SB: Burning ears

["Don Fugler" <dfugler@cmhc-schl.gc.ca>]

Rob,

My ears are not burning. I butter them lightly in stucco to prevent such
occurrence, they being exposed and all. Ears usually burn if they are left
lying loosely around the construction site. Best to clean them up before
they become a fire hazard.

I thought the Citizen articles were relatively good. The house owners say
that the house costs are roughly similar to stick frame houses. That is
realistic given the construction involved cranes and all. The heating costs
for that house will not be known definitively for a while, as the heating
system wasn't fully operational for the first winter. I hope that Habib's
work for CMHC, later this year when his building practice slows down, will
give us a reasonable comparison of straw bale house energy costs vs.
conventional housing.

And to all... I found the recent philosophical exchanges very interesting,
and in the case of David Eisenberg, very convincing. I know that these
exchanges were somewhat off topic, but they made good reading.

Don Fugler
CMHC Research



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