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<font face="Calibri">Dear all,<br>
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I am in the phase of designing our straw bale house and I have
heard that if you lay the straw bale horizontaly it has the same
isolation conductivity as if laid vertical. Lets presume the
bales´ dimension is 45 x 35 x 100 cm which would mean that laid
horizontaly the strawbale wall would be 45 cm and verticaly would
be 35 cm (the isolation at this second option is supposed to be
better due to straws which are in vertical position). Does anybody
know of tests performed and published of this particulat subject.
If this is true you need much less strawbales to built your house.
I am of course talking about post & beam method. Probably this
would present a problem at loadbearing method. Does anybody know
of any difficulties when building post & beam and bales put
vertical? <br>
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I would appreciate any answer<br>
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Regards,</font><br>
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Jure Požar</pre>
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