Eco : Hemp and Lime

Don’t worry. This doesn’t involve mixing buckets of hemp and lime together with some water and throwing it at your timber frame.

Having said that, the principle is pretty similar: you take some hemp, some lime and some water, mix it all together but instead of throwing it at your specially-designed timber frame specialist contractors ‘cast’ it around the frame to produce a solid external wall.

This product is a superb method of construction offering thermal mass (but without concrete!) and genuine eco credentials.

It’s called Tradical® Hemcrete®, and it’s how we like to design and build eco homes.

You need to know:

English Brothers were the first company in the UK to design, engineer and manufacture a frame designed specifically for use with Hemcrete® for a self-build.