[GSBN] A Question about Mold and Insurance

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And on top of the pile (Design of SB Buildings, Jakub's thesis, CMHC 
documents) I would place Joyce's document.

Bye,
André


Joyce Coppinger a écrit :
> See attached document SB Benefits. And you said you wanted to catch up with
> me sometime. Did my recent email do that? What are you working on these
> days?
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> Joyce
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>> Yes please Joyce that'd be great
>> Bohdan 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: GSBN-bounces at greenbuilder.com [mailto:GSBN-bounces at greenbuilder.com]
>> On Behalf Of Joyce Coppinger
>> Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 1:25 PM
>> To: GSBN
>> Subject: [GSBN] A Question about Mold and Insurance
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I talked to Wendy by phone tonight. She lives in Spokane Washington area
>> (rural). She currently has construction liability insurance with the local
>> Farm Bureau agency. They have notified her that they will not provide
>> homeowners insurance for her home when her construction liability policy
>> expires on November 30. She has not talked directly with the underwriter,
>> but the office secretary told her by phone that the reason for denying
>> insurance was the issue of mold - giving no further explanation.
>>
>> It has taken her three years to build her house because of contractor delays
>> and problems, and financing issues during this difficult economic time. She
>> says there is some indication that the project took too long.
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>> She will welcome any suggestions given to her in educating the local
>> insurance agency underwriter and help in getting insurance for her home.
>>
>> I've sent a document to her that I prepared for use here locally that
>> outlines BASICS AND BENEFITS OF THE USE OF STRAW BALES FOR BUILDINGS -
>> citing U.S. codes as it pertains to SB that I received from David E.,
>> excerpts from the document Thermal Performance of Straw Bale Wall Systems
>> from Bruce K., info about the straw bale test results (fire tests done in
>> Texas), excerpts from Moisture properties of straw and plaster/straw
>> assemblies by John Straube, and other citations. I'll send a copy of the
>> document to you by separate email if you would like to see and review it.
>>
>>  
>> Joyce
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>> Joyce Coppinger
>> Managing Editor/Publisher
>> The Last Straw, the international journal of strawbale and natural building
>> PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 68542-2706 402.483.5135, fax 402.483.5161
>> <thelaststraw at thelaststraw.org> web site: www.thelaststraw.org and our new
>> blog at http://tls.buildearth.org
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