[Strawbale] compressing or not

[Tom Peeters]

Are there scientific tests that show that compressing a wall actually benefits the insulation value or that provide a maximum compression level?

kind regards 
Tom Peeters



On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:06 AM, permacultura la boa <casadipaglia at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
From my personal experience, both in load bearing than in post and beam, compression (and well done!) is essential for static,structural and insulation reasons.
Stefano
www.laboa.org



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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:59:56 +0100
From: jure.pozar at gmail.com
To: strawbale at amper.ped.muni.cz
Subject: [Strawbale] compressing or not

Dear all,

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.

Cheers 

Jure
 
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