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21 years at Ty-Mawr ˆ Nigel and Joyce, founders and directors of T y-Mawr, ˆ are this year celebrating 21 years at T y-Mawr. ˆ on our courses and thousands more at CPDs, In February 1993, having unexpectedly won the conferences etc. tender to purchase Tˆy-Mawr, a former farm , we moved in with a single horse box full of furniture, Our work has not gone unnoticed and we are very £1,500 remaining in our bank account and not proud to have won numerous awards particularly much else but we had huge passion, supportive over the last decade for our contributions to and energetic families and friends as well as what traditional and sustainable construction. The have transpired to be, very relevant skills! highlight however was the opening of our training Our vision was to restore Tˆy-Mawr using centre by Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince appropriate building materials whilst being of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall in 2009. We sensitive to our environment being a Site of had supplied materials for the refurbishment Special Scientific Interest. We had hard cement of their Welsh home - Llwynywermod and they renders trapping were interested to moisture (causing see where and how the house to be the materials were damp, cold, full of made. This marked condensation and a change in the way mushrooms) with leaky our materials as well 1993 roofs, rotten windows, as our approach to major structural building repair and defects to name but a construction were few of the challenges. perceived; no longer out of the ordinary Nigel had been using but now more traditional materials credible and even whilst working for a 2014 seen by some as specialist restoration essential to a more sustainable future! company, Capps and Capps. We knew therefore During this time, we have brought Tˆy-Mawr that we wanted to repair Tˆy-Mawr with traditional slowly back to life using predominately our own lime products but we were unable to source them materials and by implementing technologies to locally. We therefore started manufacturing lime help reduce our own carbon footprint such as products and, recognising a potential market, biomass heating and solar thermal panels. We established Tˆy-Mawr Lime in 1995. now have a ‘show home’ demonstrating that we The more we became involved with the do practice what we preach. Although there is still construction market, the more we recognised and much to do, our journey has inspired thousands became concerned about the enormous impact of people to think about a more sustainable of conventional materials on the environment. approach to buildings. We therefore started to identify, develop and Born into and growing up with the business bring to market a range of more sustainable everyday of their lives are our three boys (now materials including our Welsh wool insulation, 14,10 and 7) who have attended nearly every the Colours of Wales natural paint range, our show and event with us all over the country and hemp and cork plasters, glaster®, limecrete and indeed the world; from looking at conservation numerous boards and insulation materials made skills in India, cork plantations and lime quarries from natural, renewable and/or recyclable as well as locally sourced raw materials where possible. in Portugal, constructing and plastering a Our unique and comprehensive product range timber-frame house on the National Mall in now has some 1,600 products. We have also Washington DC, to being part of Europe’s largest developed and gained accreditation for some building exhibition in Italy and so it goes on. highly innovative insulation systems using natural They certainly have a very different idea of what materials including sublime® (see page 3). a ‘holiday’ is compared to many other children! We have lots of ambitions (still!) and with a strong client base, team and family who give us enormous support and encouragement, we hope to continue to move forward in an often challenging but gradually more informed and hence receptive world!
Natural Building Centre
The Natural Building Centre are based at Plas Tirion, a 16th century manor house near Llanrwst, in the heart of North Wales and on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park. They are one of our largest stockists of our materials in the North West, and offer courses in traditional building skills and consultancy services for the repair and restoration of traditional buildings. They have just completed their new shop and lecture room, and are installing a biomass heating system, enabling them to train throughout the year under cover. They are part of the European Future Heritage project bringing together Estonian, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Welsh partners to establish formal training in sustainable construction and the responsible retrofit of traditional buildings. In June they hosted the groups, along with Grwp Llandrillo Menai, demonstrating just how much Wales has to offer, in terms of working towards a sustainable future in construction. They are in the early stages of another exciting project in collaboration with the Tywi Centre in Llandeilo; The Heritage Bursary Scheme, offering training in building craft skills across Wales, which will run for two years. Fifteen apprentices will train each year to become skilled in masonry, carpentry and plastering. If you live or work in North Wales or are interested in becoming an apprentice, please visit The Natural Building Centre or visit our website www.thenaturalbuildingcentre.co.uk
Powys Business Finalists!
We at Tˆy-Mawr are delighted to be named as finalists in this year’s Powys Business Award in ‘the Development of New Markets’ category! We have already received awards and praise for our strong development of innovative and sustainable products, which has helped us move into different markets. As part of the award we will have short a film recorded at our distribution centre and new technical offices at Brecon enterprise park, which will showcase our expansion and innovative new products and systems for ecological and retrofit building. The results will be announced on the 3rd of October!
Farewell to Edward
In the summer, Edward Lewis, an architectural graduate from the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, leaves Tˆy-Mawr for pastures new in London. Edward has been working with us on technical drawings for our systems builds, development plans for our new unit as well as Tˆy-Mawr itself and Technical Sales. He will be greatly missed but we wish him all the very best in his new role with leading conservation architects - Donald Insall Associates.
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Products
Manufacturers & suppliers of: • Traditional Fat Lime Mortars and Plasters. • Limewashes and Pigments.
• glaster® - Plasters and Mortars.
• ecoCork Insulating Lime Render.
•N atural Insulation including Tˆy-Mawr Thermafleece® sheep’s wool, Thermafleece hemp, FlexCL recycled newspaper batts.
“Your work is truly exemplary and a model for the world to follow”. ARCHITECT, New York
Tˆy-Mawr doubles capacity
•F ull range of Singleton Birch (Secil), St Astier and Hanson Hydraulic Limes and Premixed Lime Products.
•W ide range of natural, breathable paints for internal and external walls and woodwork.
•B uilding boards/plaster carriers including Reed Mats, Reed Boards, Wood Wool Boards and Woodfibre Boards. •S pecialist stone repair mortar (Lithomex) and decorative/polished plaster (Decoliss) • Proclima airtightness solutions (see page 3) • Laths, Wattle and Battens. • Tools and Books.
Services
•S ite visits with condition reports and problem identification. • Product support
• Established courses (see page 2) • Product information days
• RIBA-accredited CPD seminars
•H istoric Research, Consultancy and Heritage Asset advice • Site supervision and bespoke training
•V isits to Ty-Mawr ˆ farm for interested groups (by prior arrangement) • Hire of our Grade II* listed Training Centre •L ake-side camping for courses and CPD delegates For details email: info@lime.org.uk
Sustainable Insulation Systems - LABC Registered n Insulated Limecrete and Sublime® floors nW arm roof systems for new build and renovation / conservation projects. n I nternal and external wall insulation systems for new build and renovation / conservation projects. n New timber-frame wall systems M
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So from a bath and two rakes in 1995, we have developed into a multi-million pound business operating out of three sites and processing in excess of 10,500 orders per annum. We have supported over 20,000 clients on 100,000s of projects and trained over 10,000 delegates
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in June 2014 that’s open to householders in England and Wales who install Green Deal energy-saving measures. The Government is offering funding of up to £7,600 to help offset your costs. To qualify for any funding, the measures you are putting in need to be recommended in a Green Deal Assessment Report prepared by an accredited Green Deal Adviser. A Green Deal Adviser will undertake an energy assessment of your home and ask to see your energy bills, to classify you as a low, medium or high user and predict your savings. Your advice report will spell out if it’s a good deal for you and you can decide if it’s the right time for you to make home energy improvements”. For further information, email Candace at office@energysavingltd.co.uk or see her in the Countryside Skills Area with Ty-Mawr ˆ at this year’s Royal Welsh show.
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Tˆy-Mawr’s clients have started to benefit from Green Deal assistance using Tˆy-Mawr’s LABC registered insulation systems. Candace Brown from Llandeilo based Energy Saving Ltd said “Energy efficiency isn’t just about saving the planet, it can save you £100’s each year on your energy bills and just as importantly make your home a cosier place to live. The Green Deal gives you the opportunity to improve your property’s energy efficiency with no upfront costs and is paid back over a specified time via a charge on your existing electricity bill. You pay back only what you are predicted to save on bills, so there is no NET increase in cost, and your home will be more efficient. There’s also a new scheme, the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF) launched
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Unit 5, Brecon Enterprise Park
Brecon-based Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Ltd is delighted to have been awarded a £126,000 grant through the Wales Economic Growth Fund, in support of a £650,000 total investment in their expansion project. Having purchased Unit 5 (above) in the first help us to maintain momentum as interest quarter of 2014, the recently awarded in this market grows”. Welsh Government support now enables Nigel Gervis, Technical Director said: Ty-Mawr ˆ to start to implement their “We are delighted that the three year expansion plan. The Welsh Assembly has chosen works will include establishing a Welsh to support Ty-Mawr, ˆ and new technical support office with Assembly by implication the wider more meeting rooms and training ecological-building industry, Support facilities, establishing a mortar further enabling us to create Expansion analysis laboratory, a dedicated jobs and growth in midnatural paint production facility, Plans Wales whilst increasing further warehousing as well as a new our overall efficiency and yard with bays and state of the art doubling our capacity. This blending and bagging facilities. ambitious project will be delivered over the Joyce Gervis, Managing Director said: next ten months, creating 7 jobs within the “The grant comes at an important time project period and a further 3 by the end of for the business. The green construction 2015. We very much industry is predicted to see exponential look forward to this T yˆ -Mawr growth of 22.8% per annum until 2017, opportunity to make the expansion opportunities offered by our an even greater Busines 2014 - 2017 s Plan new unit will enable us to meet the evercontribution to the increasing demands for the supply of our Green construction Confident ial energy efficient, sustainable building and industry and insulation materials. Our innovative wall, to both the local floor and roof insulation systems have rural and wider established the business as one of the UK Welsh economy’. market leaders in this field; the grant will sustainable
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Sales and Tel: 01874 Distribution, Units 5 and 611350 Fax: 12, Brecon 01874 622774 Enterprise Training and Park, Brecon, Manufacturing, Powys LD3 Ty-Mawr ˆ 8BT , Llangasty, Brecon, Powys LD3 7PJ
Distribution warehouse: Units 5 and 12, Brecon Enterprise Park, Brecon, Powys LD3 8BT Tel: 01874 611350 Fax: 01874 622774 Training and Manufacturing: T y-Mawr, ˆ Llangasty, Brecon, Powys LD3 7PJ www.lime.org.uk
COURSES AND EVENTS
2014 Courses & CPD Continuing from the success of our courses during 2013, we are offering a wide range of exciting courses again in 2014 including our ever popular Introduction to Lime in Building and Lime Plastering days, which continue to draw in delegates from around the UK. We are also continuing to offer CPDs for architects and other building professionals, and are setting up hands-on training CPDs at Ty-Mawr ˆ Farm which also double as teambuilding exercises. Please contact sam.hale@lime.org.uk for more information. “Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the CPD, It was so useful and we could have listened to Nigel for another couple of hours – your products are so relevant to the buildings of both the past and the future”. - Donald Insall Architects, April14
Llwyn Celyn - Grade 1 Listed Farmstead
PRODUCT NEWS
We were delighted to join the Landmark Trust at Llwyn Celyn on the 3rd of July for the visit of His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.
NEW Superfine Finish Plaster
Llwyn Celyn is a rare survival of a remarkably complete, Grade I, high status late-15th century farmstead. It is of outstanding importance not just to Welsh and British heritage, but also internationally.
Our Technical Director, Nigel Gervis was invited along to share the enthusiasm and support for this beautiful building on such an important day in its long history! It was an honour to be part of the celebration acknowledging the hard work of CADW and the Landmark Trust in securing its purchase and contribution
T y-Mawr ˆ at CALCH’s Lime Heritage Day
Upcoming Courses Introduction to Lime, Lime plastering Thu 21, Fri 22 August, Thu 25, Fri 26 September. Check out course dates on our website for details of our energy efficiency, limecrete, thatching, colour and drystone walling courses in 2014.
Upcoming Events See us at:
CALCH is an exciting project, enabling visitors to discover how the lime industry helped to build Wales! It is centred around the historic Herbert’s lime quarry and kilns on the striking Black Mountain, part of the Brecon Beacons’ Forest Fawr Geopark. Ty-Mawr ˆ exhibited at CALCH’s Lime Heritage Discovery Day at Llangadog on the 7th June, where visitors learned about the history of the lime industry, from the Rebecca Riots, the burning and slaking process and its impact historically on our buildings, landscapes and even modern art!
•T he Royal Welsh Show 21st - 24th July •T he Green Man Festival 14th - 17th August
to its future with the help of the Heritage Lottery fund. We look forward to being part of this historically and culturally important project. See www.landmarktrust.org.uk for further information or to see ways in which you could help to save Llwyn Celyn.
significant for the over 100 attendees involved in building, construction and restoration work throughout North Wales.
North Wales has an extremely high proportion of solid-wall buildings, particularly in its housing stock; it is critical to their maintenance that the appropriate materials and techniques are used, and so the event was particularly
On-site advice/supervision/training
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Superfine Finish plaster. It is ideally suited to creating outstandingly flat and smooth internal finishes, as typified by Regency plasterwork.
North Wales CPD Event
On the 4th of April we were pleased to be part of a joint event with Richard Williams Builders and the Natural Building Centre in Llanwrst.
Herberts Quarry
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Rob Stewart, Richard Williams Director, was present at the event and reported a highly positive response and feedback to the presentations:“I was surprised and delighted to see such an eclectic mix of people attending the event, from students and homeowners to conservationists, architects, contractors and members of the local council! The presentations by Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime were brilliant, useful and relevant to all of us. I feel that everyone has taken away really vital information from this event that they can put into practice.”
Ty-Mawr ˆ sponsors Hay Festival
Robert Scourfield is pictured above at the event with Justin Albert, Director of National Trust Wales.
We were very proud to sponsor Robert Scourfield who delivered the Inaugural Smith-Soldat Memorial Lecture – The Buildings of Wales: Powys, at this year’s Hay Festival.
Detailing all the buildings of significance in the historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire, this final volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series details hill-forts, ruined castles, medieval churches, manor houses and industrial buildings. We were extremely flattered to find that in the updated entry for Ty-Mawr, ˆ the ‘rescuing’ of Ty-Mawr ˆ farm from dereliction has been personally attributed, to us, Nigel & Joyce Gervis.
Singleton Birch NHL2 - now in stock! The NHL2 Natural Hydraulic Lime product from Singleton Birch is now available. It is produced in Portugal by Secil who have been producing high quality limes for over 100 years. It is the softer of the hydraulic limes so is considered to be the ideal choice where flexibility and vapour permeability are significant, it is therefore primarily used for internal work and external work in sheltered areas on strawbale, cob, soft masonry or brick. Contact us for a technical data sheet - technical@lime.org.uk
Sublime Sales for Sublime® Since winning the LABC Cymru - Best Technical Innovation award in the spring of 2013 - sublime® sales have increased by some 69% on the previous year! Our professional product support team have been joined by Jon Allen, a graduate engineer, who is kept busy with thermal calculations for the floors as well as the LABC registered roof and wall systems. Email him on technical@lime.org.uk should you require any calculations for your project! Geotextile 40mm Cork Board
Land-drain
(Edge insulation optional )
(optional not part of the system)
Run-off membrane
Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Screed Geotextile Geogrid Clip rails for floor heating system (if required, not supplied by Ty-Mawr) ˆ
Ty-Mawr ˆ Insulating Hardcore
Warm Roof Mr and Mrs Morris chose our warm roof for their new sustainable extension:
Geotextile Subsoil
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External Wall Insulation
Flame Proof Board! We are delighted to add the new EnergiePlus FR from Homatherm to our range! It is a homogeneous plaster base board with optimised fire protection to Euro class C “flame resistant” in accordance with DIN EN 13501-1. This plaster base board sets new standards for natural insulation products. For further information see www.lime.org.uk or call our technical team on 01874 611350!
The Penpont Estate chose our cork boards and cork insulating render to upgrade the insulation value of their solid walled building.
Now available!
The Lime Handbook by Nigel and Joyce Gervis was written to support their courses but is now also available to purchase - see www.lime.org.uk for further copies.
Thermafleece Sheep-wool undergoes re-branding!
We now offer St Astier’s excellent stone repair mortar which can be colour matched for your stone. Please contact us for details! Before
The UK has demanding targets, backed up by policy and legislation, to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. Clients are recognising the potential of our products and systems to assist them with reducing their own emissions with fully tested and approved solutions, here are some examples:
Ty-Mawr ˆ Insulating Hardcore
Perforated pipe
Order the Updated Lime Handbook!
Specialist stone repair mortar
Clients reduce their carbon footprint naturally!
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EcoRoll becomes Thermafleece CosyWool
TF35 becomes Thermafleece UltraWool
Thermafleece Thermafleece Hemp becomes Original remains Thermafleece the Original! NatraHemp.
Proclima products provide a permanent, airtight seal when installed correctly. Products include: INTELLO plus Intelligent vapour check and airtight membrane. TESCON VANA Multi-purpose adhesive tape for airtight bond at membrane overlaps. CONTEGA SL Airtight, vapour resistant window plaster sealing tape. ORCON F Multi-purpose flexible joint adhesive for indoor and outdoor applications. TESCON PROFIL Multi-purpose flexible sealing tape for windows, doors and corner junctions. Grommets
All materials and specifications remain unchanged, so you can continue to expect the same excellent performance and ecological benefits of the Thermafleece product range!
For the latest news, case studies, product list, descriptions, current prices, application guides, technical sheets, quantity calculators and full electronic shopping – visit our website www.lime.org.uk