Several of our Neighbours joined us for a mid-winter pizza oven lunch, glorious (fresh..) weather, great company and great food.
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The Hawkes Bay Sustainable Building Group and Green Drinks make a combined site visit to Nga Kereru. These groups increase awareness of sustainable approaches, promote local sustainable building solutions and encourage people who would like to live more sustainably to take the leap and act on their good intentions.
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The answer to the question Pizza Oven? is Yes! we are building a cob pizza oven! A post outlining how we did it, step by step and some helpful resources for more info..
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Thanks to Alessandra on camera and our video producer Michael we have the latest Nga Kereru short video compilation to share with you - Maraetotara Strawbale | Part 3: Earth Plaster. Enjoy!!!
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Plastering is underway, everything up to now has been preparation for this - the main event… love the mud :-)
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We invited a few family and friends already involved with our build to join us for our wall raising, this is a community effort similar to an old school barn raising, where the straw bales are cut, laid and compressed into the house walls.
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6 months into a 12 month build with the stretch target of moving into the self-contained B&B part of the house in July 2019, so… time for a checkpoint, how are we doing?
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Our plan… is to re-cycle/up-cycle solid timber joinery with the goal of creating a melteca free home and enjoying hand crafted wooden joinery without a second mortgage...
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We had another critical milestone before we could start closing in the frames and filling in the walls with straw, the pre-wrap building inspection.
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Add in sticks to the blog title and we are back revisiting the three pigs story!! there has been a lot written already about timber framing, so it’s time now for an update on the straw and bricks….
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In this post Pat and I are building the timber frames on site, steel portals and roof trusses go up.. pump shed built, house sitting for Paul and Julie..
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Lessons in commitment, Alessandra arrives and we break ground…
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