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Dear all, 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? I would appreciate any answer Regards, Jure Požar |