Re: SB: Re:sb time frame

["waterlady Frommer" <s_waterlady@hotmail.com>]

> > Susan said:
> > > We started construction in summer of '99 and I'm only
> > just now getting the feeling that we may be "finished" in a couple
> > of more
> > months
> >
>Qeustion.
>  Does it normally take so long to do a strawbale house?
>
>Reply:
>I suspect most folks are like us in that we have a real life other than
>building a sb house.  Time frames are extremly personal.  We paid as we
>went so that took a time.  We got into rainy season.  Delays.  Figuring
>out how to do this or that took a lot of time (remember we built mostly
>in '95) and didn't even know about this list.  Physical and mental
>fatigue sometimes meant weekends we didn't even work on it.  We were not
>living on site when we built so just going was a major thing. Time frames
>for our volunteer friends had to be worked around. Building inspections
>had to be waited for.  Septic tank guy was backed up (no pun intended).
>
>If you are on site 24/7, got the money, ALL materials (like trusses),
>know-how, have subs coming on what ever day you call, perfect weather,
>physically strength, focused mindset, someone to do your meals and
>nothing else to do... you can get a small simple house built in a month.
>Plaster/stucco takes the most time with drying between each coat.
>
>happy to be back,
>strawboss
>
Well said strawboss.............esp. the part about physical fatigue (and no 
one to rub your aching muscles 'cause your spouce is in just as bad shape as 
you.)  There were times when after a hard day's work mixing, lugging, and 
applying what seemed like endless loads of plaster that even the THOUGHT  of 
having to then drive home, fix dinner, and then check for business messages 
for my business on the answering machine and reply to same was enough to 
make a grown woman cry!  I does take perserverance for sure.  But, oh, the 
results are well worth it.  Everytime I come home to my wonderful home on a 
hot day and it's lovely and cool inside or get up in the morning after a 
very cold night with no heat on and just throw on jeans and a sweat 
shirt.........need I say more?  And then there's the gorgeous light running 
around those earth-plastered walls, changing from minute to minute.  Just 
can't imagine now living in any other kind of house.  Wow, I do go on.  
Enuff.
susan


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