[Strawbale] Plaster mixes - now glass fibers?

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Sometimes I add chopped straw or glass fibers.  The chopped straw  
works okay to prevent cracking, and the glass fibers work very well. 
The  glass fibers also make it more difficult to take the stuff apart,  
later.

There you have  it.

-Speireag.

Speireag:  My curiosity is piqued now.  Please elaborate on the  "glass 
fibers".  Where do you get them, how small are they?  Do they  blow in the wind, 
getting in eyes, etc.?  Is it like fiberglass  insulation?  Would plastic fibers 
from rope do the same thing?  We'll  be plastering next year, if all goes 
well.
- Kathy



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