Re: [GBlist] Seeking southern strawbale and rammed-earthexamples

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh Robert Jordan:

>Check out the strawbale registry.  I think it is at the greenbuilder 
>site. A devotee of strawbale was recently disheartened when she 
>read, I believe in Out on Bale, that strawbale would be a good 
>technology once the technical problems are solved i.e. the 
>propensity to leak at windows and the difficulty in separating the 
>straw from the capillary action of what it is sitting on.

     These problems have been solved.  In the case of windows, it's 
just proper detailing, as you'd find with any construction in an area 
where rain is usual.  In the case of separating the straw from the 
foundation and other sources of capillary action, there are more 
methods for doing that than you can shake a stick at.

     For further info, check out the StrawBale list.  You can get to 
it at http://www.crest.org/

-Speireag.
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which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the 
valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt 

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