Armed with my terrible BAL assessment, and with the contract deadlines looming, I did the vaguely sensible thing and ran to an expert. I’d gone visiting houses for Sustainable House Day back in September, and one of them was an awesome two-story strawbale house in Doubleview, built and owned by two architects Christian and Deepti. I cold-called Christian, explained my predicament and begged for some of his time – if nothing else, just to see if I was at all sane, or if I should…Continue Reading “To the experts!”