RE: SB: metal in walls

["Dane S. Judd" <dsjudd@entelchile.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Huff 'n' Puff Constructions <huffnpuff@shoal.net.au>
To: Aaron Corbin <aaronc@frontiernet.net>
Cc: <strawbale@crest.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: SB: metal in walls
> I would agree with your summations regarding steel in straw
> bales and we have not used rebar for 5 years now, not even
> as starter bars, we do not use them at all.  Make sure that
> it is high tensile fencing wire and not soft wire.
>

Hola, Lobo de Paja

   What do you use as the starter bars?  I had planned to pin with wooden 1
x 1´´s (cheap) but thought rebars embedded in the concrete slab would be a
good insurance policy to give the stack a firm anchor.  Am open to other
suggestions

   By the way, where, to your knowledge, is the southern-most SB
construction in your neck of the woods?

Dane
Sunny and hot in Chile and preparing to pour the slab.


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