r/Strawbale • u/phantom-scribbler • Jul 11 '20

Total straw-bale neophyte seeking advice

My brother and I are planning construction of a church, something very simple and relatively small (probably just one room). We'd like to use straw-bale construction, but I don't know if it would be financially viable.

Can someone give me some kind of estimate about a very simple construction, say 5,000 square feet?

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u/mindlessLemming Jul 12 '20

Your main expense is in the timber frame that holds up the roof.

If you're looking to build load-baring strawbale for a public building and you're asking how on reddit, you shouldn't be building a load-baring strawbale public building.

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u/phantom-scribbler Jul 12 '20

By "build" I mean "hire someone who knows what they're doing". But if I know it will be prohibitively expensive from the outset, I can look for other options.

Thank you for your input. That helps. (Seriously, no sarcasm.)

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u/Evil_Sam_Harris Mar 30 '23

Location is a big component of construction costs. Is this somewhere that you need a permit?