Work weekend photos, as promised. Illustrating the process of applying hemp and lime internal wall insulation - contact us if you want to know more about it or want to come help and learn how. We have finished downstairs, still have 3 rooms upstairs to do. We'll probably also be doing it externally next spring. We'll be plastering over these inside walls when they've cured in 2 months time, thye'll be the best finished i reckon because we're practising plastering everywhere else in the house right now! Scratch coat swirl patterns psychedelic walls. x

Making the shuttering which will hold the hemcrete in place against the wall while it dries

Giving it a bit more welly - two blocks of wood.

First attempt - being polite with the hemcrete - tamping it down with a block of wood, having got it all gloopy in Karl's cement mixer.

Heave! Squishing in the awkward bit under the window sill