<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The metric value for R (or RSI), is 5.67 times that of US value.<div>So, 1/0.2=RSI5 = 5*5.67= R28.</div><div>Given the mulitple air gaps and big chunks of wood, I would not be sure it is actually that high, but it is quite realistically R20.</div><div>Not a great use of wood fiber (eg 5 times as much as needed for most structures), but if you have lots of free wood you are trying to find a use for ....</div><div><br><div><div>On 2011-02-06, at 12:41 AM, Rob Dickinson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Isn't that just 1/0.20 or R5? Not particularly very well insulated, by wall standards.<div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Reuben Deumling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:9watts@gmail.com">9watts@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Can anyone speak to this? <br><a href="http://www.thoma.at/html/english/holz100/gesund/waermedaemmung.html" target="_blank">http://www.thoma.at/html/english/holz100/gesund/waermedaemmung.html</a><br>
<br>Seems interesting but also a bit hard to believe. A 14" wall that achieves a U-value of 0.20. What is that in our R-units?<br></blockquote></div></div><br></blockquote></div><br><div>
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