I am no sure why that would be, you still would have most of the bale insulating. You are going to mud the outside anyway. Personally I see no advantage at all in straw over rice hulls and the rice hull house is no problem meeting spec and goes up a lot faster, weeks faster.
At 03:52 PM 11/19/2008 -0500, you wrote:
That is an outdated method originally developed in Quebec but is no longer seen as useful. It cause frost bridging and defeats the r value of the wall.
Nick
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I think if I was going to build with straw I would float the bales in clay
slip and seal all for sides before bringing them to the site. It would add
weight during construction and possibly be a slight negative on r value but
it would almost eliminate the fire hazard.
The rice hulls sound like the way to go as meeting code is easy and they
almost won't burn.
I love the idea of papercrete but I need to learn more before I would
chance building a house that way.
