Traveling nearly 800 miles per week gives me many opportunities to witness and photograph the strangest of events. Some of those would never make the local newscast, let alone the newspaper. Thus, it seems my duty to describe and share this "Nearly Newz" with the public.
This house (?) near Joplin, MO has been going up for some time, but what do you suppose is the reason for the roof being finished first? It makes you think the Big Bad Wolf has been by recently.
posted by Lynn Brennfoerder at 11:16 PM
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Actually, I've been watching that myself, not a little worried about structural integrity with all that roof load and no wind bracing when I first saw it. Soon after they finished the roof, they added several diagonal braces for temporary support. Now bales of straw are being used to build the actual walls!
This site: http://strawbale.com/why.html says the bales are excellent thermal and sound insulation, fire resistance and save trees (while killing mercilessly millions of innocent wheat or oat plants). It actually costs about 20% more to build, but the savings in utilities will pay for the increase in the cost of the house quickly.
Hey, actually that house roof and columns is being finished with baled
straw walls, probably will be encased with plaster.
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