"Modern Wattle and Daub" Topic
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| dandiggler | 20 Oct 2008 9:24 a.m. PST |
I'm getting ready to paint some wattle and daub buildings from Hudson and Allen so I started doing a little bit of research to make them look accurate. In the wiki article on W&D I noticed a mention of it making somewhat of a comeback. I also ran into a blog where a modern version of the technique was used to construct a building in Yorkshire dubbed the EcoDepot back in '06. I'm just curious, has anyone across the pond there seen more of these buildings popping up? Is this truly a viable modern technique? |
| x42brown | 20 Oct 2008 9:47 a.m. PST |
It's manpower intensive and so not cheep. Unless people are prepared to pay more for the work or skilled labour drops in price I don't think it could become widespread. The finished result is viable the problem is in affording the manpower for the job. x42 |
 Jlundberg  | 20 Oct 2008 3:53 p.m. PST |
Both Worst Jobs in History and Dirty Jobs have done segments on Wattle and Daub. Bottom line was that you could pay a lot of money for a small house that smelled strongly of cow dung. The dung acts as a binder agent. I can't see convincing my wife to go for it. |
| x42brown | 21 Oct 2008 5:32 a.m. PST |
Yes that's another problem. Customer resistance. x42 |
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