Re: window bucks

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@wco.com>]

At 10:22 AM 1/3/2001 -0800, you wrote:

Let me suggest that you get the Build It With Bales Vol 2 book.

>Now I am building I am having lots of problems with the design. Silly 
>things like the bales are sitting an inch back from the post, now how the 
>heck do I keep that inch there? 

Jam the bales up against the post and stuff straw into an crevices.  SB
building is verrrrry flexible.

>The bales are either lying next to the 
>post, or end up about two inches away by the time I am three bales high. 
>Remember I said that my post don't sit over the foundation wall, they are 
>sitting on a 14" overhang from the joists.  I didn't think any of it until
now!
>
>Plus my window bucks seem to be incredibly complicated and this means I 
>can't build them myself because I don't know how.  I am thinking instead of 
>a two 2x4  ply boxes  joined with lengths of ply for the sides, as is in 
>the plans, I may just put a 2x 10 lintel as the top and bottom of the buck 
>joined with two ply sides.. I think the reason for the box on top was to 
>take straw flakes so that custom bales don't have to be made, while I have 
>no idea why the bottom of the bucks are not just a straight piece of 2x.

We floated 2x8 window bucks per book in the first structure and it was a
hassle.  In the second structure we made the sides of the windows bucks
posts so that framing the windows was more conventional.  This way we had
no lintel support issues for bales above or below.  We ended up putting no
bales below and built in window seats instead.  Title 24 energy calcs show
our SB house to far exceed requirements so no problem there.

Jerry
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