[Strawbale] PEX, Concrete Slab, Fear of Death (by contractor)

[Dion Hollenbeck]

At 01:08 AM 12/28/2007, Shody Ryon wrote:
>The roof sounds great. I think I would build it a
>little differently. I would use a metal roof to
>harvest rain water and have an air space between the
>metal and the insulation envelope to collect day time
>solar heated air or night time energy radiated cold
>air to transfer heat or cool to the thermal storage in
>the thermal attic.

Actually, that *is* the way the roof is.  In fact, the air space is 
about 5 feet tall at the peak.  I use a truss roof with OSB and metal 
over the trusses.  The blown in cellulose is down at the bottom, in 
the bottom chord of the trusses.

dion


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