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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I do not know if is there any 'scientific' test, I have only to share my experience: ten years practicing & teaching and 46 sb building realized.<br>T<span tabindex="-1" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">ests many times are</span> <span class="hps">contradictory</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">often</span> <span class="hps">fail when they want to put</span><span class="hps"> natural materials</span> <span class="hps">into</span> <span class="hps">a table</span></span>...<br>stefano<br><br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:01:46 -0700<br>From: tompeeters13@yahoo.com<br>Subject: Re: [Strawbale] compressing or not<br>To: casadipaglia@hotmail.com; jure.pozar@gmail.com; strawbale@amper.ped.muni.cz<br><br><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div>Are there scientific tests that show that compressing a wall actually benefits the insulation value or that provide a maximum compression level?</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>kind regards </div><div>Tom Peeters</div><div class="ecxyahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:06 AM, permacultura la boa <casadipaglia@hotmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="ecxy_msg_container"><div id="ecxyiv4227905776"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div dir="ltr"><span id="ecxyiv4227905776result_box" lang="en"><span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">From</span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">my personal experience</span><span>, both</span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">in load bearing</span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">than</span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">in post</span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">and beam</span><span>, compression (and well done!) is essential</span><span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps"></span><span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps"></span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">for</span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">static,</span><span> structural and</span> <span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">insulation </span></span><span id="ecxyiv4227905776result_box" lang="en"><span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps"><span id="ecxyiv4227905776result_box" lang="en"><span class="ecxyiv4227905776hps">reasons</span><span></span></span>.</span></span><br clear="none">Stefano<br clear="none">www.laboa.org<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><div class="ecxyiv4227905776yqt6909358950" id="ecxyiv4227905776yqtfd77024"><hr id="ecxyiv4227905776stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:59:56 +0100<br clear="none">From: jure.pozar@gmail.com<br clear="none">To: strawbale@amper.ped.muni.cz<br clear="none">Subject: [Strawbale] compressing or not<br clear="none"><br clear="none">
<font face="Calibri">Dear all,<br clear="none">
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I have a fairly simple question? Is it necessarily to compress a
wall of strawbales which is supporting only itself. It is basicaly
an exterior strawbale wrapper of an existing brick wall. As far as
I can remember Kuba didn`t compress strawbales on his workshop on
ESBG in 2011. Can the strawbales sit-down after some years due to
its weight and make cracks to the exterior clay plaster? The
height of the wall is less than 3 meters.<br clear="none">
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Cheers <br clear="none">
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Jure<br clear="none">
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