Re: SB: Fw: Question about Balconies and Strawbale

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

1/21/02 12:26:06 PM, Michel Wingard <carrrpenter@yahoo.com> wrote:

>A balcony can easily be attached to a timber frame at
>the beam/subfloor. The tricky part will be the
>waterproofing details. The area of greatest threat
>will be dripping on the wall below. [snip]

It's usually not a good idea to have framing continuous between 
inside and outside (hopefully people have the good sense to
place the timber frame on the inside of the SB envelope to begin with)
for a number of reasons, not the least of which are concerns about
rot and  energy and moisture detailing.

That being said, there's no reason a "balcony" of sorts cannot be done with 
a SB building. 

The rules that apply to utilising bales at grade level would apply to the bales
at the deck level of the balcony.

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