Filling holes and Fast wheels

Matilda has been filling these conduits with hempcrete left over from the end of the day.

She hands them to me and I insert them into the holes and use a piece of bamboo to push the hempcrete into the wall. It is a job that needs to be done yet we are able to complete it in a relaxed way, when we have both the time and the leftover hempcrete.

The fast wheels are used to provide something more substantial for the hempcrete to hold on to when we have only 50mm deep hempcrete. We are experimenting with this and some of the wheels have had some OSB added to make it easier to pack hempcrete behind the fast wheel.

Pushing in the hempcrete using the bamboo.

the completed western wall with holes filled

This is a filled in hole,  I have tried to make it either flush or a little
under so that it will be easier for the renderer to achieve a flat surface

We have added a little piece of OSB when we screw in the fast wheels to give it some depth.
Hopefully by doing this we will give the hempcrete something firmer to hold on to when there
is only 50mm of hempcrete.

The fast wheels get covered up with the hempcrete. Note we have also
painted the nail with bituminous paint.