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Plastering, the final frontier: Clay plaster how-to

Saturday, November 3rd, 2012

Winter is here and we finished the plastering of the workshop straw-bale walls before it arrived. It may have taken a little longer than anticipated, but objective achieved :) ! To put the final nail in that side of things, we’ve written up the whole process, our research and experiences as a ‘make your own’ step-by-step: […]

Destruction Testing Straw Bale Construction

Friday, September 21st, 2012

The clay plastering of the FE workshop is completed and we are between coats on the exterior lime wash. The only reasonable thing to do is use our spare plaster experimenting bale to carry out some destruction tests! So we have had most variants of the predictable jibes and japes about straw as a building material: it will burn, […]

Clay Plastering Progress

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

We had our first plastering party, hoorah! A really good fun weekend, with lovely people and lovely mud. Here’s a quick low down on what we did and learnt. Since our testing of different clay plaster mixes and digging mission (documented in the previous blog post) there was quite a bit of

Straw bale clay plaster weekend

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Plastering party: 18th-20th May Duel purpose post here: a little update on workshop happenings and an open invite to come and learn/do some clay mixing and plastering on the straw bale walls. So the weekend: the scene is set, we have some bale walls crying out for plaster, a lovely load of clay earth and other ingredients […]