<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Chris, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am not at all surprised at the extent to which we agree. Seeing pictures of that first bale house of yours made it quite clear that you were okay with walls that were not stiff and straight! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I absolutely agree that making low carbon buildings commonly available by reducing their cost is a much higher priority than avoiding machined edges. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I am hoping is that we don’t stop at the current approach but find a way to have it both ways: Let the bale walls remain BALE walls - not wood boxes with bales in them - AND get them up and covered faster. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This probably requires a different approach to aggregating bales , like ….<i class="">glueing</i> them into a panel? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The point being, there’s an asset to bale walls - the character we find so appealing - that we don’t want to lose. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>