Hempcrete spray contractor and green buildings consultant
What’s new on HLS website
I’ve decided to update this website more regularly with photos, videos and info on building with hempcrete.
You can see the most notable buildings I’ve been involved with and more projects, showing a selection of the sites I have worked on – proving how versatile hempcrete is for a wide variety of building projects.
Here’s a great video of an ongoing hempcrete build that I hired the shutters and mixer for.
A while back I wrote an article about using hempcrete as a sustainable building material. You can read the online version at https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/why-hemp-should-be-used-as-a-sustainable-building-material/6022/
We’ve just added a description and video of the hempcreting work we carried out to renovate a traditional Norfolk farmhouse in 2020. This video features the technique of spraying using a laser as a guide.
My latest post discusses the advantages of using hempcrete in the restoration and conservation of older buildings.
One of our featured buildings pages shows the restoration of a fifteenth century timber-framed house in Essex, detailing the process and using photos and video to illustrate how we work.
We now have a detailed step-by-step guide to building a small hempcrete garden studio or office. You can see the progress so far on building the base, walls and roof, plus how I got around the problem of plastering the back wall so close to the fence line.
On Instagram you can follow the ongoing progress of two of the projects we have been involved with.
Have a look at https://www.instagram.com/old_threshing_barn/ to see the conversion of an old brick threshing barn in Norfolk into a family home.
In 2021 we worked on this site, https://www.instagram.com/our_old_barn/ spraying hempcrete panels between the timbers of an ancient grade II listed barn in West Sussex.
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Thanks Graham for the very informative day yesterday at Levenshulme. I spoke to you about building a ‘shed’ on my allotment to replace the current dilapidated one which is about 5m x 3.5m. Would like to progress in the summer so please add me to any mailing list you have