[GSBN] A Question about Mold and Insurance

[Joyce Coppinger]

All credit goes to those who did the work related to the documents, testing
and research, and codes references cited!

Joyce


> And on top of the pile (Design of SB Buildings, Jakub's thesis, CMHC
> documents) I would place Joyce's document.
> 
> Bye,
> André
> 
> 
> Joyce Coppinger a écrit :
>> See attached document SB Benefits. And you said you wanted to catch up with
>> me sometime. Did my recent email do that? What are you working on these
>> days?
>> 
>> Joyce
>> 
>> 
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>>> Yes please Joyce that'd be great
>>> Bohdan 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: GSBN-bounces at greenbuilder.com [mailto:GSBN-bounces at greenbuilder.com]
>>> On Behalf Of Joyce Coppinger
>>> Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 1:25 PM
>>> To: GSBN
>>> Subject: [GSBN] A Question about Mold and Insurance
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I talked to Wendy by phone tonight. She lives in Spokane Washington area
>>> (rural). She currently has construction liability insurance with the local
>>> Farm Bureau agency. They have notified her that they will not provide
>>> homeowners insurance for her home when her construction liability policy
>>> expires on November 30. She has not talked directly with the underwriter,
>>> but the office secretary told her by phone that the reason for denying
>>> insurance was the issue of mold - giving no further explanation.
>>> 
>>> It has taken her three years to build her house because of contractor delays
>>> and problems, and financing issues during this difficult economic time. She
>>> says there is some indication that the project took too long.
>>> 
>>> She will welcome any suggestions given to her in educating the local
>>> insurance agency underwriter and help in getting insurance for her home.
>>> 
>>> I've sent a document to her that I prepared for use here locally that
>>> outlines BASICS AND BENEFITS OF THE USE OF STRAW BALES FOR BUILDINGS -
>>> citing U.S. codes as it pertains to SB that I received from David E.,
>>> excerpts from the document Thermal Performance of Straw Bale Wall Systems
>>> from Bruce K., info about the straw bale test results (fire tests done in
>>> Texas), excerpts from Moisture properties of straw and plaster/straw
>>> assemblies by John Straube, and other citations. I'll send a copy of the
>>> document to you by separate email if you would like to see and review it.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> Joyce
>>> ---------------
>>> Joyce Coppinger
>>> Managing Editor/Publisher
>>> The Last Straw, the international journal of strawbale and natural building
>>> PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 68542-2706 402.483.5135, fax 402.483.5161
>>> <thelaststraw at thelaststraw.org> web site: www.thelaststraw.org and our new
>>> blog at http://tls.buildearth.org
>>> 
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