Has anyone come across what appears to be sheets of daub?
Some are applied to batons (but not wattle) and some seems to be in sheets a bit like a sheet of fibre-board or plaster-board. The surface is not crumbly at all, it's really very solid, and in most rooms it's covered in hairy lime plaster.
This particular piece is above the doorway in my daughters bedroom and was skimmed with gypsum and a gazillion coats of gloss paint which I very carefully took off (and the expanded foam in the gaps).
I can't find anything of the sort on google.
My g-g-grandfather was the chap who invented Thistle brand plaster and brought plaster-board to the UK which I'm feeling very guilty about, but am thinking someone rather pre-empted him with this stuff!
There are some areas where there are pieces missing which need fixing. I spoke to SPAB about repairing with hempcrete and they said to repair with daub. Can I buy it from somewhere? Or do I need to chat up the dairy farmer next door to my parents and ask him to get his cows to stomp on some mud and straw for me?
On the subject of hempcrete, I went to Grand Designs a few weeks ago and they were building an entire house with hemp. I spent a long time chatting with the guy who has worked on loads of Listed Buildings and is going to come and have a look here at some point.
We've got some insulation issues with our gable wall - it's timber framed with single skin brick noggin and no insulation bar gloss paint. All the insulation things I have looked at have been thinks like batts of wool or hemp, but even the thinnest layer is 50-70 mm and you then need to put board over, and then the lime plaster. Hemp-crete is fab as it's very flexible and mouldable, so we can have it thin where we need thin and thick where we need thick and it can go into all the wonky bits. It looks a bit like a very chunky daub. You can then lime plaster straight onto it so no need for board. Very excited to have possible solved a big issue.
Has anyone here used hempcrete on walls? If so, are you happy with it?
Did see some very interesting Manganese board which works like plaster-board but slimmer and breathable. I was really pleased to see quite how much breathability in buildings was being pushed - really tying in with the whole Green agenda thing (so I can look smug whilst going on aeroplanes :lol: )
Some are applied to batons (but not wattle) and some seems to be in sheets a bit like a sheet of fibre-board or plaster-board. The surface is not crumbly at all, it's really very solid, and in most rooms it's covered in hairy lime plaster.
This particular piece is above the doorway in my daughters bedroom and was skimmed with gypsum and a gazillion coats of gloss paint which I very carefully took off (and the expanded foam in the gaps).
I can't find anything of the sort on google.
My g-g-grandfather was the chap who invented Thistle brand plaster and brought plaster-board to the UK which I'm feeling very guilty about, but am thinking someone rather pre-empted him with this stuff!
There are some areas where there are pieces missing which need fixing. I spoke to SPAB about repairing with hempcrete and they said to repair with daub. Can I buy it from somewhere? Or do I need to chat up the dairy farmer next door to my parents and ask him to get his cows to stomp on some mud and straw for me?
On the subject of hempcrete, I went to Grand Designs a few weeks ago and they were building an entire house with hemp. I spent a long time chatting with the guy who has worked on loads of Listed Buildings and is going to come and have a look here at some point.
We've got some insulation issues with our gable wall - it's timber framed with single skin brick noggin and no insulation bar gloss paint. All the insulation things I have looked at have been thinks like batts of wool or hemp, but even the thinnest layer is 50-70 mm and you then need to put board over, and then the lime plaster. Hemp-crete is fab as it's very flexible and mouldable, so we can have it thin where we need thin and thick where we need thick and it can go into all the wonky bits. It looks a bit like a very chunky daub. You can then lime plaster straight onto it so no need for board. Very excited to have possible solved a big issue.
Has anyone here used hempcrete on walls? If so, are you happy with it?
Did see some very interesting Manganese board which works like plaster-board but slimmer and breathable. I was really pleased to see quite how much breathability in buildings was being pushed - really tying in with the whole Green agenda thing (so I can look smug whilst going on aeroplanes :lol: )
