michael pope

Hi Travis. i am considering to move the wall so that there is 10cm of LSC covering the post on the outside and and on the post is flush with the wall on the inside.  then i just have to cover the post (20cm wide) with something (mesh or otherwise to plaster over it) so its sort of a leaves me to work it out during plastering... but at least the wall will be stable along the posts. if anyone has any other suggestions or thoughts, i always welcome them.... but time is sort of limited, this is china and they literally work around the clock on these large construction jobs in the countryside.

thanks travis. the wood is old recycled from torn down houses, so there's no issues with any shrinkage. i think the idea about the chicken wire will probably work well. maybe jest leave small spacers between the wood and the chicken wire the LSC can get into that space...

thanks for your response Gerry. I was wondering then, if i am tamping the light straw clay then it seems that having nails in place would get in the way of tamping (with all the nails in there). is it that you put in the nails after the tamping? with cob its easy but with the small space between the form and the LSC with a bunch of nails in there, i don't think that's possible. Any thoughts on that. Thanks

I am working on a building for a job in the countryside in china. In part of the building the client wants the timber frames inside the light straw clay walls. The walls are 30cm thick and the timber frame (square) posts are 20X20cm, so that would leave 5cm if light straw clay on both sides of the timber frames to tamp in the LSC. Is it possible to imbed that into the light straw clay wall, or is that too thin of for the wall to hold. I'm concerned that it might fall off the wall in the thin areas where the LSC covers the posts. They also are in areas around corners where the posts have to embedded (leaving 5 cm of space to tamp into). I could make the walls 35 cm... but it really feels like a thick wall at that point

Much thanks in advance.