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1y ago

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in

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This is also nothing new, straw has been used as an insulation material for a very long time, even in "modern" buildings.
It's just nowhere near as effective as glass wool, for example.
- glass wool
  Is that the same as fiberglass?
  
  Also "forbidden cotton candy"
  
  Kinda but not really, they're both made from glass fibres, but are a very different product that serves a very different purpose. Fibreglass typically comes in a flat cloth, and is used with resin to create something structural.
  
  Yep
- I worked on a few buildings where they used straw balls lenght wise. They had meter thick walls and it's very efficient. One of them only had a tiny wood stove
  
  When you have a meter... I think anything will work as insulation
  
  Thats not efficient in terms of space though, you'd lose a lot of floor area that way.
- Grand designs did an episode on the construction of one. It has a beautiful smooth interior look once its rendered
- Fiberglass insulation is cancelled
- It can be used as structure, not just insulation, if compressed right.

Wtf is going on with that white border?
- Someone took a screenshot, pasted it into MS Paint, and then forgot to crop it.
  Source: personal experience lol
  
  Why not just right click/long press > save image?
  
  why would you ever want to do that
  
  Use lightshot. It's free and good.
- Enhance!
- Calm down. I don’t think that’s the topic.
  
  My parents were killed by a poorly-cropped screenshot and I WILL NOT CALM DOWN!

In all seriousness though: Pretty sure this is referring to using straw as insulation, not structural elements.
- Haybale homes have been around for ages, mum said they popular in the the 70s with the earth loving movement, and I recall them getting popular on pinterest again in 2012ish with the eco house movement.
  You stack the bales, run insulated cables and plumbing as needed, then render over the whole lot.
  
  Seems like it could be a disaster if you get a leak of any sort.
  
  I think the newer developments compress the straw more than older bales, though I'm not actually familiar with older hay bale homes.
- I forsee many issues with mould
  
  The cob or other earthen plaster incorporates clay or livestock manure which add hydrophobic and polymeric properties, which then air-cures to seal out moisture, and it's thick so if it gets wet it has to get really wet to penetrate the hay. Ideally these also have large overhanging rooves to sheet away rain.
  
  I'd be more worried about fire. High temperature plus a bit of moisture from, say, a leak, will cause hay piles to spontaneously combust.
- Nope. Look closer and you will see that those wooden support beams are totally also made of hay

Why don't you sit right back and I may tell you a tale
- Still love Green Jellö. My cousin had a VHS of their music videos. Balsac does a guest appearance on at least one if I remember right.

My guinea pigs would love if my home was made out of straw.

My revolutionary idea is live in trees.

To all the comments saying this is just straw insulation: it's more than that.
Compressed straw as building blocks is a thing now. Apparently it's strong and fire retardant too, though I don't know how much treating and cladding it needs above just being compressed.
Usually the straw block is made with a big motorised machine, but I've seen a hand-operated straw block press, with a great big long pole as an enormous lever. And the building made from its produce: a two storey building with conference hall and kitchen/accommodation. I think only the conference hall half was made with the straw blocks; the other half is interlocking bricks (like Lego 1-by-2s) also made on site.

I worked on one of these years ago in the mid-atlantic. It was a fucking disaster. I'm sure they are great in the desert.
- In the middle of the Atlantic?! No WONDER it didn't work, what were you thinking?!
- So you can be hot 90 percent of the year and freezing in December?
  
  Nah, I mean it's great insulation. The problem is moisture.

Doesn't using straw in roofing or insulation spread bed bugs? I remember reading how the little monsters used to spread in medieval Europe that way, and in their straw mattresses.
- Hay is treated and these houses do get walls. Hay is just used for insulation, nothing more and this image posted is not representative.
  
  Compressed straw blocks can also be used as structure

Image Transcription: Twitter Post and Reply
designboom, @designboom
future homeowners in france are now looking into "straw houses"
designboom.com/architecture/s…
[A photograph of a building interior with straw lining the walls. Two large windows are present on the wall.]
HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty, @keyon
Y'all don't read classic literature.

Straw and sticks, but not of bricks!

Apropos to nothing in particular, there are some cool developments in hemp building materials over the recent years.

Are there wolves in France?
- Yes, mostly in the Pyrenees.
  
  Are they big and bad?

You can tell the age of the meme from the "Twitter" footer
- Yeah, it has the date on it.

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