Re: [GBlist] Seeking southern strawbale and rammed-earth examples

["Y & L" <ylimahl@hotmail.com>]

TMEN, a few months ago had an article on a historic strawbale house might 
actually be the same one...

Limahl


>From: Brad Guy <guy_brad@yahoo.com>
>To: Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>,        
>greenbuilding@crest.org
>Subject: Re: [GBlist] Seeking southern strawbale and rammed-earth examples
>Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:57:38 -0800 (PST)
>
>There is a strawbale house in Birmingham, AL that is
>on the national register, apparently over 70 years
>old.  I believe it is a public site. I could not tell
>you the name but perhaps you might call the Birmingham
>Chamber of Commerce.
>Brad Guy
>Center for Construction and Environment
>--- Speireag Alden
><Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> > --
> > I feel most emphatically that we should not turn
> > into shingles a tree
> > which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror
> > penetrated to the
> > valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt
> >
> >
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