Hi Rikki, please, have a look into the internet and look at Tony's Wrench LOW IMPACT ROUND HOUSE. I have the book, so I can have a look into it and know with diameter he used for his house. If you have a look in the last page of the magazine ECOHABITAR you'll see a webpage of Tony Wrench, perhaps it's the fastest way to know a little more about that. Maren
From: "Chug." <chug@strawbale-building....uk>
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Subject: Re: [Strawbale] 1)vaults, domes, and 2)round houses,3)waterproofing bathrooms
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:39:20 -0000
>Hey Rikki
>
>I made a 3.5m diameter loadbearing last year for an infant school play hut and it was tricky, we had to custom make just about every
>bale and make wedge shapes on the ends to get the curve right
>http://www.strawbale-building.co.uk/solihull.JPG
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>bale on
>Chug
>chug@strawbale-building....uk
>http://www.strawbale-building.co.uk/
>.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "rikki nitzkin" <rnitzkin@hotmail...>
>To: <strawbale@amper....muni.cz>
>Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:19 PM
>Subject: [Strawbale] 1)vaults, domes, and 2)round houses,3)waterproofing bathrooms
>
>
>1)I don´t want to be a bother, but a Vault is not the same as Dome.
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>2)But since we are one the subject of curves . . . I wanted to know if
>anyone knows what the Minimum diameter for a loadbearing round house with a
>reciprocal roof is? And a Maximum?
>
>3)Here´s my home-made advice on waterproofing bathrooms: I also
>contemplated tadelakt but decided that if I didn´t have someone to show me,
>it was too complicated. So I plastered my wall with clay as flat as I
>could, then I glued the tiles to them with normal silicon (not very eco, but
>it stuck good!, I tried Frank Thomas´s caesin/lime glue but it came out too
>thin). Since the silicon is a bit thick it made it possible to adjust to
>the small difference of my mostly, but not perfectly, flat wall. I then
>filled in with normal, water-proof joint filler. And that´s it. Its only
>been finished 3 months, but so far no problems. My theory is that since I
>live alone, it is very unusual that I take more that two showers a day, so
>the acumulated humidity (my bathroom is well ventilated) is minimal, and
>what I have done is enough for the amount of water that splashes on the
>wall. If you don´t want to tile, you could paint a clay plaster with
>several layers of oil (new experiments in spain show that vegtable oil works
>just as well as linseed . . .I hope its true, because it cost less and is
>more transparent!) like they do for clay floors. This is not entirely
>waterproof, but can handle the amount of water for a shower. I wouldn´t
>recomend these techniques in a public shower to be used all day long every
>day, but for a home I think it is enough. . . .
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