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  • Time to get the doors set. Same story as with the windows, the frame was covered in clay slip and
  • The fifth and last week will focus on adding a roof to protect the building from weather. At this point,
  • While most of us were busy with the bottle madness, Matito conjured up some doors out of scrap wood. The
  • It's the final day of Early Bird Discount, from next week we have the regular prices for the upcoming workshop.
  • The fourth week will focus on sealing the walls outside and inside. We will apply earthen plaster and where needed
  • The third week will focus on filling last week's frame with straw bales. We will prepare all edges and transitions
  • The second week will focus on creating the frame for the building. We will use round poles for the frame,
  • The first week will focus on creating a stable base for the rest of the building. We will dig down
  • If you want to learn how to build a sustainable home from scratch with natural materials in a sustainable way,
  • This is a good time for some insight into the details of the bathroom. When you've been doing this for
  • Halfway through, we spent this morning in awe, with the sun highlighting a masterpiece of a symmetric pattern, made over
  • The next step after the bottle pattern was setting the window frames. Teamwork is everything here, one to level the
  • A few days later you can already get an idea what the pattern will look like on the inside, when
  • When we do long-term projects we like to spend the weekends hiking, climbing, or other trips. This time we went
  • A few days later you can already get an idea how the pattern will look like on the inside, when
  • The next weeks we spent mostly with bottle collection, selection, cutting, cleaning, drying, spraying, taping, organizing, setting, and finally cobbing
  • Pro Tip: when working on bottle patterns work in pairs on both sides of the wall, ideally with someone that
  • A few days later, we already had a couple of layers added, covered the stem wall and built up the
  • This build's chill instructor "Nugget", certainly thankful for all the discarded short straw. https://permaskills.org/natural-building-workshop/  #permaskills   #permacultureskills   #sustainabilityskills   #naturalbuilding   #workshop   #multicultural 
  • The first layer of cob (10cm/3in high, 30cm/1ft wide) is on all around. Roughly 100m/330ft of wall in total, about