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Cob: strawbale/cob on the insideuncle joe unclejoe at pldi.netSun Feb 17 10:22:45 CST 2002
tom wrote "to adequately protect an external earthen plaster from cracking/spalling in the repeated freeze/thaw cycles we regularly have at either end of the winter. Through November, and then again for about 7 weeks in early Spring, " mabey in canada it would be best to use the foam insulation over all the outside walls of an earthen home covered with "drive it" (a man made stuco) like they do on adobe homes in the western states of the USA on the south and west walls to keep the heat gain down from the summer heat (check out adobe at yahoogroups.com ) i know it would really be nice to use an earthen stuco but mabey in your case you might have to fudge a bit unclejoe(okla USA) -------------- next part -------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tom wrote</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"to adequately protect an <BR>external earthen plaster from cracking/spalling in the repeated freeze/thaw <BR>cycles we regularly have at either end of the winter. Through November, and <BR>then again for about 7 weeks in early Spring, "</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mabey in canada it would be best to use the foam insulation over all the outside walls of an earthen home covered with "drive it" (a man made stuco) like they do on adobe homes in the western states of the USA on the south and west walls to keep the heat gain down from the summer heat (check out <A href="mailto:adobe at yahoogroups.com">adobe at yahoogroups.com</A> ) i know it would really be nice to use an earthen stuco but mabey in your case you might have to fudge a bit </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unclejoe(okla USA)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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