[Strawbale] Moisture Monitors without Spectacles

[Rob Tom]

You've heard of Médecins Sans Frontières.
You may have even heard of Builders Without Borders.
And now, it appears that we have Moisture Monitors Without Spectacles.


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From: "Jakub Wihan" <kuba at jakubwihan.com>

Hello,

I'm currently researching materials for my thesis about moisture transfer  
in straw bale walls. I was involved in monitoring moisture damage in straw  
bale wall, that got soaking wet all the way through, due to driving rain.  
It happened last December and even though house is now being normally  
used, the relative humidity in the middle of the wall reads still 80%.  
Straw samples taken from the location of monitoring after 10 months of  
high relative humidity show no signs of decomposition. As my daily  
activity now, consists of writing and thinking about moisture in straw  
bale walls, I was appealed to join this group, even though I don't wear  
spectacles. I hope that more people will sign up to this forum  
[ SB_Nerds-r-Us ] and suggest to write about it to GSBN. I'd also support  
the creation of "rotten straw bale" website. I think it is necessary to  
join our efforts, so that everyone who's thikning of building SB house  
would be able to see the consequences of bad quality design and execution.

Best wishes,

Kuba
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I did forward the SB_Nerds intro message to the GSBN List the other day  
but I don't know if it made it through, which is a good possibility since  
the GSBN List majordomo seems to have problems with my edresses due to the  
munging that I include in my "reply to" fields.

But just to clarify, the SB_Nerds-r-Us Listserver should be used primarily  
for data storage and technical development discussions.

Any comments, observations, discussions and hihowaryas should still be  
carried out on the main SB Lists so as to include a maximum audience.

That being said, I think that it may be appropriate to utilise the  
SB_Nerds-r-Us site to store photos of moisture-damaged strawbale (ie  
rather than create a separate "Rotten straw bale" site) but that will be  
up to the SB_Nerds listmembers to decide.



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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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