Goulburn Straw Bale Workshop Tickets

Join us on another Viva Living Homes straw bale workshop to help build a 4 bedroom home near Goulburn. This is a solar passive home with external strawbale walls and cob internal walls.

This is a working straw bale workshop (no spectactors please). In exchange for your hard work, we only charge a nominal fee of $120 per person for 4 days of experience working on a straw bale house and the clients will provide morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea during the workshop. Other people charge $800 ea for these kind of workshops so you are saving a lot of money.

This is what you will be doing and learning: Putting straw bale walls in place around traditional timber frames as well as standard straw bale frames, tensioning wires which tension the bales downward, bracing the walls and strengthening them. Filling the holes between straw bales. Then you’ll make cob walls (solid earth walls like mud bricks). You’ll see what tools and materials we use, how services are dealt with, how to prepare the walls for rendering. How we prepare the soil and clay before rendering. Hopefully you'll do earth and/or lime rendering. Best of all, you’ll work out if you’re up to building your own straw bale home. We normally have work stations so you will rotate and get experience doing all of the jobs on site. It’s sure to be a great workshop where you’ll meet similar minded people and learn loads!

Date - 3rd November - 6th November 2016 Thursday to Sunday 8am- 5pm (please be prompt for the safety induction)

Address - Near Goulburn NSW Australia (address tba)

Camping will be available on site, there will be a toilet but no shower available. As this home is off-grid there will be no power on-site for camping so please bring camp cooking facilities and lighting/torches. There is rainwater for drinking but please bring some water of your own if possible. Please advise us if you are planning to camp when you purchase your tickets.

Other accomodation in the area:

Best Western Goulburn - 02 4821 2422
Goulburn Central Motor Lodge - 02 4821 1655
Alpine Heritage - 02 4821 2930
Goulburn Motor Inn - 02 4821 4488

Note: If you would like information on how to build a strawbale home, please do one of our courses as we won't go through specifics or theory. This is a working workshop www.vivahomes.com.au

Conditions
By purchasing tickets, you agree to these terms and conditions.

• Your place is booked and confirmed only when we receive your payment
• You'll be prompt each day
• It is a non-refundable/non-transferable deposit even if you don’t end up going
• If you take photos or videos during the workshop, you’ll only use them for personal use
• You are fit and healthy and will work the all the days that you’ve specified
• You will give Viva Homes more than 48 hours warning if you cannot attend
• You may be photographed or filmed by Viva Living Homes and am happy for them to use the photos in promotional material. If you’re not ok with this, tell us immediately & at the workshop
• You’ll come prepared for work and will bring appropriate clothes and boots to work in
• Before starting on site, you will do a safety induction lead by one of our Team

Dietary Needs: Lunch, morning and afternoon teas will be provided (you'll need to do your own breakfasts and dinners though). We will try to cater for general needs. However, to be safe, if you have special dietary needs or food allergies we ask you to please bring your own specialty foods as we cannot guarantee the food we supply will be free from allergens.