SB: sb: straw bale roof

[roger e gorham <pilgrim78@juno.com>]

hi balers...

i am thinking of putting straw bales right over the tin roof on my 30 x
60 pole building that i want to make my straw home...  i built the
trusses to take a load, so, since it never snows here in etex, it should
handle straw, plus whatever.....  i'm thinking of putting new tin over
the straw, because i want the solar collection too, for possibly driving
an amonia absorbtion cooling system, as well as greenhouse bed heat and
house floor heat for the house, concrete pavers over sand/earth/used
concrete...  

in the "straw bale house" i see "living roofs"...  over flat roof
construction...  i want to put bales over my pitched roof..  1 to 3 pitch
trussed tin over..  the build a frame attached through the staw to the
trusses and tin over the whole thing...  would not that accomplish a near
r 50 roof?.. and i could still have the open trusses inside that i
want...   

any thoughts, expirience, conclussions, suggestions......  ?   hmmm   

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