<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We also have a write-up on the moisture meters here at TLS:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://thelaststraw.org/build-your-own-simple-bale-wall-moisture-sensor-tls-57/">http://thelaststraw.org/build-your-own-simple-bale-wall-moisture-sensor-tls-57/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:51 PM, RT <<a href="mailto:Archilogic@yahoo.ca">Archilogic@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:56:17 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: Sarah Seitz <<a href="mailto:sarahseitz5@yahoo.com">sarahseitz5@yahoo.com</a>><br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">How many SB buildings have been constructed in far northern climates?Can anyone think of specific buildings in Northern AB/SK/MB, Alaska, Yukon/NWT, Northern Ontario, Northern Norway, Sweden or Finland? I'd love to hear about any firsthand observations of moisture accumulation or IAQ issues in these climates.<br></blockquote><br><br>I can hear the SB-Heads in Mongolia muttering:<br><br> "So ! What are we ? Chicken liver ?"<br><br>(ie There are SBH there and despite the popular saying that Ottawa is the "coldest capital in the world" I'm pretty sure that Ulan Ba-a-a-tor is colder.)<br><br>In the mid-to-late 1990's, Habib Gonzalez (who is on this List and was a resident of the Kootenays in BC at the time) and Rob Jolly (who is not on this List and who built his SBH near Edson AB) fabricated a bunch of in-wall moisture sensors and stuck them in every imaginable orifice of a bunch of SBH throughout BC and AB and then collected data from those sensors and compiled them into reports which Don Fugler at CMHC Research had published by CMHC.<br><br>The plans for those sensors are still at the SB-r-Us Yahoogroup in the MOISTURE folder of the FILES section .<br>In Rob Joly's PDF document, he provided a brief synopsis of his 20-page report.<br><br>The full reports should still be available from CMHC.<br><br>Also, I remember a fellow on the SB-r-Us list in the early days of that list who called himself "Loopy" (or maybe it was just me that called him that ?) -- a "Dale" [mumble,mumble, I forget his last name] who built one of the first SBH in Alaska, near Anchorage. Perhaps a search of the List archives will yield a bit more info about how that house faired and maybe, if he's still a member, how it's doing now.<br><br>I don't imagine that there are very many SBH (fewer than I have digits ?) in the Yukon, NWT & Nunavut simply because trucking or flying straw bales up there from the cereal grain fields south of the 60th parallel would prohibitively expensive.<br><br>-- <br>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>AOD257<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br><br>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a ><br>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")<br>_______________________________________________<br>GSBN mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GSBN@sustainablesources.com">GSBN@sustainablesources.com</a><br>http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/GSBN<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>