<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don’t know if you remember, but in June I posted a thread "<a href="http://sustainablesources.com/pipermail/gsbn/2017q2/003601.html" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">[GSBN] Load-bearing straw bale idea</a>” about a couple here in Spain that wanted to rest the Main beam of a gable roof directly on Load-bearing Straw bales. Most people were against the idea, but it seems it had never been done. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The decided to go ahead and try it. The house is only 1 story and 40m2 so it wasn’t a big risk.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The bales were extremely dense: 120-165 kg/m2. They built a second, two bale long roof-plate, attached with stakes and well tied down. The roof was finished with ceramic tiles and 20 cm of cellulose insulation (it barely gets below 0 celsius there). The house is still being finished, although the roof was completed in the summer. So far, the walls have only compressed about 2 cm. If it has any problems, I will let you all know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are some pictures: </div><div class=""><img height="214" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="3AD15304-997E-4C71-9162-CD083E8B1DD7" src="cid:25AFA470-74B1-4C5F-A55D-2DA9007F0817" class=""> <img height="214" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="92308ACC-9B33-4326-A3AE-95F9BCD2A767" src="cid:B5F4BD41-4D0C-4754-8345-87E94D5A800D" class=""> </div><div class=""><img height="320" width="214" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="9C6D8735-40E4-46AC-836B-8580CD166B30" src="cid:3E6EC836-71DA-4247-ADA7-3DEA5FEE3EAD" class=""> <img height="214" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="9CA99D52-7D46-4DF9-BC6F-9F6AEA52FF59" src="cid:6D3F23BE-4521-493C-BA55-B787633596C8" class=""> <img height="240" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="25695A73-EBC5-484E-92DD-1232AD3108CC" src="cid:4ED78A84-9BA1-4B19-A099-05154117B962" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The same couple is hoping to have the possibility to do laboratory testing on Load-bearing SB next year, and want to know: given the existing tests that have already been done, what kind of testing would be most useful to the global knowledge?: testing of the bale itself?, load bearing walls: with or without paster?, uniaxial compression?, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">any ideas for them?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks, Rikki</div><div class="">Lérida, Spain</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">p.s. Thanks to CASBA for inviting me to lunch on Thursday… love these international exchanges!</div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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