[Greenbuilding] manure containing daub/hair in plaster

[Chris Koehn]

The 19th C buildings I worked on in Wisconsin and elsewhere that were wattle and daub (as part of the German "fachwerk" wall technique) used hair that was brushed from horses in the spring when they shed their winter coat. Not enough rejuvenating hair in a horse's tail to amount to much. The fibres are remarkably similar to the chopped fibreglass that's sometimes used to reinforce concrete slabs these days.
The Germans also used a clay "nogging" technique in Wisconsin, as documented and reconstructed here: <http://centrevillesettlement.com/claynognlutze.htm>

Chris Koehn
TimberGuides Design&build

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