SB: Re: Seeking southern strawbale and rammed-earth examples

[billc_lists@greenbuilder.com]

>Check out the strawbale registry.  I think it is at the greenbuilder site.


Sure is:  http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com (or just go to 
http://www.greenbuilder.com and follow the link).

There's only one listed in North Carolina so far - in Snow Camp, 
wherever in heck that is.

This is the immediate reason we put the Registry online - so that 
people who are interested can find SBs to visit in their area.

Other reasons include gathering data for future research, compiling 
lists of mortgage and insurance companies who have covered SB, etc 
etc.    So, if you have a Straw Bale building, please enter it in the 
Registry. If you don't want it published to the world, just click "No 
Visitors" or "Research and Testing Only".  Your privacy will be 
honored.

>A devotee of strawbale was recently disheartened when she read, I believe in
>Out on Bale, that strawbale would be a good technology once the technical
>problems are solved i.e. the propensity to leak at windows and the
>difficulty in separating the straw from the capillary action of what it is
>sitting on.


I think that can be reworded:  Strawbale IS good technology as long 
as you pay close attention to details where problems can otherwise 
occur, such as leaking at windows and potential capillary action from 
whatever the bale is sitting on.

There are answers to those problems - see the Details issue of The 
Last Straw, for instance (http://www.strawhomes.com) .  Or the 
archives of the Strawbale list.

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Airlie Sattler" <as26@duke.edu>
>
>>  Dear natural building fans,
>>
>>  I am looking for examples of strawbale and rammed-earth buildings in the
>  > Southern US.


-- 
Bill Christensen
billc@greenbuilder.com

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