<div dir="auto">Hi<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the picture you see the prefab strawbale walls she is covering with OSB.</div><div dir="auto">I allways recomend to cover those walls wuth clay, but in this case the owner decided to use OSB.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">A segunda, 19/08/2024, 20:57, Dave Howorth <<a href="mailto:dave@howorth.org.uk">dave@howorth.org.uk</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:03:14 +0100<br>
Van Krieken <<a href="mailto:vankrieken@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">vankrieken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello everyone,<br>
> I have a friend who is building a house with prefabricated straw bale<br>
> walls, but she is having a lot of trouble finding available labor for<br>
> the clay plastering. So, instead of plastering the interior walls<br>
> with clay, she decided to cover them with 12mm OSB boards and then<br>
> apply a thin plaster made of marble dust, clay, and lime.<br>
> <br>
> I visited the house on a very hot day and was surprised by how cool<br>
> the walls were, which means the thermal inertia is working well.<br>
> <br>
> On the exterior, she covered the straw bale walls with wood fiber<br>
> insulation boards, plastered them with 10mm of NHL, and then applied<br>
> sprayed cork, which means the wall 'breathes' well through that layer.<br>
> <br>
> What is your opinion on placing OSB on the interior side of the<br>
> exterior walls?<br>
<br>
I'm a little confused by your question. What is on the inside of the<br>
prefabricated straw bale walls as installed? And what is shown in the<br>
pictures?<br>
<br>
> Jorge Van Krieken<br>
> <br>
> Green Heritage - Portugal<br>
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