Philippe Schutt wrote:
what about after 50 years? It is said that horses should not be given old straw, it will fall in dust and it will cause them to suffer. So should you shave the house every 10 years to change the straw?
Here is an answer:
In France, the engineer Feuillette carried out some constructions based on straw at the beginning of the XXth century. It is in Montargis that we find the oldest straw house: still inhabited and in very good condition, it dates from 1921.