hi andrew morrison with another straw bale minute I've had a couple inquiries in recent months about building tall straw bale walls either for Barnes or houses that have you know a grand entryway or something like that and the questions typically say is it even possible to build a very tall straw bale wall now if it's a load-bearing straw bale wall there are restrictions on how how you can go and it's based on a ratio of the width of the wall to the height of that wall that there's a standard ratio it's a mathematical equation of what you can and cannot do and that may be different depending on which code you're using or where you're building but that is the restriction that's in place if you're going with post and beam you can basically go as tall as you want really as tall as the engineering of the frame itself can handle because if you consider that the frame is where the actual engineering and the support for the structure is then all your dream of the bales is in filling in between and creating an insulated barriers so those bales can be stacked really as high as they need to be as long as they're stacked tightly and they're held to the frame and they're not they're not given the opportunity to to push out of the way now what I mean by that is i would i would put every say for courses or so some type of wood blocking in between your posts that kind of compresses the vales into place just slightly squishes them down and then do the next four courses and then do that again what that does is it really anchors the wall so that it protects it from the out-of-plane direction which means that if pictured this way he were to come running and jump into the wall it would knock you down as opposed to you running and jumping and knocking the wall down if it's braced it's going to knock you down if it's not braced you're going to go right through the wall talk to you next week