[Strawbale] best position for moisture sensors in bale walls

[Frank Tettemer]

Adding to Derek's great selection of studies, below,  you could find out more, (and invest in ready-made sensors), by getting in touch with Jacob Deva Racusin, author of The Natural Building Companion.  He has been manufacturing and perfecting sensors that are plug-and-play, for your straw bale walls.  State-of-the-art.
contact info: Jacob Deva Racusin <buildnatural at googlemail.com>

Frank Tettemer
Living Sol ~ Building and Design
www.livingsol.com

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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
>
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Derek Roff
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