Cob: re: cob/strawbale ???

[Kate Searfoss]

Greetings!

    I have been folowing this thread with interest because I may need to 
build hybrid.  Bear in mind that I know just a bit shy of nothing(i.e. no 
experience.) The idea that keeps kicking around in my brain is a way to keep 
the solar or heating gain in the cob from "leaking' out to the strawbale 
insulation on the northerly walls.

    Maybe someone can clue me in as to the feasibility of putting a layer of 
cob on the strawbale, then a sheet of aluminum foil reflecting toward the 
interior, finishing with the rest of my cob wall.   My thinking is that a 
none continuous layer of reflective material would reflect heat back into 
the house and still not create a vapor barrier.

   I don't think the cost would be prohibitive.

   Let me know what you think.

  curious,

    k8


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David Knowlton '01


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