Soon goats and sheep will be add-ons on your homeowners insurance.

No. I think that straw insulation requires a complete seal and nails puncture that seal.

Roofing has constant air circulation.

Jesus Christ, you actually think you hang things directly on the straw 🤣

Way easier to blow down than shipping containers

Be a kid: scared of house burning down.

Be an old homeowner: scared of water, and house burning down would save me a lot of work, lol.

Even the Big Bad Wolf can't cope with British NIMBYism.

He'll huff and he'll puff all he likes but nothing will stop Bernard and Mildred, 78 from organising the blocking of any building or demolition work within a dozen miles of the house they bought for £500 and half a pack of cigarettes in 1965.

nothing, except when you want to move a wall or drill an opening into it and suddenly you're fucked with a toxic inhaled material in the air

Nah, they smolder, they don't burn.

It does mean that if a fire is already started and gets past the burn temperature they basically just will burn themselves to ash but not spread

Just watched this. Was interesting to see how they build with straw to modern standards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdpKKZUw1eA

"Brits, stop building straw homes, the wolf will blow them away!"

Ventilation used to come in the form of a fireplace and huge amounts of heat going out the chimney. Can't really replicate that with modern systems unless you just want to lose a lot of energy in the process. Ventilation with heat recovery is probably the best replacement.

Then you get some people who don't understand how energy use really works and turn the system off thinking it will save them money on their energy bills. Save 20p, get mould. Not sure if that was worth it but it happens a lot.

We normally use brick rather than wood frames for building here.

The straw bales are a dense and almost structural. They also grow in the ground and require little in terms of manufacture cost and processing. Blown fiberglass is literally the opposite

Straw has been used as a building material in England for maybe a thousand years. It used to be mainly used in roofing - thatching was a trade for a very long time, and you still see thatched houses in the countryside. Obviously it needs maintenance, and occasionally you'll hear of a thatcher finding something ancient hidden away for centuries in the thatch.

Can't say I understand how it works, but it's a very effective means of building.

What a country!

I've been experimenting with antiwolf flora. Plant a shitton of spooky spiky grass (okay maybe it can be a lil spooky) so wolfo gets papercuts trying to knock on the door and it sounds like an accordion when the wind blows, then email me your results at totallyyourgrannotawolf at MySpace dot org

I still do, but I used to, too

Knowing nothing about this whatsoever, what's wrong with fiberglass insulation? The pink cotton candy kind.

Or need to bake bread when pierre's is closed

Don't forget spontaneous mice

Maybe I'm getting straw and hay confused (we have a lot of grass farmers in the area) but now I wonder if you built your haybale home out of, Idk, oat grass? It'd probably smell better than wheat grass. Or grass grass.

My Gluten allergy would never!

Is this joke too English for me?

How do you spell Curb?

Yes, and my joke is in reference to the fact that "flammable" and "inflammable" have the same meaning.