[Strawbale] Oh, you faddy hippies

[Mark Piepkorn]

The only thing an uninformed opinion needs in order to sound like a 
fact is an authoritative delivery. (The proof of my statement is in 
its bold assertion.)

 >Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:43 pm
 >
 >There aren't that many straw bale houses in California,
 >it's a tiny, tiny percentage, they just get a lot of press
 >when it happens. Individuals do it themselves with
 >varying ways of doing it, and no building code to make
 >it consistent. They have to coat hundreds of bales
 >themselves, there's no building code for that either. I
 >doubt that any two straw bale houses are alike.
 >
 >It's not any wave of the future here. I can't find any
 >long-term information on the maintenance of a straw
 >bale house or the pitfalls. Just a lot of promotion of
 >them, without much in the way of specifics.

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Mark Piepkorn
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