• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    And that is the trick isn’t it. A piece of wood gets rained on, it isn’t effected much if at all. When the sun comes out, it dries in less than an hour. But bales are much like sponges, they soak up water easily and dry out very, very, very slowly.

    Just how much do you try the average construction crew to keep those bales dry on a job site?

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      9 months ago

      Building clay-and-straw houses is not suitable for mass construction, I guess.

      You could say you need to live on the site :)

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        9 months ago

        It is on par with building a ground up stick house. Sure it doesn’t beat any kind of prefab or cook cutter houses. But neither does any other method.

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        9 months ago

        No they probably aren’t suitable for mass use. But, for one-offs they can be viable choices if you get a high quality contractor and construction crew that knows what is needed to build the structure correctly.

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      9 months ago

      Well your average construction crew doesn’t build straw bale houses. The three I worked on it was a thing of real concern. We keep the bails covered before they were stacked. We would let the pile breathe during the day and cover at night. We would only stack a wall when we knew it would get finished and have the top cover on before the end of the day. And the exterior was sealed very early where the interior sealing was one of the last things to happen.

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        9 months ago

        The point is the, the “average” construction crews build the vast majority of structures around the world. And you are correct - they aren’t qualified.