[Strawbale] Living Roof (on strawbale) - advice?

[Rob Tom]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:41:33 -0500, Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema  
<heidi at dykema.net> wrote:

> I've got to build a metalworking shop on my land on the mountain, and  
> fast.  
> I'm hoping to build a living roof

Heidi;

You do understand that the straw bales of a "living roof" will _not_ be  
providing your ceiling with any insulation to speak of. Right ?

Nor will the bales be providing much in the way of thermal mass to reduce  
the cooling load in summer, in the manner that the 4-6" deep lighwieght  
growing mediums of Green roofs do.

About the only thing I can think of that a strawbale Living Roof does that  
a Green roof doesn't do, is create the potential for a greater live load  
(ie soggy/matted composting straw)
requiring beefier roof structure to support it.

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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