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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 11/01/2012 - 12/01/2012
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Natural Building and Breathability. Sunday, 25 November 2012. Preparing the GF ceiling. Ground floor ceiling being prepped ready for plastering. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Saturday, 24 November 2012. We're trying out a new plaster today - it is a chalk - lime mix with polypropylene fibres. It is a pre-mixed product by Fibrelime. It comes to site in tubs. After it has been knocked up with a splash of water. A finished wall (and the right hand side of the ceiling - the other side is lime-sand mix). In th...
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: Natural Building & breathability
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Natural Building and Breathability. What is a breathable building? Breathability in buildings is not really about air. It is about water: water as a gas and water as a. Liquid; water inside the building, water outside the building, and water in the walls, floors and. Roofs themselves (though not about water in pipes! It is not only about how water moves. Through structures (water vapour permeability), but also about the ability of materials to absorb. Why build a breathable building? The main strategy us...
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 09/01/2012 - 10/01/2012
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Natural Building and Breathability. Sunday, 2 September 2012. Resistant render pro board. The Resistant render pro board compared with the multi pro board. It will be interesting to see what the difference is when we plaster them. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ground source heat pump. Limecrete / lime screed. A and S Topsoils. Benchmark Timber (cedar cladding). Cambridgeshire Brick and Tile. ESB roof glazing specialist. Tessa Hobbs Garden Design.
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 02/01/2014 - 03/01/2014
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Natural Building and Breathability. Saturday, 1 February 2014. Starting to build kitchen cupboards. The flat packed carcasses stacked up ready to be built. A space cleared to build them in the main living space. Standard, off the shelf carcasses. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Fitting out the master bedroom. The boarded wall behind the bed. Looking towards the ensuite. Fitting out the dressing area. There are dressing tables on either end of the boarded wall the bed will go up against. A and S Topsoils.
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 06/01/2013 - 07/01/2013
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Natural Building and Breathability. Saturday, 29 June 2013. Family bathroom vanity top. The vanity top is in. Looking the other way. The completed bath panel. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Tuesday, 25 June 2013. End wall in ensuite. The end ensuite wall and cupboards constructed. Just needs to be painted now. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Friday, 21 June 2013. More work in the bathrooms. Shower and basin fitted and working. Pine boards fitted to the vanity unit. Open shelves complete and fitted.
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 05/01/2014 - 06/01/2014
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Natural Building and Breathability. Thursday, 8 May 2014. Floor boards fitted on landing. Floor boards and landing balustrade posts fitted. Overview of the landing. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Sunday, 4 May 2014. Landing balustrade posts all fitted. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Starting to fit the stair balustrade posts. The top of the landing balustrade post. A couple of posts fitted. Posts are bolted to the stair trimmers using threaded rods. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Saturday, 3 May 2014.
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 05/01/2013 - 06/01/2013
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Natural Building and Breathability. Saturday, 11 May 2013. Beginning the slate wall tiling in the family bathroom. It must be the most complicated wall in the world - its got a window, sloping ceiling, bulk head, light, shower fittings! Still some way to go! Shower door fitted in the ensuite. Shelves constructed in the ensuite. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Friday, 10 May 2013. The cedar front door, to match the cladding. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ground source heat pump.
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 07/01/2012 - 08/01/2012
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Natural Building and Breathability. Sunday, 15 July 2012. Insulating the first floor. The rest of the floor that wasn't injected with Warmcel insulation (recycled newspaper), is insulated with the DIY bags of Warmcel. We tipped these in from above and fluffed them up (dusty stuff! Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Saturday, 14 July 2012. Boarding on GF ceiling complete. Boarding of the GF ceiling now complete. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Sunday, 1 July 2012. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. A and S Topsoils.
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 04/01/2014 - 05/01/2014
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Natural Building and Breathability. Wednesday, 30 April 2014. Floor boards complete around the built in bed. Out built in bed, is now set off by the floorboards. Only skirting boards still to fit in this room before its complete. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Floor boards finished around the pallet cupboard. First item of clothes hanging on the rail! Final cost of cupboard - pretty much free. Just the cost of the handing rail and ironmongery. Door also made out of waste pallets. Posted by Rachel and Andrew.
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DESIGNED: TO BREATHE: 10/01/2012 - 11/01/2012
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Natural Building and Breathability. Tuesday, 30 October 2012. Lime plaster on magnesium board. The first areas we plastered were in Mike Wye 3/2 lime plaster, which we had some problems with (as already discussed). The next plaster we tried was site mixed lime plaster. We mixed this 1:1. Posted by Rachel and Andrew. Saturday, 6 October 2012. At last we have started plastering! We are starting with lime plaster - premixed from Mike Wye 3/2 mix, which is what we used for the test many months ago now.
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