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File:CuttingSubflooring.jpg|Cutting Subflooring Perimiter Perimeter with Circular Saw

The octagon insulation is made up of sections of light straw clay and bottle walls. Both required a multi-step process. For the light straw clay, we sifted clay harvested on the land, mixed it with water to make a clay slip, then tossed it with local straw and packed it into the walls. We tried stomping at first, then pushed it in with our hands, then started just pushing the edges of each section down with sticks to keep the center less centerless packed. For every two feet we went up we put in a piece of wire to give it support. For the bottle walls , we cut four inches off the bottom of wine bottles and then taped two pieces together to make an 8-inch long section to put into the 5.5-inch thick walls. [insert rest of bottle wall process]

[insert The roof system is built out of 2x6 rough cut rafters, suspended between a ridge beam and two beams mounted on the top of the north and south walls. The ridge beam is made from two 12' 4x12s combined with a half lap joint. The beam is supported under the joint and on the east and west sides by 12' poplar posts which were cut down to clear the site. 45-degree poplar sections connect the beam to the posts and provide extra support. The north and south beams are bolted to the north and south walls on top of the double top plate. The rafters angled towards each other to create a skinnier roof on the north and south sides than in the center.  The ceiling was built out of the same rough-cut boards as the subflooring and nailed to the rafters. We tacked roofing stuff here]paper to the ceiling then covered the roof in overlapping corrugated metal roofing. We cut the edges of the roofing with an angle grinder.