What a rammed earth wall in Glen Clova taught me
We rammed the subsoil from a hillside in Angus into 500 mm walls and then waited a winter to see what happened. Notes on mix, shuttering and the things nobody tells you.
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Insulating a tenement from the inside without killing the stone
Edinburgh has forty thousand cold sandstone flats and you cannot wrap them from the outside. How I detail wood-fibre internal insulation so that the wall keeps breathing.
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