Month: April 2015
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Second Coat Render
Over three long days (with 6 people working per day), the second coat of render was applied and most of the walls made smooth and the window reveals square.
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First Coat Render
With the help of a spray pump and some trusty helpers, the first coat of render went on in about one and a half days. The recipe was about 40 shovels of red maslin plasterer’s sand, 2 20kg bags of hydrated lime and half a bag of cement.
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First fix plumbing
First fix electrical started just before we began putting the walls up, and is still continuing. In between our two wall raising weekends the first fix plumbing occurred, with the two trades engaging in friendly fire – sparky drilled through a plumbing pipe; plumbers got to a hole for conduit before the sparky so he…
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Finishing the bale walls
If a third of the wall was preparation work, a third actually putting the bales in place, then the last third is finishing the corners, tops etc and getting the walls nice and even and straight. By the end of this weekend we hope to have the walls up and completely finished, and they are…
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The wall raising weekend part 1
Our trusty and hard working volunteers worked like bust bees today to get most of the front third of the house wall up to the 6th course of bales, compressed and straightened. That means the main and second bedrooms have straw bale walls! We’re making good progress!
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Week 12 Wall raising
Electrical first fix and other bits and pieces occured on site this week while we took a day to learn from the expert how to build straw bale walls.
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