Traditional building skills & conservation courses

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Architecture for 15 – 17 Year Olds - Nottingham Trent University

Architecture for 15 – 17 Year Olds - Nottingham Trent University

Nottinghamshire - Next course on 27th July 2020

This one week architecture summer course for teenagers explores new ways of thinking and advanced technologies that are being used by professional architects today. The course will introduce you to contemporary approaches to design, with ingenious projects that will develop your awareness of how designers are shaping the modern world we live in. During this course you will: - investigate current building projects in the UK and around the world - learn the various stages of design development that professionals must go through - go on excursions to see local...

Strawbale Building Course in Devon

Strawbale Building Course in Devon

An exciting and hands on course to equip you with the knowledge and experience to build with this ecological and versatile resource. Straw bale construction has many advantages. Straw is widely available and a by- product of crop production. It’s affordable and renewable, and carries a far smaller carbon footprint than more commonly used building methods. Straw bales are incredibly insulating and make exceedingly energy efficient buildings. A straw bale construction will save you money not only in the initial building costs, but year after year with its insulating properties....

Medieval Foliage Stone Carving

Medieval Foliage Stone Carving

This course is designed for those with a practical interest in medieval art and stone carving and will suit both compete beginners and those with some stone carving experience. The course will take place in Nick's timber frame studio in the village of Drayton on the Somerset Levels. The development and evolution of foliage through the Anglo Saxon, Romanesque and Early English periods will be explained and discussed. The first day will be spent learning to carve basic geometry patterns and simple leaf forms to develop tool skills. The second...

Beginners DIY day course

Beginners DIY day course

Surrey - Next course on 16th November 2019

For dates and to book please click on the 'View website' link above. This course is aimed at the home owner who would like to build their home maintenance, repair and home renovating skills. During this one day course you will learn the following: Course content: - How to drill into plasterboard, wood, concrete, glass and brick - Replacing a door (hanging the door, replacing hinges, installing door hardware-handle & lock) - Repairing plasterboard (cracks, small and large holes) - Blocking up a doorway or opening up a wall -...

Cob clay pizza oven building with David Alty: a 'Quirky Workshop' at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns near Penrith and Ullswater

Cob clay pizza oven building with David Alty: a 'Quirky Workshop' at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns near Penrith and Ullswater

DATES: Our full year of 100+ set workshop dates are on OUR website (purple tab) along with availability and how to book. Next year’s extensive programme of Quirky Workshops will be launched in late October; often courses fill quickly as they make popular Christmas gifts. To be amongst the first to receive the new dates, please use the ‘Keep me Posted’ icon, at the top RHS of our website page. Thank you and Happy Crafting! ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Over this busy one day course (originally a two day affair) you...

Lime Day - Plasters, Mortars, Renders & Washes

Lime Day - Plasters, Mortars, Renders & Washes

Learn all about lime as a building material through theory and practical work, for maintenance, renovation and new builds. Lime is an invaluable material, both in new sustainable building and when renovating and repairing older properties. Lime Day covers all relevant topics, from health and safety basics to mixing and applying mortars, renders, plasters and washes. It also covers basic 'old house' technology which is invaluable for anyone living in an property with solid walls. During the day the following topics will be covered: History of lime, from the mists...

An introduction to traditional timber framing

An introduction to traditional timber framing

Suffolk - Next course on 21st April 2020

This introduction to traditional timber framing course is for complete beginners to traditional carpentry as a method of construction. Whether you are a home-owner who wants to learn how your timber frame is constructed, or you are looking at self-build, or you are a surveyor needing to understand the strength of the frame design, this course will provide you with the basics and more. Your tutor Rick Lewis has over 30 years of timber framing and runs his own Traditional Oak Carpentry business here in mid Suffolk. He has 10...

Earth & Cob Oven Building

Earth & Cob Oven Building

Cob oven workshop in Dorset. A one-day course with Rob Buckley, building a working earth oven in the beautiful Blackmore Vale. With a maximum of just eight people on the course, you will work together to build an earth cob oven on a plinth. During the day Rob will discuss different techniques for different earth mixes, so that you will have the skills to build one at home for yourself. This day is also a good introductory day to working with earth as a building material. Dorset Centre for Rural...

Vernacular building - environmentally sound, small scale

Vernacular building - environmentally sound, small scale

Suffolk - Next course on 2nd May 2020

Lower your carbon footprint by learning traditional methods of converting earth into cob, daub or clay lump. Make your own earth sculpture to take home. Find out how to use coppice woodland materials in construction. Try your hand at using a shave horse and draw knife. This experience day shows you how our ancestors built with their local landscape in low-tech and sustainable ways. Building is fun and easy. Think small and local. Involve your friends and family. Celebrate a special event or birthday by having fun in our rural...

Beginners’ Dry Stone Walling Course

Beginners’ Dry Stone Walling Course

Beginners’ Dry Stone Walling Course - weekend in the Yorkshire Dales The courses run from approximately 9:00am to 4:00pm over Saturday and Sunday and run throughout the year. Please get in touch for dates. During a training course you will: - Learn the basic principles of dry stone walling - Contribute to the conservation of our valuable local dry stone walls - Enjoy working in the countryside in a structured but informal atmosphere - Be taught by accredited DSWA instructors and members of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great...

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