I wish I could help...I'll do a seach....but I have to ask...what do you use a straw house FOR??

You Live In It !

Well to live in.

Imagine a wall 24 inches thick, pure insulation - no sound from the street, no extremes in temperature.

That is straw bale. So far what I have uncovered on the subject is that bales of straw are stacked and pinned together with re-bar (the type of steel used in reenforcing concrete) and then it is covered in chicken wire and a few layers of stucco.

The stucco keeps the straw dry, since the bales are so tight (if you have ever worked on a farm, you will know that a bale of straw or hay is very dense) that no air passes through it.

I saw pictures of a wall that had been burnt, the outer layer of straw was blackened, but inside the straw was untouched - there was no airflow for the fire to burn the bale.

As for critters, again, the bale is tightly packed, there is no free space for a critter to move through.

And cheap! Bales of hay are no match when it comes to conventional stick frame housing - straw is cheaper than wood, dry wall, etc.

The little pigs may have gotten a bad wrap on this one.

David