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[Strawbale] Convection in SB walls



Some of us EuroBaleHeads are indeed aware of the test you mention ;-)  . We talked about it with 'Murrican' David Eisenberg during the last European gathering in Belgium as he was involved in that particular testing. I understood that there was a considerable space between the bales and the gypsum board and that he believes that this air-space increases tremendously the convection that is common in fibrous insulation materials. If I understood him correctly he does not consider it a problem to put a bale tightly agains a panel but strongly advices against an airspace between the bales and a panel.

Herbert, has any testing been done on your finished panels or is 'your' R value based on a theoretical accumulation of the different matérials you use?

Bye,
André
France


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I don't know if EuroBaleHeads are aware of the first set of thermal  
resistance tests that were performed on SB wall panels at the Oak Ridge  
National Laboratory (ORNL) back in the previous millennium which resulted  
in alarmingly low thermal resistance values for the SB walls tested.

I forget what the actual test results were (something like R-10  
ft^2*hr*degF/Btu (or RSI -1.76 m^2*degC/W in metric units) or less if I  
recall correctly ? (Hoping someone will correct me with the actual number)  
... but I do recall that it was lower than the thermal resistance of a  
conventional wood-framed/fibre batt-insulated wall using skinny 2x4 (38 x  
89 mm) studs.

I also remember that the reason for the disgustingly low thermal  
resistance value of those first SB test wall panels was attributed to  
their being clad with gypsum board sheathing rather than wet-applied  
plaster and that since the board sheathing could not conform to the  
irregular surface of the SB, allowed air movement to occur at the  
cladding/SB interface so that thermal resistance-lowering convection  
currents occurred within the SB wall.

I suspect that the identical process would occur when OSB is substituted  
for gypsum board sheathing.


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