mercredi 8 juin 2016

Chaux chanvre finished!

 4-6 weeks to completely dry, by which time it should be a light straw colour.







3 commentaires :

gabriele gray a dit…

How thick is the complete chaux-chanvre? I read someplace that it's not just a wall covering, it's also insulating and has other good properties. Seems like an interior counterpart to the thatched roof...old fashioned but environmentally sound. (and a LOT of work, as your photos show).

Lee Sharp a dit…

5cm thick on average, there's some insulating advantage apparently but I'm not really convinced it makes a big difference as the chanvre is pretty much filled with chaux by the time it's been mixed together in the mixer, so there's no trapped air. The surface feels warmer to the touch than stone though.

gabriele gray a dit…

I had followed a blog (it disappeared, obviously changes in their lives, good ones I hope) so when you mentioned chaux-chanvre I thought ahah! I remember that...and found the old blog...hence my questions...
http://livingoffgreen.blogspot.com/2012/10/chaux-chanvre.html?view=classic
I was interested in the construction/discovery part. I had rented a gite in Laroque de Fa (Aude) and nearby was a lot with about the same amount of stone and state of disrepair of your barn (before!) and I asked who would buy a lot with a couple of falling down walls and was informed that because it had been a house, it could be a house again.
Which I thought was wonderful, rebuilding rather than tearing old walls and building a modern...(not home...) unit.