I finished plastering the tops of the walls. I woke up early to work on it a couple of days last week, although in Texas even on longest days the sun doesn’t come up until after 6am, which doesn’t leave me much time to work on it.
Compared to self-engineering involved in designing and executing strawbale and cob walls, running electrical wires is a piece of cake. There are products made to let you do it easily, and tons of info/books/resources. Sometimes, though we have wondered why there are still such few varieties of electrical boxes. And they are not very well-labeld for beginners. It’s a good thing we live 3 miles away from a Home Depot. During wirings we make trips there often, to see if they have parts we didn’t know we needed but we realized we do as we are doing it.
We will be ordering a roof soon, too. We’re going to do another metal roof. That’s going to be easy, too, as the roof on the strawbale is pitched so shallow. I can easily walk on it. The cob house had 12/12 pitch — 45 degrees! That was scary, but I am proud to say our roof doesn’t leak. Woo hoo!
