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GBlist: Re: Strawbale Moisture Failures



Bion,

Your message is practically an endorsement for a building technology that
has no (0) history of success in our region.  Suggest that you reconsider
your position.

Steve


On Tue, 13 May 1997 08:15:08 -0700 "John Salmen" <terrain@seaside.net>
writes:
>While it is good to support an opinion what degree of documentation is
>required before it is ok to give an opinion in a forum? I thought
>discussion forums were partly created as a safe outlet for people
>suffering from a buildup of opinions. And I thought that 'thread' was 
>a
>clinical term for charting the progress of potentially destructive
>opinions through a host or multiple hosts. Does anyone have an opinion
>on this or should I be restrained.
>
>John Salmen
>TERRAIN E.D.S.
>terrain@seaside.net
>
>Bion Howard wrote:
>> 
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Strawbale Moisture Failures  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>> ..................................................................
>> Discussion may be fine of "potential failures" of strawbale
>> housing under certain conditions, but:
>> 
>>   IS there any documented case history of failure
>>   due to moisture of a strawbale building, and
>>   what were the building science details uncovered?
>> 
>> Before we publicly mention a bunch of ways they COULD fail
>> leading to potential misquoting and misuse of undocumented
>> opinion, let's get the facts.  I will be happy to compile
>> such case histories that may come to light, but this is
>> important enough to consider restraint on the list until
>> and unless there is evidence of systematic problems. 'Till
>> then I believe I have seen enough of strawbale GOOD perf-
>> ormance to be farily comfortable building them.
>> 
>> The code issues are an important related area -- in case
>> "meeting code" means having to employ certain building
>> materials and finishes that could help CAUSE $$$ failures!
>> 
>> --------------- Contact Information------------------
>>         Mr. Bion D. Howard, Principal
>>   Building Environmental Science & Technology
>>   P. O. Box 1007, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20773 USA
>>   bdhoward@ix.netcom.com <--> http://nrg-builder.com
>>      Voice#  410-867-8000  fax#  301-889-0889
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