California straw building association Archives < Natural Building Collective https://www.naturalbuildingcollective.com/tag/california-straw-building-association/ Sustainable building principles to connect, create, empower and educate. Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:55:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.naturalbuildingcollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cropped-Square-logo-32x32.png California straw building association Archives < Natural Building Collective https://www.naturalbuildingcollective.com/tag/california-straw-building-association/ 32 32 Straw bale walls prove resilient in the face of fires https://www.naturalbuildingcollective.com/myth-straw-bale-flammability-iconic-straw-bale-house-destroyed-new-years-day-fire/ https://www.naturalbuildingcollective.com/myth-straw-bale-flammability-iconic-straw-bale-house-destroyed-new-years-day-fire/#respond Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:31:14 +0000 https://www.naturalbuildingcollective.com/?p=70677 The iconic straw bale house of Simon and Jasmine in the UK burned down in a freak fire after an electrical fault ignited some stored reclaimed plastic stuff they intended to use under the earth floors downstairs as insulation. 

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