SB: [Fwd: from Melbourne]Re Rammed Earth and straw bale

["Huff 'n' Puff Constructions" <huffnpuff@shoal.net.au>]

G ' day Balers

Not much to do here in Golden Ganmain must be Christmas.
Reading The Last Straw which just arrived, roofing the bath
house and just catching up with some of my email before we
leave for the family theeng at Christmas, looking forward to
seeing my Grand daughters.

Just in case any of you have some experience in melding
straw bale and rammed earth maybe you could help Brett.

Just in case I do not "talk" with you again for a while have
a peaceful holiday time this Christmas and see you in 2002;
much to do in 2002.

Warmest wishes from the Straw Wolf and his Little Wolverine
in hot Golden Ganmain.

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• To: "John Glassford" <huffnpuff@shoal.net.au>
• Subject: Fw:
• From: "Brett Sargeant" <bsargeant@bigpond.com>
• Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:53:30 +1100
• Delivery-date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:00:56 +1100
• Envelope-to: huffnpuff@shoal.net.au

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Brett Sargeant

To: John Glassford

Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 11:36 PM

Hi John,

Brett from Melb here, I just bought in Lilydale, but having some problems.  Do you have any contacts for building inspections for the straw bale load bearing walls, in Victoria, that will work in outer Eastern Melbourne

I am looking at rammed earth walls internal and straw bale external.  How do you connect the two.  Do you place pins in the rammed earth through the bales and have a timber plate on the outside of the bale, and then mud over that?  Or run a expansion gap all the way up the wall?

To get a pitched roof, there would normally be a triangle of brick work on top of the flat wall, can you do that with the bales layer ladders  and reduce there length, and cob the ends?

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