SB: Re: Robert Pins Fabrication ( rant-ish)

["Robert W. Tom" <ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>]

8/29/01 2:06:46 AM, Marcus Hardwick <marcus1@sonic.net> wrote:

>Valle Kincaid wrote:
>> 
>> or you can purchase whatever you need from
>> http://www.buildingforhealth.com/strawbale.html
>
>
>Well, yeah. But consider the embodied energy involved
[snip]

Well, yeah but it's too soon in advance of the Harvest (full) Moon 
to rant just yet. But since Marcus and Valle started it ...

Embodied-energy and Green virtuousness contests aside,
the fact is that one can purchase whatever one needs from any 
number of sources.  

But why stop at netting pins, lathing gizmos  etc ?

One can buy a whole friggin' house, built in a controlled factory 
environment (thereby ensuring dry materials)
in a manner which has been engineered to minimise waste 
while optimising efficiency, and have the whole thing delivered 
to the site, completely finished and ready to move into within 
a day or three.

And if one must have a straw house, "No problemo, Amigo!" 
as Beel would say.

You can buy a straw structural insulating panel (SIP) structure 
so that it too is delivered to the site and erected by cranes in a jiffy.
Have a crew spray on some stucco and "VOILA !" Straw house .
And one wouldn't even get one's hair mussed.  (Not that there's 
anything wrong with any of the above if that is what suits one.)

Why bother messing with stacking up what are essentially big crude 
blocks of bummer (aka "toilet paper")  for livestock and then have to 
get all sweaty and sore from slathering plaster onto them  only to get
something that is all lumpy and bumpy and quite possibly a bit 
dumpy too?

I would suggest that many people choose to build their own SB houses
and make everything that goes into it (instead of heading down to the 
local Home Despot or Greenwashed Retailer and pulling something 
off of the shelf) because they are of a mindset which says 

               " I too will something make
	   And Joy in the making ".

... and in so doing , the results of what is essentially a labour of love 
(because it certainly won't be because of any significant savings 
financially) will be a living environment which brings the sort of 
pleasure and satisfaction one receives when harvesting produce 
from one's own garden, or when having a snort of one's homemade 
wine etc.   Sure, you can buy these from the store too but ...

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
<ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>

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