you are so wonderful

Love to build a house like this myself!

Keep up the good work 🙏❤️

You could do the same with clay, slaked lime, hemp hurds/shive or chopped straw (hemp is better) and water to mix over the wattle. It was also used. And no stench. It just smells like earth. Although dung was sometimes added.The lime plaster was also used for the outside and inside walls. Straw or hemp hurds mixed with lime and clay for the daub and 'scratch coat', and then without for the smooth last coats. Hempcrete literally becomes stone-like. Still has to have lime plaster over the top of it though. Yes hemp was grown in the UK, as a matter of fact King Henry VIII ordered his subjects to grow it. www.ukcia.org/culture/history/hmpukhis.php Adobe is made about the same in the Southwestern US in 'brick' form without the wattle (sometimes with dung, sometimes not. And now concrete is added to make it stronger.), but most likely wouldn't stand up to the wet in the UK. I've stuccoed, but that is with concrete stucco mix not lime plaster. The Romans did use concrete in the UK as historical record states and it was better than modern concrete surprising enough, but I don't think it was used in the middle-ages.

@robertotarter7839

5 жыл бұрын

@@NAT-rd8fl Water resistance, daub is water soluble, hardened lime it is not. Thry didn't cover the whole house tho, normally only the lower half and/or the northern side.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

4 жыл бұрын

lime is now being "rediscovered" in England - the concrete gets moldy and does not flex with the wood frame of the building drying. So it cracks. Africa uses dung - it's a lot easier than burning wood as deforestation to make lime ash. So then special plant "lacquer" is used for waterproofing.

@j.c.h.3257

4 жыл бұрын

Roman concrete as we know now, used volcanic ash, so I also don't think it was used in middle ages UK.

Is hazel just short for hazelnut tree or is it different?

@elliotprice9421

22 күн бұрын

Hazel is the tree thats produces hazelnuts (its seeds)