straw & timber frame

[Anonymous No.2799433]

Thoughts on using straw and plaster as the exterior for a timber frame?

[Anonymous No.2799434]

It'll burn well.

[Anonymous No.2799439]

Yes this is fine please continue

[Anonymous No.2799451]

>>2799433
Extremely good for cold climates. Very thick well insulating walls. Easily the best insulation/$ you can get.
>>2799434
It 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.

[Anonymous No.2799463]

>>2799439
Kek

[Anonymous No.2799527]

>>2799433
That's wattle & daub. Worked for centuries.

[Anonymous No.2799529]

>>2799433
needs loam rendering and limewash

[Anonymous No.2799910]

>>2799433
It's called cobb

[Anonymous No.2799980]

>>2799439
best post

[Anonymous No.2800320]

>>2799527
no the fuck it is not

[Anonymous No.2800352]

>>2799527
> it is
>>2800320
> it's not

It'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.

[Anonymous No.2800362]

>>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

[Anonymous No.2800825]

>>2800362
We used regular straw bales and covered them in plastic (cob), just like he said. Cob isn't going to burn through.

No special equipment.