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<p>I often hear of straw bale building's low cost. I have yet to see
any evidence of that (going on 15 years since my first building).
It remains a premium building method. Good, but costly due to
labour component. Not as labour intensive as light straw clay,
though.</p>
<p>Bale building becomes economical when it needs to achieve more
than typical residential building performance; such as when
compared to other methods of building an acoustic wall, for
example. <br>
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<p>I like straw. It can produce a high quality building. It isn't
cheap if you are paying market rates for labour in Australia.<br>
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<p>Regards,<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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<div class="gmail_default"
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Benefit for using straw here in Australia is that a vast
amount of straw is burnt each and every year. Almost a
million tonnes just from rice straw.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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Benefit straw consumes a fraction of the energy that goes into
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<div class="gmail_default"
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Benefit we have now built in areas of very high bush fire
attack levels, not many products on the market today can equal
straw bale.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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Benefit comes back to cost and even in the drought it is still
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<div class="gmail_default"
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