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Nicholas Reckert's avatar

I absolutely love the idea of hempcrete. I believe it is non-structural, though, and requires framing if it goes to any height - rather like a half-timbered building. I stayed iin a 450-year-old half-timbered house for a couple of weeks once, courtesy of the wonderful Landmark Trust. It was a very cold December, and the plastering had all shrunk away from the beams, leaving gaps of up to an inch through which the wind whistled, and through which we could see the black night sky. We froze! Is that a known issue with hempcrete?

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jfortier's avatar

Definitely a lightbulb moment

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