a [Final Coat] trial

We had Rendering Pros Phil and Nigel try out the final coat of lime render on our north wall. We are trying this out with white sand instead of the brickies sand. Hope it still works..... (The white sand appears a lot coarser than the others).

Looks dead straight and has survived without cracking so that’s good news.

12 Oct 2010 Update- We know Phil wasn’t quite convinced about not having any cement in the render, but it is still standing – and no cracks yet!

i render thee not so hopeless...

HERE we are as of today, the 8th of August 2010.....
Progress has been slow but steady.
All the straw work is complete, all the external walls are rendered to at least the first coat, and a few walls are also lime-rendered. We are trying to get all the lime render coats onto the external walls before the anticipated precipitation.......

south wall windows adjusted to line up with final coats. one more coat (not by us) on this wall...
clay render on the west walls... two more lime render coats to go...

temporarily covered the gable with ply until we get all the double glazing on the triangulated frames....

yep - this window to be refixed to sit outwards - render too thick!

joists for the deck...

view into the mezannine...

imagine this with the red alpolic offcuts?

:-)

ooo ya!