[Strawbale] Concrete posts

[Dan Casan]

  I also planned  for one and a half story made by concrete posts and wood roofing.I know that I don't have to insert concrete into the bale wall because of thermal bridge.
  So how is more convenient to rise the post ? Inside or outside the bale wall. Why ?
  Arguments.
  I found at a first glance one major problem.Of course you need to string the bale wall by the posts and then earth plaster.How could you link this "touch" between this 2 incompatible materials concrete and straw when you plaster ? With polyester and chicken mesh ? Do you have any idea ?
   
  Have a nice day,
  Dan 
  
 
    

1. Re: my straw bale concept. (Rene Dalmeijer)


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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:12:22 +0200
From: Rene Dalmeijer 
Subject: Re: [Strawbale] my straw bale concept.
To: strawbale at listserv.repp.org
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Lee,

Your concept is not as special as you say on your web-site. The concept 
of putting up a free standing roof and then a bale building, with earth 
plaster. This is a good concept and is quite common. Be careful with a 
steel structure though. Try to avoid any interfaces between the steel 
structure and the SB walls. This does depend a little on the climate 
you are in the concern is greater if the climate is wetter and cooler. 
The first new, in 1998, SB house here in the Netherlands has such a 
steel structure (with myrid intersections between steel en straw) with 
steel roofing. To put it short based on our experieces we would never 
advise a steel structure again specificaly not with steel roofing at 
least not in our wet and cool climate.

Rene



 		
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