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Apparently, you can do pier foundations or pole frames with bales just
like any other wall material, more or less. "Serious Straw Bale" has some
details on that.
I don't know what I think of
"stilt-houses", but I'm never happy to see bulldozers cut and fill (as they do
so much) more than the minimum. In my view, you nest into an area, not
just rearrange it on a large scale to make a flat. Never cared
for that approach. Not to say, "don't move dirt" some
must be moved. I rather say, don't move more dirt than you could
do by hand and you'll stay in scale with your surroundings...
Steve
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 6:50
PM
Subject: SB: Question about strawbale
house on stilts
I have recently been excavating the foundations
for my garage/workshop. Needless to say the walls will be
strawbale. This task has been such an onerous chore because of the slope
on my land that I, half facetiously, said I was going to build the house on
stilts when I finished the garage so that I did have to go through this
again.
Later I thought about that and wondered if anyone
has actually done that. I would want to build a double floor with bales
between the two for insulation. (Same with the roof.) I would also build
a post and beam structure strong enough to support the bale walls.
Biggest problem as I see it is the lack of a concrete slab as a heat
sink. I would have to come up with an alternative if I wanted to design
passive solar.
Anyone got any thoughts on this
matter?
Thanks,
Steve
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