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The same wall with hempcrete cast and shaped.
Particular attention needs to be paid to how hempcrete walling will interact with the roof
at the eaves, and with the bottom of the wall above ground level. Heritage properties are
unlikely to have a damp-proof course, so a robust detail must be designed to ensure that it
is not vulnerable to moisture ingress at the base of the wall.
The method of actually mixing and placing the hempcrete in heritage properties will be
broadly similar to the method in a new build, although on heritage jobs the total amount
needed is often smaller, and the work much more fiddly, than for a new build of the same
size. For this reason it sometimes makes more sense to use a couple of bell concrete mixers
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