Our building team has just built it’s first ‘paid for’ hemcrete wall. We had only done small testers so far, so this is our first proper one!!! It is for a firewall within an attic, perfect material for the job.
What an amazing material is all I can say. It is super easy to mix in a pan mixer, mixes in 3 – 5 minutes into a lightweight, mess free mixture. We transported it to site in the crates we normally transport our bags of lime in and then used a garden fork to dig it back out into rhino tubs.
In one hour, with one person filling the tubs and one person emptying and tamping down, we loaded 1200 kg of hemcrete into place within shuttering in a very awkward attic space. This equates to just over 2 cubic meters of dry hemcrete.
Other than using poured concrete within shutters I can’t think of a quicker method of construction. There is no back breaking or straining involved because it is so light, there’s no appreciable time spent clearing up afterwards, just a quick brush up.
We were converts before we started using it properly but now we will have to start preaching!!!