Rendering adobe, photo by Tom Keeling
On very dry walls, wet them first with a mister, hose or wet brush. Wait ten minutes and then wet them again before application. If the wall is too dry then it will quickly try to suck all the moisture from the render and this can cause an air space between wall and render, causing the render to fail. Conversely, if the wall is too wet the mixture will just fall off and you will need to wait for that area to dry a bit first before trying again.
Once the wall is moist you can apply your clay slip. Clay slip is very fine filtered clay, mixed with water till it is a cream/paste. You paint this on your moist wall and can apply render directly on top whilst it is still wet.
Applying adobe by Tom Keeling
In this short video I go through the different ways you can test your the patches that we rendered in a previous post.
You are really going to be trying your hardest to remove the patches from the wall and damage them. You want to know if they are going to be easily damaged by a falling cupboard or by water bring spilled on them. You want to know if there is so much sand in the mix that it easily brushes off and may make a mess on the floor in future. You will also need to know if there is too much clay in the mix which could have made it crack too much as it dried.
Sand and clay mixture tests by Tom Keeling. Fazenda Tomati Portugal Permaculture Design Certificate 2019
In the video below, I cover some basic tests you can do to analyse your earth for rendering…
It is important to do as many tests as you can before applying an earthen finish. For me the main reason for doing this at every job is that the earth is always going to be a little bit different, even if in this case the earth was mined from the same site as a previous job.
We knew from before that this particular mine gave earth with a very nice percentage of clay to sand (25:75) which was ideal to work with, but even so we still carried out the basic tests to see how the mixtures fared in our particular conditions.
FROSTBITE – Who Pinched My Muff? | Garden Theatre at Eagle London
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December 11, 2020 FROSTBITE, Who Pinched My Muff – Bessy Ewa (Greta) Photo NatLPho
What is the essence of Panto with its cross-dressing, double entendres, broad campy characters and more-is-more costuming, makeup and theatrics? If you want to find out, get down to the Garden Theatre at Vauxhall’s Eagle Pub for what is quite possibly one of the funniest and purest Pantos you’ll ever experience – for grown-ups!
I’ve seen the big-budget productions at the Palladium with Julian Clary, Nigel Havers and Dawn French and Stephen Fry’s and Sandi Tosvig’s show at the Old Vic as well as sampled Panto-for-the-People under the Vault’s arches set in a dowdy working men’s club; I can confidently say that playwright Gareth Joyner and director Robert McWhir manage to deliver as much entertainment punch as the big showy outings (at a fraction of the ticket price) but far more jo