Re: SB: Building in Massachusetts

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh Amy Sundari Finlay:

>Hi folks, I'm new to this list.  I'm enjoying the posts greatly.
>
>I'm very interested in building with strawbales, but I have two 
>concerns, both of which have to do with my location in Western 
>Massachusetts:
>
>1) will the humid summers be a problem?

     No.  There are plenty of strawbale structures in northern New 
England (like here in New Hampshire), so for those of you 'way down 
south there it won't be a problem.

>2) can I get strawbales at a reasonable cost out here?

     I got mine about four years ago, out of New York, for under $2.00 
per bale.  I haven't tracked things since, but if you shop around you 
should be able to get a reasonable price.

-Speireag.
-- 
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree 
which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the 
valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt 

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