you know you can build straw bale homes on a residential land on new estates and in residential Brisbane?

Load bearing, non load bearing , slab on ground, poles houses, low set, multistory, earth, lime and cement rendered straw bale homes have all been build with council approval in Queensland.

Queensland Pictorial

Click here to look at some straw bale homes from around Queensland.

Straw Bale Professional Contacts

Earth-n-Straw Works with a group of experienced straw bale professionals. Although they all work in Southeast Queensland, their services stretch throughout Australia Click Here for more information.

Straw Bale Studio at Kin Kin

Click here for a beautiful overview of the Kin Kin Straw Bale Studio

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