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OH AND I WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT HOW BEAUTIFUL IT WOULD BE TO BUILD A CORDWOOD COMPOST TOILET. OUR LAND IS MAINLY WOODED AND OH IS A TREE SURGEON SO THAT´S ALL SORTED :lol: :lol: JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF YOU HAD EVER SEEN IT DONE AND ANY TIPS YOU MIGHT HAVE FOR BUILDING SUCH A SMALL SPACE THIS WAY. ...

ANNPAN ....THE CTRL KEY WITH PLUS AND MINUS DOSN`T WORK ELLENDRA........WHEN I CHANGE THE TEXT SIZE IT REVERTS TO THE SMALL LETTERS WHEN I EDIT OR WRITE.THE SCROLL WHEEL DOESN`T WORK ON MY COMPUTER. CORDWOODGUY PS:THANKS FOR THE HELP,I PLAN TO BUY A BIGGER MONITOR NEXT TIME I UPGRADE.

THE COMMENTS ABOUT THE LIME MORTAR ARE TRUE...IT BREATHS BETTER THAN A TOTAL CEMENT MORTAR.

CORDWOODGUY

TABLET.......SOME WOOD SPLITTERS CAN WORK FORWARD AND REVERSE.AS YOU SPLIT ONE GOING FORWARD,YOU FEED THE OTHER END AND THEN AS YOU BACK OFF THE FIRST LOG.YOU START SPLITTING THE SECOND.DUAL ACTION MAKES IT SOME WHAT FASTER.

CORDWOODGUY

Don't know anything about these guys , but I just found them on Google, and they may give you a few ideas. Conventionally, in UK newbuild, the cavity would be filled with rockwool or glassfibre batts. I guess this would be fairly inert stuff environmentally, though it is made by a heat process, so ...

do they have sheep there? cos sheep fleece is terrific, though with any stone building you'll have to be careful of damp getting into it :roll: CAMILLITECH.............SHEEPS FLEECE/WOOL RETAINS ITS R-VALUE WHEN WET.[MOST INSULATIONS DON`T].BUT BUGS SEM TO BED DOWN IN THE FLEECE,SO I`D PRE-WASH IT ...

THANKS CLARA.....I`M GETTING GOOD COMMENTS ON OTHER BOARDS ABOUT IT.WHO EVER CAME UP WITH CAPITALS BEING SHOUTING WASN`T A SENIOR.I`M SQUINTING READING MY OWN POST HERE.

CORDWOODGUY

TRY A PIT BULL,THEY HAVE THE RECORD FOR KILLING RATS.
BUT THEY ARE VERY LOVING DOGS JUST NOT THAT SOCIAL WITH OTHER ANIMALS.


CORDWOODGUY

I'm planning on building with cob, partly because I can dig the clay from my own land and build the house for really cheap, but mainly because I want to build the house myself and don't have the strength for most other building techniques. To each their own. ELLENDRA...........CHECK MY HOMEPAGE ON ...

NIKKI......I`D GO WITH ICYNENE INSULATION IF ITS AVAILABLE.I JUST READ ABOUT ANOTHER INSULATION CALLED AIR-KRETE WHICH SEEMS QUITE GOOD.

THE ICYNENE IS RECOMMENDED BY THE LUNG ASSOCIATION, SO YOU PROBABLY WILL NOT FIND ANYTHING GREENER.

CORDWOODGUY

HELLO! I`M NEW TO THE BOARD BUT NOT ECO-BUILDING.ITS BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL POSTING ABOUT THE ECO-BUILDING POST THAT I DECIDED TO REPLY.BECAUSE CORDWOOD GOT NO VOTES. I`VE LOOKED INTO MOST ALTERNATIVE BUILDINGS AND HAVE ALWAYS RETURNED TO CORDWOOD.BECAUSE ALL THE OTHER SYSTEMS WERE INFERIOR[MY OPIN...