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Alex Johnson of Shedworking makes it into The Independent ahead of National Shed Week
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The technical jargon is a bit beyond me, but I think this article translates to “Taylor Wimpey are in the shit”. Would love to see them sell off some of the land they’ve been hoarding. I mean, have you seen the price of plots lately?
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Useful site if you’re in the US, but for the rest of us, not so much really.
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A tutorial for building with cob, including fun time-lapse video
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If you’re an avid Grand Designs fan, you’ve probably seen the work of Carpenter Oak and Carpenter Oak & Woodland, who built the Argyll timber-framed house. I met Carpenter Oak at Grand Designs Live, and was delighted to later discover that their sister company, Carpenter Oak & Woodland (yes, I know it’s confusing!) have a blog. Although it is updated only sporadically, it’s worth taking a look through the archives as there’s some very interesting stuff hidden away there. Andy Parker points out that oak isn’t the only timber and gets cross at Martin Clarke of British Precast (whose job it is to promote concrete) for calling for a moratorium on timber use in multi-storey developments because of one fire. Tim Burrell talks about how no one seems to know what ‘environmentally responsible’ means, writes a really interesting post dissecting the poor build quality of an oak frame house featured in an issue of Homebuilding and Renovating magazine, and explains what green oak is.
The quality of the writing is great, but I’d like to see a lot more of it! The blog hasn’t been updated since March, and it’d be great if we could get at least one blog post each week. I’d also like Tim and Andy to remember that not everyone reading their blog is an expert in timber framing - they need to explain their jargon as they use it, so that us novices can learn something as we go along. Unfortunately, their RSS feed provides only headlines, and the archive navigation is so difficult that I gave up trying to dig into their old posts via the website and just read the ones still in the RSS feed. With my social media consultant hat on, I’d suggest getting Wordpress installed and using that for all things bloggish.
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Naps are important, so any future home office of mine will hopefully have a suitable couch for napping too, so that I can easily grab 40 winks.
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“on purely environmental grounds the policy of “use less wood” is anti-environmental. ” I’m not the only one who thinks that trees are an ecologically valuable crop. This long essay is well worth a read, but if you want to cut to the chase, go to P15.
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Fascinating article criticial of modernist architecture and contrasting it with that of Leon Krier, who takes a much more sympathetic classical approach. You can immediately see how Krier’s community-focused ideas are much more human and sustainable.
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Make your own geodesic dome, admittedly out of card or paper, but hey, could be something to show the artchitects.
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LiveModern is an “online community for modern, sustainable housing design, products and services” which provides forums, blogs for members and aggregates content from relevant blogs around the world. It also has a handy blog directory which features a lot of build blogs, most of which are in the US, but others of which are in places as diverse as Montserrat in the West Indies, and the Swedish archipelago. (Thanks to Alex for the tip!)
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KnM makes the Birmingham Post.
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