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LATEST ARTICLES ( 78 )

• All Things Sustainable Build Related

  

  Hello neglected readers,I meant to keep posting links to the new home for this blog each time I posted there, but clearly I have failed to do that. Sorry! Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2018 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• New Home!

  

  Hello - it's been a while!Any remaining subscribers have probably given up any hope of me ever posting anything here again. I'm back - but in a new home... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Embodied and Disembodied Carbon

  

  Sustainable materialsEarlier this week I posted this chart on twitter, showing the carbon emissions resulting from the production of one square metre of some... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Energy Flows and Thermal Comfort

  

  This post was written for the Centre of Alternative Technology's student blog, reporting on the latest module of the MSc Sustainability and Adaptation courses a... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• How The First Little Pig Could Have Beaten The Wolf and Helped Tackle Climate...

  

  Constructing a load-bearing straw-bale extension. Source: Jakub Wihan, 2012. This blog was written as an assignment for the MSc Sustainability Adaptation and th... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• How to Wrap a House in Strawbales

  

  Looking back at my blog I realise that bits of the information about different aspects of our build are scattered through different posts, because I wrote blog... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Ramble Away

  

  Just a brief post today, primarily to share the link to a podcast I was interviewed for recently. The House Planning Help podcast series covers a huge and very... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• The Interconnectedness of All Things

  

  A couple of weeks ago I started the new MSc Sustainability and Adaptation in the Built Environment course at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Living in the Baley Bungalow

  

  As anybody reading this who knows us or follows me on twitter will probably already know: we're in! We moved in at the beginning of June after an epic push to... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Nearly There!

  

  In three weeks time we'll be moving in to the strawbale-externally-insulated 1960's bungalow and loadbearing-strawbale extension that's dominated our lives for... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2014 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Mud, Mud, Glorius Mud!

  

  I've been meaning to write this post about clay plaster for ages. The delay does at least mean that the clay plastering is now finished (hurrah! Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2014 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Airtightness Test

  

  Today we had our first blower-door test, to measure the airtightness of the building. The more airtight a building - the more energy efficient. Any warm air... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Greenroof, Stove, Pipes, and Stove-pipe.

  

  I have too much for one blog post again. After exhaustive public consultation (three people on twitter) the consensus is to have geeky photos of pipes, green... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Clay Plastering Opportunity

  

  I'm now clay plastering the inside of the bale walls and the internal dividing walls. It's great stuff, clay plaster. Highly beneficial to the bale walls and th... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Tentacles of Doom and a Giant's Bellybutton Fluff; the End Grows Nearer.

  

  The whole bungalow and extension now has ceilings and insulation (video above shows the insulation being sprayed into the main loft space) . Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2013 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Enthusiastic Visitors

  

  This Saturday just gone we opened up the bungalow to anyone interested, as part of a local open eco-homes event (see here:... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Strawclay - Combining My Two Favourite Materials

  

  I'm still way behind with this blog. I'll try and make a concerted effort to catch up in the next few weeks. Life on and off site is as full as ever, but I... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• Lovely Cosy Heat

  

  This blog continues to be several weeks behind the onsite reality, but the onsite reality is several months behind the very unreal schedule so I suppose that's... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 ARCHITECTURE, HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Details Details

  

  I'm exhausted! It's been one of those phases where suddenly lots of big things are happening at the build and the space is transformed again. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ARCHITECTURE, HOME

• 'Natural' Isn't Necessarily 'sustainable'

  

  naturally occurring asbestos When choosing materials to use in our build we try to choose the most sustainable. Sustainable living means making best use of... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT