<html><head><base href="x-msg://5/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Since those more directly involved haven't responded, I can mention the beautiful strawbale wrap and remodel by Matts Myrhman and Judy Knox, in collaboration with various crafts people. They took a character-less boxy house, which had thermal properties resembling an oven, or in winter, a refrigerator, in its Tucson environment. They turned it into a beautiful and much more efficient home. Pictures have been published various places, including Catherine Wanek's "The New Strawbale Home" and Kelly Lerner/Carol Venolia's "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap; ">Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House". </span> A number of pictures and some text from the latter book can be seen at the link below. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=n6hTmIegZqUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=Matts+Myhrman+Tucson+remodel&source=bl&ots=ZZBgdtKnto&sig=5VbJwU8Yh1guMHBvLss8rzJXHLc&hl=en&ei=iHQKTeGILML7lweVhOmlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=n6hTmIegZqUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=Matts+Myhrman+Tucson+remodel&source=bl&ots=ZZBgdtKnto&sig=5VbJwU8Yh1guMHBvLss8rzJXHLc&hl=en&ei=iHQKTeGILML7lweVhOmlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false</a></div><div><br></div><div>Derelict</div><br><div><div>On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:14 PM, nature boy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Folks,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Does anyone have experience or ideas about wrapping an existing or new CMU structure with exterior bales? We have a client asking about this idea and she is worried about dew point between the CMU and bales.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Airspace between or not?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Mark Lakeman</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Communitecture, Inc.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">& The City Repair Project </span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>