Roof insulating with hemp-straw mix demonstration

ST JUVAT JULY – AUGUST 2014

Photo log

Description of built support:

Situation : Rural district of St Juvat, 22

House of village

Brief description: Making the roof insulation with natural materials : local straw

General state: House with floor covering in slate - new roof

Built stone of the Faluns (limestone) and Wallow

Former business

Modified openings

Works :

Installation of rain barrier under roof along the crawling

Realization of not handled wooden box (douglas)

Making the earth straw mix

Installation of the untreated wooden lathing (sweet chestnut tree) according to the filling of

the earth – straw mix

Installation of the earth - straw mix (insulation 40 cms in thickness)

Roof insulating with hemp-straw mix demonstration

ST JUVAT JULY – AUGUST 2014

Wall in cob the West, the base stones, side extension of the wall skeleton wood, naked cover

(without insulation)

Roof insulating with hemp-straw mix demonstration

ST JUVAT JULY – AUGUST 2014

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Pulley to take up the earth – straw mix

Roof insulating with hemp-straw mix demonstration

ST JUVAT JULY – AUGUST 2014

Preparating the earth to the earth – water mix (before straw)

Realization of the straw – earth mix

Roof insulating with hemp-straw mix demonstration

ST JUVAT JULY – AUGUST 2014

Realization of the mix

Roof insulating with hemp-straw mix demonstration

ST JUVAT JULY – AUGUST 2014

Installation of the untreated wooden lathing (sweet chestnut tree) according to the filling of

the earth – straw mix