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April 2004 We
have been busy with lots of fiddly bits, and the
roofing work has been focussed on Thomas and Ulrike's
house, but now slating is beginning on Rob and
Emma's house. The first skylights have gone in,
and the battens are being put up. For the roofs
we will be using these rather funky slates from
http://www.e-b-c-uk.com/ardesia/, which are made
from recycled car tyres, but actually look more
like natural slate than natural slate does.
We also hope to be insulating the roof over Easter,
using recycled newspaper blown into the roof cavity.
Hopefully by the end of Easter we will have an
insulated roof, and will have begun some of the
plastering. We are aware that we haven't updated
the building diary for a while, we didn't really
have too much to show for the work we had been
doing. We have also done the gutters using copper,
put up by local coppersmith Andy Harris, who did
a beautiful job.
We have been filling in all the cob between the
rafters, a slow, fiddly and time-consuming job,
which, thankfully, is nearly drawing to a close.
It has been amazing in this wet weather how constantly
dry it remains inside the houses, cob is very good
at that. The windows are being made at the moment,
we saw the first one the other day and it is GORGEOUS,
wait till you see them...
We are also starting to come into the time of year
for volunteers, so if you would like to spend some
time in a beautiful corner of West Cork, and try
your hand at cob building, earth plasters and the
like, then do get in touch, thehollies@eircom.net
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