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| This website documents the building of Rik Lander's studio/workshop in inner city Bristol using eco-practices. The over-riding principle has been to bring as little in and take as little away as possible. | ||
• blog
• plans
• links
• home
email: build@bristol
greenhouse.co.uk
• Foundations
• Tyre walls
• Straw bale walls
• I-beam roof
• Living roof
• Clay/Lime render
• Insulation
• Earthbags
• Book the space
| LATEST NEWS Monday 1st June 2009 |
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| Lime Rendering on Straw...Volunteers needed | |||||||||
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Sat 27th and 28th June and Sat 4th and 5th July This will be an opportunity to get hands on experience mixing and applying render to a 7-bale straw wall including doing curves around windows. Sat 27th Removal of previous clay render (it's a long story, see website for details) Mixing lime render Detailing around window sills, protecting wood surfaces, etc. Starting lime rendering Sun 28th Applying 1st coat of lime render Sat 4th Mixing additional lime render if required. Applying second coat lime render Sun 5th Completion of job. |
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Please let me know which day or days you would like to attend. |
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| The Story So Far... | |||||||||
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| The purpose of this website is to share information about the fantastic alternative building techniques I've been using. As a novice builder I have spent many hours researching every choice to weigh up the relative ecological merits of each option. Then I have gone ahead and put my choices into action. Needless to say, as a naive self-builder, I didn't always make the right choice. The information on this site is not intended to offer the definitive answers to your questions about how to build green, instead I offer some interesting methods and my own experiences and observations. Most useful are my mistakes, because you can learn from them, as I did, but |
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| without the pain. I'm aware that there's a lot of contradictory and uninformed comment all over the web. You will have to decide for yourself just how useful my contribution is. |
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| For the step by step story of the build, read the Blog | |||||||||
| Lime rendering volunteer sessions in 2009 Learn green building skills by doing. Rik Lander is building a workshop in a back garden in Ashley Down, North Bristol, using straw bale, rammed earth tyres and rubble filled gabions. We will be re-rendering the 7 bale wall with lime render this spring. Email if you are interested. Details TBA. |
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Over the summers of 2007 and 8 we have run courses on many aspects of green building and worked with Amazon Nails and Brighton's Low Carbon Network, builders of the Brighton Earthship. The project is concluding now in the summer of 2009.
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