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Environmentally friendly hemp and rammed earth walls are used in this house design for multi-generation living in Northcote.
Hemp ‘shiv’, which is the inner woody core of industrial hemp plants, are cut into short lengths and mixed with a binder. This is primarily made up of hydraulic lime which is combined with water. When mixed it becomes porridge like in consistency, and is ready to place into the formwork to form monolithic walls of the house, both interior and exterior. Mixing only takes a couple of minutes (with the right hardware), and once the hempcrete has been placed, it is firm within an hour, solid within four hours, and fully cured within 6 – 14 weeks depending on temperature. Due to the location of our build we needed to construct our house on pole foundations, and so had to rule out heavier natural building techniques, such as rammed earth, mudbrick, or even light earth. Hempcrete is less than one tenth the weight of concrete (at 330kg per cu/m) so it was feasible to construct on a supported and braced platform. This is the first hempcrete building on poles in New Zealand, and possibly the strongest, with 146 x 250SED poles and heavy duty bracing installed. It’s a strong building! We’ve chosen to build our house with Hempcrete as the benefits are many and varied;
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Hemp ‘shiv’, which is the inner woody core of industrial hemp plants, are cut into short lengths and mixed with a binder. This is primarily made up of hydraulic lime which is combined with water. When mixed it becomes porridge like in consistency, and is ready to place into the formwork to form monolithic walls of the house, both interior and exterior. Mixing only takes a couple of minutes (with the right hardware), and once the hempcrete has been placed, it is firm within an hour, solid within four hours, and fully cured within 6 – 14 weeks depending on temperature. Due to the location of our build we needed to construct our house on pole foundations, and so had to rule out heavier natural building techniques, such as rammed earth, mudbrick, or even light earth. Hempcrete is less than one tenth the weight of concrete (at 330kg per cu/m) so it was feasible to construct on a supported and braced platform. This is the first hempcrete building on poles in New Zealand, and possibly the strongest, with 146 x 250SED poles and heavy duty bracing installed. It’s a strong building! We’ve chosen to build our house with Hempcrete as the benefits are many and varied;
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