SB: Fwd: A couple of notes about no pin systems from Maryland

[Beeguild@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2002 9:33:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, Beeguild writes:

Hi Folks:

A couple of notes on my experiences with no pin systems.

I retrofit an old house by ripping out the interior walls of the building and adding bales on edge to the existing plaster walls on the interior side of the exterior wall.  

Wall studs were located and nails driven in at floor level.  Twine was tied to the nail and the nail bent over.  Bales on edge were laid, nails driven into studs again at top of the bail, another string tied on, the bottom string was looped around the nail, and the nail again bent over.  The bottom string cinched the bale to the wall using a truckers hitch.  This went on ''till the wall was buried.  Bales were very tightly held to wall.  Small bales needed extra string tied from surrounding bales for support.  Window edge bales were chamfered and retied and chicken wire added to contain their fluffyness.  Bales were plastered directly with clay/sand mix which has held up well despite getting into an initial batch of low clay content topsoil in the heat of a mud party.

Also did something similar in an octagonal bale building where bales were tied to interior bamboo poles.  Problem was that mud layer had to be very thick to cover bamboo and strings.

On a currently ongoing addition we decided to use peeled poles as an internal frame to tie to.  Bales were placed the bales on edge and tied to the frame in the way listed above.  Bales will be plastered between poles, but poles will be left to stand proud on the inside and thus be a place to pound nails into and hang shelves and cabinets or simply look curvaceous (sp?) and beautiful.

The elusive Mark Piepkorn came over and took some shots of the retrofit and the addition which can be seen here:

http://www.potkettleblack.com/misc/sam1.html

sam droege
aka:  frog

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• To: smallfrog@peoplepc.com
• Subject: A couple of notes about no pin systems from Maryland
• From: Beeguild@aol.com
• Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:33:45 EST
• Full-name: Beeguild

Hi Folks:

A couple of notes on my experiences with no pin systems.

I retrofit an old house by ripping out the interior walls of the building and adding bales on edge to the existing plaster walls on the interior side of the exterior wall.  

Wall studs were located and nails driven in at floor level.  Twine was tied to the nail and the nail bent over.  Bales on edge were laid, nails driven into studs again at top of the bail, another string tied on, the bottom string was looped around the nail, and the nail again bent over.  The bottom string cinched the bale to the wall using a truckers hitch.  This went on ''till the wall was buried.  Bales were very tightly held to wall.  Small bales needed extra string tied from surrounding bales for support.  Window edge bales were chamfered and retied and chicken wire added to contain their fluffyness.  Bales were plastered directly with clay/sand mix which has held up well despite getting into an initial batch of low clay content topsoil in the heat of a mud party.

Also did something similar in an octagonal bale building where bales were tied to interior bamboo poles.  Problem was that mud layer had to be very thick to cover bamboo and strings.

On a currently ongoing addition we decided to use peeled poles as an internal frame to tie to.  Bales were placed the bales on edge and tied to the frame in the way listed above.  Bales will be plastered between poles, but poles will be left to stand proud on the inside and thus be a place to pound nails into and hang shelves and cabinets or simply look curvaceous (sp?) and beautiful.

The elusive Mark Piepkorn came over and took some shots of the retrofit and the addition which can be seen here:

http://www.potkettleblack.com/misc/sam1.html

sam droege
aka:  frog

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