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January Work Weekend

tom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:10:41 +0000

Work Weekend @ the HEAP, Sat 10th & Sun 11th January 2009, 10am-4pm

Learn how to make raised beds, build fences, plant winter vegetables and work with green manures!

Delicious warm food

For more info, e-mail info@theheap.org.uk

low-impact building course @ the HEAP, Summer 2008

tom — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:40:02 +0000

in the summer of 2008 we ran a free low-impact building course at the HEAP, teaching skills including building with cob, cordwood, strawbale, as well as drystone-walling and lime plastering - all skills that some of us had learned at the course we went on in April 08 down at Heartwood Eco Community.

Over the week-long course 36 people came to the HEAP to learn, experiment and build, and by the sunday we (nearly) had a finished structure.

here’s a few pictures of the structure:

applying lime plaster to the cordwood below the low work surface

front view before lime plastering

Cob Course

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:36:46 +0000

Some of us went on a week long low-impact building course to learn the following skills;

Designing with natural materials
Cobbing, cob oven and rocket stove heated bench
Building Strawbale walls
Stone walling
Cordwood/ recycled bottle walls
Lime plastering
Thatching Wood tile and Cob floor

Now we are fully equipped to move ahead with building our own cob structure, including cob oven. Contact us if you want to get involved. “Cob is gentle on the planet,” … “It reduces the use of wood, steel and toxic building supplies. Buildings are solar oriented and energy efficient, warm in the winter and cool in the summer, no air-conditioning is needed, and minimal heating is required due to the exceptional thermal quality of the cob.”

First Post

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:50:14 +0000