WELCOME TO OUR WEB SITE.

We look forward to meeting some of you in 2006 at our workshops and helping as many of you who want to live in a beautiful straw bale home that is sustainable and provides you with comfort, low cost and love.

We are experiencing unprecedented demand for straw bale building information via email so please call Susan or John if you require a detailed answer to your enquiries. Currently we are planning our workshops for 2007 so if you want Huff 'n' Puff to conduct a custom workshop for your building in 2007 on your land:

Call us on (02) 6927 6027 or 0412 11 61 57 for a quick reply!

We are home in Ganmain at the moment so call us on the above number:

Our next straw bale building workshop will be held over the October day long weekend in Ganmain, NSW, from September 30th to October 4th. Ganmain is 60 ks West of Wagga Wagga.

Followed by another one over the weekend of October 14-18 2006, in Beautiful Beaufort, Victoria in the Western District of Victoria.

**********New Workshop**********

Our last workshop for 2006 will be in the Geelong area building a JUMBO bale load bearing shed with loft and a barn roof. This is our first workshop using JUMBO bales and we see many uses for JUMBO bales in straw bale buildings from beautiful homes to wineries and cool storage. The dates are from Saturday 9th December to Wednesday 13th December 2006.

http://www.glassford.com.au/Upcoming.htm

We also look forward to helping as many of those who need shelter most, in places such as Cape Town in South Africa and now Tanzania through our involvement with Rotary:

http://www.coolamonrotary.com/maps/

Anyhow enjoy the rest of 2006 and call us anytime on 61 2 6927 6027.

Interested in building a strawbale house? Need some hands-on experience? Need Plans?

Huff 'n' Puff Strawbale Constructions is a unique construction company — as well as building strawbale dwellings, we also offer workshops in strawbale building. Have a look at our Projects page to see some of the beautiful buildings we've constructed around Australia, and what's involved in our workshops. And if you're keen to get your hands dirty, get masses of information and tips on strawbale building, or if would just like to have a go, take a look at our Workshops page to see what's involved.

Letter of testomonial from our last custom workshop client:
Ms. Marion East, Meredith, Victoria. (See photo above).

Re: Straw Bale Workshop at "She Oaks", on ANZAC weekend 2005.

The realization of a dream for me on Anzac Day weekend, April 2005. Willing workers came from near and far for an intensive five days to build my house and to learn the Straw Bale technolgy from John and Susan of Huff 'n' Puff Constructions. Miracles prevailed as trouble-shooting, re-coordinating, juggling and shuffling became part of the everyday during the week leading up to the workshop.

The Concretors were smoothing the slab by headlights the Friday before the workshop was due to start and I am forever grateful! It seemed like Woodstock (minus the music) was in my front paddock as a whirl of trucks laden with sand, gravel, cement, strawbales, timber and metal rolled up daily. Fine weather prevailed and the Wedge-tailed Eagle soared over regularly to check progress.

The project gained momentum and there was no stoppiing it as friends and relatives arrived with cakes, food utensils, wheel barrows, buckets, trowels and even a fire truck (for the water). Workshop participants from Alice Springs, Brisbane, Armidale, Newcastle, Canberra and more locally in Victoria set to work under the excellent tuition of Susan and John. Small teams of people were at work making the window frames, the top and bottom plates and then the walls went up fast.

It was a great atmosphere and wonderful to see so many people involved. By day five the second coat of render was nearly completee. How hard people worked and none harder than Susan and John whose professionalism, warmth, generosity and humour were a delight to be around.

Marion East
"She Oaks"
Meredith. VICTORIA.