[GSBN] [Greenbuilding] A question about mold and insurance
Sharon D. Moran
smoran at esf.edu
Mon Oct 5 19:31:45 UTC 2009
You may want to contact Prof. Katherine Henderson at Texas A and M
for leads on your question.
(About straw bale homes more generally, especially in history, look at
this website put up by the Smithsonian:
http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/2009/04/straw-ba
le-building-an-old-technology-in-a-new-environment.html)
- SM
Sharon Moran, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies and
Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences
SUNY - Environmental Science and Forestry
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210
315.470.6690
smoran at esf.edu
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Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] A question about mold and insurance
Well first I assume this SB house is NOT in a flood zone.
Contact Bill Steen www.caneloproject.com to see how their structures
have been insured.
Also, you may want to contact the natural building list serv to ask for
homeowners' testimony on insurance etc.
http://www.deatech.com/mailman/listinfo/canbuild
http://www.deatech.com/natural/#Strawbale
-----Original Message-----
>From: RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca>
>Sent: Oct 5, 2009 2:21 PM
>To: gsbn at greenbuilder.com
>Cc: SB Yahoos <sb-r-us at yahoogroups.com>, GB REPP
<greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>, Euro SB <strawbale at amper.ped.muni.cz>
>Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] A question about mold and insurance
>
>On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:00:05 -0400, <gsbn-request at greenbuilder.com>
wrote:
>
>> Wendy wrote:
>>> Have you or do you know of anyone who has researched mold
>>> in strawbale houses. I have just been denied insurance because the
>>> underwriter states that sb houses are prone to mold. All my
>>> research over the past 10 years and during the building process is
>>> quite the oppisite, but i need facts to persuade the ignorant. Also
>>> my motgage co would love to cancel my loan if the insurance does
>>> not come thru. We have been with this company for 4 years and 3 of
>>> it during the building process. Are you able to help?
>
>Graeme North <graeme at ecodesign.co.nz> wrote:
>[snipped]
>> I have seen strawbales that have gone rotten and/or mouldy in poorly
>> designed or constructed leaky s/b houses, but generally the good
>> insulation value of strawbale walls prevents exterior wall getting
>> cold enough for condensation to occur on the interior surfaces of
>> strawbale walls and without moisture condensing , mould will not
>> start to grow.
>
>
>There are a few CMHC studies/monitoring reports of SBH in Canada that
I
>have on hand that may be of use, and I think a couple more that I don't
>have on hand (or more correctly, can't find at the moment) that also
may
>be of use.
>
>The first two are:
>
> (i) Pilot Study of Moisture Control in Stuccoed Straw Bale Walls
> by Bob Platts June 1997
>
> In this study, the research contractor selected a
sample
>of Quebec SB houses that had been out in the Real World
> for up to about 10 years. Holes were cut into the
>plaster, the straw inspected and photographed.
>
>
> (ii) Strawbale Moisture Monitoring Report
> by Rob Jolly, August 1998
>
> In this study, moisture sensors were placed into the
>walls of 4 Alberta houses, the data collected and compiled.
>
>My defective/clouded memory is nudging me with the notion that Kim
>Thompson in Nova Scotia and Habib Gonzalez in British Columbia have
also
>done reports for CMHC on this topic but I may be mistaken.
>
>Both of the above will be available at the CMHC website
>www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
>either as downloadable PDF files and/or in hard copy upon request .
>
>I disagree with Graeme North's assertion about the inability of mould
to
>grow.
>That should probably be re-discussed in detail.
>
>
>--
>=== * ===
>Rob Tom
>Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>< A r c h i L o g i c at ChaffY a h o o dot C a >
>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress in your reply)
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