[Strawbale] best position for moisture sensors in bale walls

[Dave Howorth]

Many thanks Derek,

I dug through my archives today and the paper I was thinking of was:

The Hygrothermal Environment and Potential for Mold Growth within a
Straw Bale Wall

Kyle Holzhueter and Koji Itonaga

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering/November 2010/499

Unfortunately, they come to the opposite conclusion to Serious Strawbale
as to the most likely location for rot! So I'm not much wiser as to
where best to locate my limited number of sensors.

Thanks anyway,
Dave

On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 00:36 +0000, Derek Stearns Roff wrote:
> Below are links to a few studies that might help.  These were all done
> in Canada.  The last one has lots of charts and graphs.  There were
> several reports in The Last Straw Journal over the years.  The book
> Serious Strawbale has a discussion of this question.  
> 
> 
> http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/publications/en/rh-pr/tech/00-103-E.htm
> http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/inpr/bude/heho/heho_004.cfm
> www.baubiologie.at/download/CMHC.doc
> 
> Derek
> 
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I remember reading a paper where somebody had installed sensors both at
> > the inside and outside of a bale wall, and both at the top and the
> > bottom of the wall. Then they monitored it for a year or more. They
> > found that two sensors had higher readings than the other two. I think
> > it was the upper outside and lower inside that had higher readings in
> > summer and winter, but perhaps my memory is faulty and they were the two
> > positions with lower humidity readings. Does anybody happen to to have
> > seen that paper and remember the details?
> > 
> > Thanks, Dave