[GSBN] Drainage within a plaster system

[Frank Tettemer]

Hi Sven,

While this flexible drainage plain may well provide the needed path for 
intrusive water, and allow drainage from within the wall plaster,
would it not also prevent bonding of the render to the straw bales in 
the wall assembly?

I'm imagining a 'brown' coat of plaster, worked into the exterior of the 
bales, and the application of the Duraflow material to this first 
plaster coat, while it is still wet and workable. Then the second coat 
of plaster covers the Duraflow material, yes?

Would this compromise the structural needs of the outer skin, in it's 
function for structural engineering and seismic resiliency?

Or, to say it all a different way:
Wouldn't the use of the Duraflow weaken the strength of the wall assembly?

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Frank Tettemer
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