Thoughts on using straw and plaster as the exterior for a timber frame?
It'll burn well.
Yes this is fine please continue
>>2799433Extremely good for cold climates. Very thick well insulating walls. Easily the best insulation/$ you can get. >>2799434It actually doesn't. The strawbales are compacted and covered in plaster. There is no oxygen for combustion. In germany, straw bale construction has passed the highest possible rating for fire resistance and is officially approved as building material. Your average stickframe and drywall mutthouse will burn a lot better.
>>2799439Kek
>>2799433That's wattle & daub. Worked for centuries.
>>2799433needs loam rendering and limewash
>>2799433It's called cobb
>>2799439best post
>>2799527no the fuck it is not
>>2799527> it is>>2800320> it's notIt's not, because in wattle and daub, you will use sticks inbetween the studs, laterally, to form a lattice. Then take something like cob, and press it into the lattice to fill it in by hand.Straw bales stack much faster, are still common, and can be made by machine. Ranchers use 800lb round bailers, though, these days.
>>2800352> Straw bales stack much faster, are still common, and can be made by machine. Compacted bales for building like >>2799451 wrote aren’t the same as those made by most farming equipment. The normal ones used for feed or floor actually do burn very easily
>>2800362We used regular straw bales and covered them in plastic (cob), just like he said. Cob isn't going to burn through.No special equipment.
