[Strawbale] 5 perms / no ventilation;and top-of-wall

[Rob Tom]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:41 -0400, N Leone <nlpub at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> the original question involved how to get an air barrier on the tops of  
> the bales themselves to prevent too much movement of air *within*
> the wall assembly.

Ah, okay. Thanks for that Ned.

I like the Skillful Meany's solution for that (even if he didn't intend  
for it to be a solution to the problem)... "mayonnaise" at every course.

In addition to helping in a small way to physically stabilise the bale  
wall in a somewhat similar fashion that mortar helps to stabilise a  
masonry wall, it breaks the column of straw that is the height of the wall  
into smaller cells to give air less of a runway to get accelerate... and  
that's a Good Thing IMO.

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Rob Tom
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