Friday - young volunteers and squelchy clay render!

Today was all about the clay render of the straw bale walls (and finishing the roof structure). Here is our lovely volunteer Maria making sure there are no gaps in the straw bales before the clay render is applied.....

 

We were joined on site in the morning by a group of young people taking part in the Avon Wildlife Trust programme 'Tomorrow's People'. They were keen to get stuck in with the mixing up of the base coat of clay render....this is done using your feet and is a very pleasing but rather squelchy process! Here they are in action.....

We were also joined on site my Matthew, another of our lovely Shape My City 2015 young people - he got stuck in with all aspects of the build and a was a master clay plasterer by the end of the afternoon!

Our young 'Tomorrow's People' volunteers set to work applying the clay base coat to one of the walls...after some initial concerns about getting messy, most of them got stuck in and did a great job.

A busy afternoon then lay ahead for the core build team....there was lots to be done and it was going to be a late one.......check out our next blog post to see if we got the structure finished on time........