Shortly after I had contacted the association 'Arpe' (that promotes ecoconstruction in Basse Normandy) to let them know that I was undertaking an ecological renovation, I had a phonecall from a college teacher asking if he could bring a group of students to work with me on the house for a couple of days. The association are called 'Formabois'. The students worked to replace a wooden panel at the front of house and learned to prepare a torchis mixture of earth and hay and to apply it to the framework that they had built:
Above: Two students observe as their teacher levers the beam into place.
Above: Fitting an upright into a mortice.
Above: The shaving horse I made in the UK serves for shaping the pegs to hold the beams in place.
Above: The students apply the torchis mixture to the wooden panel they had constructed the day before.
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