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Summary
Paul calls up three of his Patreon supporters, Julia Winter, Katy, and Ryan, along with a… “hijackee?”, Elliot, who’s allowed in due to being family of one of the Patreons.
Paul received a pile of interesting stuff from a guy, including a planer that is great for finishing woodworks as well as producing shavings that are among the best possible things for starting
Rocket Mass Heaters. Bonus: less glue-laden sandpaper gets used!
Due to the recent cold weather and the lack of a resident in the Love Shack, they’ve decided to re-do the insulation, but later came to the conclusion that if they did more work on it, they could make the final result twice as effective, now they’ve taken off the interior walls and all the old insulation and are about to go after the ceiling and are talking about the floor as well. Fortunately the Love Shack is quite small, so even with the roughly triple workload it still shouldn’t take very long. *knocks on wood*
In terms of calk, they’ve been using cob, but found that any kind of movement, or expansion of materials causes it to just break, along with having to design the whole building around the cob. Beeswax works more like a normal calk, but still suffers from shredding whenever the materials expand and contract from changing temperatures. Pine tar sounds like a good idea, although they haven’t tried it yet.
They’ve tried whitewashing some things, including the inside of Allerton Abbey, only for it to start peeling after a year. This is after about 7 coats and the massive
energy footprint of cooking the lime, and apparently because the lime was a bit old – so that’s out. Charring
wood seems to add about 10% to its lifespan, but charring and coating with linseed seems to hold a lot better.
Relevant Threads
Thread on the Love Shack
Pine sap/tar/resin thread
Whitewash thread
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