Re: SB: re: hybrid question

["First Last" <dadelcnu@hotmail.com>]

Yes.  This will have a box beam sitting on top of the compressed bales and 
fastened to the posts.  The roof will connect to the box beam.

The supercompression will presettle the bales.  The last thing we want is 
plaster cracking from bales settling down against posts that don't settle.  
The bale walls will certainly have some structural value, but the posts will 
keep the roof up if the wall needs to be replaced.

The roof will be a hip so that weight is evenly distributed on all parts of 
the walls.

Bales generally don't need to be compressed in two cases that I know of:
1.  They're purely infill
2.  They're purely infill, and the owner doesn't mind replastering when the 
bales settle - because they will.

I could be way off, as well.

>From: bip <bip_40@yahoo.com>
>To: strawbale@crest.org
>Subject: SB: re: hybrid question
>Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:21:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>1.  Bale walls go up first.
>2.  Bale walls get super compressed, height measured.
>3.  Vertical notches for load-bearing posts get cut in bales, top to
>bottom.
>4.  Posts, exactly the same height as the super compressed wall, are
>fit
>into the wall.
>5.  Roof trusses are fastened to the posts.
>
>Aren't you going to have a header beam along the top of the posts? That's 
>where our gap came from because our box columns where built exactly the 
>same height as our stacked bale walls. If you don't are you planning on 
>putting a "post" every 2 feet? What about distribution of the weight of the 
>roof?
>
>I also don't understand the need to compress the bales.
>
>Beth
>
>
>
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