Building Progress ~ February 2008, week 2
Whilst the insulation continues to be installed into the roof of the barn, I have a admission to make… despite eco aims and intentions I’ve not been precious in ensuring that the insulation products we are using adhere to this ethos.
To be honest, I find the various pro’s and con’s of individual insulation solutions tortuous and often divisive. Questions such as:
- How far has it travelled?
- What chemicals have been used in its manufacture?
- Is local rock-wool greener than chemical impregnated sheep’s wool that has travelled far and wide chewing up carbon as it goes?
…serve to cloud issues and make decision making time consuming and potentially costly. That of course is an excuse and a pretty poor one at that! Our Quinn Therm roof insulation has a couple of saving graces, it’s manufactured in South Wales (I think) and it’s what my builder selected so he’s happy to work with it and knows what he’s doing with it, sorry but sometimes pragmatism has to win.
Anyone think I’ve done the wrong thing?
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Lime Wall Pointing on June 13th, 2007
Having fed my lime pointing addiction over the last few weeks, my overall approach is established:
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Building Progress ~ November 2007, week 3 and 4 on December 10th, 2007
Through to the end of November progress has been mainly on filling back in what has been taken out!
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Attention to detail... on November 4th, 2007
So, as we have started work, we need to think about all those details that I've put to one side until we had a builder.
Rock ‘n’ Roll on April 7th, 2007
Today’s job was clearing our fine collection of rocks to one side of the yard.
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February 27th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
It’s so hard isn’t it. I am a trustee of a not for profit which promotes green building and it stumps us every time. It’s such a shame that no-one has at least made the leap that all those sheep we have on our mountains, whose fleeces are burnt because it’s just not financially worth it, cannot contribute to a Welsh sheep fleece insulation industry. Anyone fancy setting up a business?
March 7th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
… I think that may be something we have in common! … I’ll drop you an email.