Prepping Straw Bales for Stucco
Part of the Video Series How to Build a Straw Bale House
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Prepping Straw Bales for Stucco
Now we need to prep the bales which really means cleaning them up for the stucco so that they’re flat or the shape that we want them to be. And the best way to do this with straw, believe it or not, one of our favorite tools is a weed wacker or a chainsaw. And with a chainsaw, you can cut into the center of the bales without cutting too far into the wires and cut beautiful things like niches and things you can plaster on the inside of your home. So anything that you’re doing any deep cutting, you use the chainsaw, and anything with just cleaning the bales up and making them prepped and ready to put the wire on and do the stucco, you can use the weed wacker.
Now we need to prep the bales which really means cleaning them up for the stucco so that they’re flat or the shape that we want them to be. And the best way to do this with straw, believe it or not, one of our favorite tools is a weed wacker or a chainsaw. And with a chainsaw, you can cut into the center of the bales without cutting too far into the wires and cut beautiful things like niches and things you can plaster on the inside of your home. So anything that you’re doing any deep cutting, you use the chainsaw, and anything with just cleaning the bales up and making them prepped and ready to put the wire on and do the stucco, you can use the weed wacker.
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