Re: SB: Re: 360 reasons to build with SB

[Sebastian Gunner <sebg@optushome.com.au>]

on 23/2/01 7:16 PM, Huff 'n' Puff Constructions at huffnpuff@shoal.net.au
wrote:

> G ' day Bill
> 
> 
>> Let me just comment that many such low costs one hears quoted do not
>> include the labor of owner builders, volunteers, workshop workers, etc.
> 
> Yes you are right here but why do we have to cost everything when it can be
> done with help from friends relations and neighbours or workshop participants.
> If you want apples to apples comparisons then I agree the cost of in-fill SB
> will be dearer than stick frame from cost per say, but if you look at all the
> major benefits of SB AND adobe (mud brick) v stick frames then there is a huge
> advantage environmentally.
> 
>> 
>> Oh, adobe? In cold country, I think you need some insulation.  The endless
>> poorly heated adobe villages in the Peruvian Andes come to mind. I wish I
>> could think of some way to help those people out.
> 
> Tell me more; and if we can transport horse feed in the form of double dumped
> oaten/wheaten hay thousands of miles for four legged nags then surely we can
> transport building blocks such as straw bales to areas of the planet that most
> need good affordable shelter.  For example we are burning millions of tonnes
> of
> straw in the Riverina of New South Wales which could of been baled and sent to
> East Timor for affordable shelter locking up carbon and providing beautiful
> homes in the process.  The East Timorese need 100,000 homes which are in the
> process of being constructed now.  Maybe I am wrong but morally I feel that I
> am right.
> 
This sounds like a project?  You putting your hand up?  There are builders
and engineers over there still aren't there?  It would be amazing to get the
Timor community building homes with riverina straw.

Great idea!