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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This sounds like a terrible idea.
27 posted on
01/17/2014 2:37:31 PM PST by
Ditter
To: 2ndDivisionVet
how do they run wiring? You’d plaster the inside so is all the wiring run in surface attached conduit?
37 posted on
01/17/2014 2:48:45 PM PST by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Our ancestors did this but quickly moved to the vastly superior idea of mixing the straw and clay together.
Our ability today to compress straw easily should be put towards producing blocks (bricks) with more straw content for insulation.
38 posted on
01/17/2014 2:54:23 PM PST by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
*grinning*
and it's great for "rolling around in", too.
*nudge/wink*
*nudge/wink*
42 posted on
01/17/2014 3:05:49 PM PST by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
UN Agenda 21 and the labor unions will never allow it.
44 posted on
01/17/2014 3:23:57 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
My brother in Southern Ohio lives in a house that was built in the early 1800s. It’s stone on the outside and a stone on the inside with about 3 feet of ancient straw in between.
45 posted on
01/17/2014 3:31:08 PM PST by
BuffaloJack
(Democrats believe in a two-party system—the masters and the slaves.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s a great idea except for the costs of having plans engineered and stamped by an engineering firm in your state—that and the costs of getting enough straw bales into some states (e.g., CO). If you’re building a whole house for yourself with limited savings, a totally conventional design is worth looking into for the purpose of avoiding the gangster/racket costs.
53 posted on
01/17/2014 4:37:00 PM PST by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To meet IBC or NDS by AF&PA, you still need steel reinforcement for wind and seismic lateral resistance and uplift.
Twigs, branches, or rocks? (Straw, lumber, or concrete)
56 posted on
01/17/2014 5:03:38 PM PST by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
60 posted on
01/17/2014 5:21:12 PM PST by
dalereed
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What about worms and bugs? SIP is the best technology to build efficient home to date if you ask me.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reason # 3 Fire resistance. Straw bale homes have roughly three times the fire resistance of conventional homes. Dense bales mean limited oxygen which in turn means no flames. Anyone else ever seen what happens to a hay truck hauling bales when the brakes overheat????
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Comments?Can you say insect infestation?
Wood is a renewable resource. Sturdier, longer lasting. Use it.
65 posted on
01/17/2014 7:26:36 PM PST by
metalurgist
( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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