Summer Newsletter 2015

Ty-Mawr ˆ www.lime.org.uk

Summer 2015

Sustainable building materials for healthier homes Deunyddiau adeiladu cynaliadwy ar gyfer cartrefi iachach

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.

•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

• Laths, Wattle and Battens.

• Tools and Books.

Services

•S ite visits with condition reports and problem identification.

• Product support

• Established courses

• 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: tymawr@lime.org.uk

Sustainable Insulation Systems - LABC Registered n Insulated Limecrete and Sublime® floors

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In the UK, 1 in 4 of our homes has ‘solid’ walls, and around 45% of the heat lost in an un-insulated solid walled home is through the walls.

In the drive towards energy efficiency and carbon savings, we are all being encouraged to insulate our homes. If all solid walls were insulated, there would be a massive carbon dioxide saving of 16,000,000 tonnes per annum - equivalent to the emissions from 2.7 million homes for a year. Solid walled buildings are often described as ‘hard to treat’ because they need more care; it is important not to simply add a high performance insulation material as solid walled buildings need to allow moisture to evaporate, therefore any insulation solution must work in the same way as the building, to avoid the problems associated with trapped moisture such as mold growth and condensation. Ty-Mawr ˆ is one of the UK market leaders in developing insulation solutions for solid wall buildings using natural materials and have recently received LABC (Local Authority Building Control) Registered details for the SecilVit External Wall Insulation system using cork boards and renders. Continued on page 3

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Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Corporate Responsibility credentials recognised by Parliament In April, we heard that Ty-Mawr ˆ had won an All-PartyPRODUCT Parliamentary Corporate Responsibility Group Business Champions (APCRG) award, nominated by Roger Williams, TECHNICAL former MP for Brecon & Radnorshire.

Yesterday (July 15th) Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Managing Director, TABLES Joyce Gervis, was invited to the Palace of Westminster to be recognised with nine other companies from across the UK who had (Requires a water-based or silicate-based finish)

been shortlisted. Joyce said: “It was an honour to attend the reception in the Speaker’s House yesterday; we felt hugely proud to be shortlisted along with businesses such as London City Airport (overall winner), M&S and Fujitsu UK”. Nigel Gervis, Technical Director, commented: “Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Ltd’s founding principles were to make sure that both our products and our actions were focussed on caring for buildings, Thermal Thickness caring for the environment, caring for people/health, and at the same Resistance R (mm) time support local communities through using local raw materials (m2.K/W) and local skills where possible. Although operating on a much 60 1,50 smaller scale than many other companies shortlisted, this award 80 2,00 shows that the impact of our business principles and practices over 100 2,50 the last 20 years have not gone unnoticed”. The APCRG judging 120 3,00 panel consisted of Baroness Greengross, Jonathan Djanogly MP, Baroness Howe of Idlicote and Nick Hurd MP. 140 3,50 160 4,00 2015/16 Catalogue out now... order your copy!’

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Welsh Wool on Rolls!

COURSES AND EVENTS An Introduction to Thatching course 15th July An Introduction to Lime & Lime Plastering course 13th-14th August (Fully Booked) 24th-25th September 15th-16th October

12th-13th November Forthcoming Events: See us at: The Royal Welsh Show 20th-23rd July The Green Man Festival 20th-23rd August

We are delighted to confirm that our Welsh Wool insulation is now available on rolls (CosyWool) as well as the highly successful batts (Original). Rolls offer transport savings as well as being easier to handle in lofts and are more economic. It is an excellent choice for those wanting to build and renovate sustainably, using local raw materials which contribute in a small way to supporting our rural economy and way of life. These Welsh wool products are unique to Ty-Mawr ˆ and are only available through ourselves and our stockists.

Visit www.lime.org.uk for details.

Blaenavon Ironworks benefit from a Ty-Mawr ˆ Consultancy Visit

Following a Consultancy Site Visit by Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Heritage Asset Advisor, Sam Hale, accompanied by CADW and UK Restoration Services, the Stack Square cottages at the Blaenavon Ironworks World Heritage Site have benefited from being re-limewashed with our External Limewash, and their windows and doors have been painted with our Beeck’s Stand Oil paints. The area around Blaenavon is one of the finest examples in the world of a landscape created by mining and ironmaking in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The BBC television series, ‘Coal House’, was filmed on the site, and subsequently attracted thousands of new visitors to witness how difficult life was for working families there.

Cardigan Castle refurbishment

Courses

As well as our popular annual programme of lime courses, we have been delighted to deliver courses for CADW Stonemasons, for Women in Heritage Construction: Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme administered by the Tywi Centre, and a Heritage Skills Course for pupils and the local community in Pontypridd.

We were delighted to have supplied contractors Welsh Heritage Construction with Riven Oak Laths and traditional Fat Lime Plasters for the repairs. Cardigan Castle reopened to the local community on Tuesday 14th April 2015 following a four-year, £12m restoration. For 15 years the Ceredigion community campaigned to save the site which has been restored into a heritage attraction and events venue, with holiday accommodation and a restaurant. The site opened to the general public on Wednesday 15th April 2015.

CPD

We are also continuing to offer CPDs for architects and other building professionals. Our Technical Director, Nigel Gervis has been in great demand, travelling the length and breadth of the country and sharing his knowledge on ‘Lime: Traditional building products for today’s world’.

For information on our courses and CPD’s please contact martin.tavener@lime.org.uk.

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New Improved

GLAPOR

Since winning the LABC Cymru ‘Best Technical Innovation’ Award, sales of our Sublime® insulated limecrete floor have gone from strength to strength. A key component of the system is GLAPOR – recycled foamed glass (RFG) gravel. It has the ability to compact to a weight bearing surface and has the benefit of being sustainable in that it is manufactured using 100% recycled glass. Glapor’s foamed glass gravel is now an industry leader for compressive strength and insulation performance (0.78 W/mK) while providing drainage and protection from moisture due to its natural wicking barrier. For further details or to discuss your project, contact Jon Allen on 01874 611350 or via technical@lime org.uk.

BBA Certification for Intello Plus

This month we learned that the pro clima Intelligent Airtightness system, including the pro clima INTELLO PLUS intelligent airtightness and vapour control membrane, has met all the requirements set out by both the BBA (British Board of Agrément) and the NHBC. Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime’s Technical Director, Nigel Gervis, commented: “BBA is the UK’s major authority, offering approval and inspection services to manufacturers, installers, construction products and systems.” Nigel added: “It’s a high performance vapour retarding and airproofing system used to create an inner boundary for thermal insulation in roofs, walls, ceilings and floors.

It provides maximum protection from structural damage and mould, even in complex or demanding structures such as impermeable flat/pitched roofs, green roofs and in extreme environments such as high mountainous regions.”

EcoPro Emulsion

We’re delighted to extend our Earthborn range. As an addition to Earthborn Clay Paints, we now stock Earthborn Ecopro Emulsion - a healthy, high performance, environmentally sound alternative to conventional emulsions.

Its colour range features both traditional classics and sassy contemporaries.

Check out www.lime.org.uk for details.

Cork Insulation System gets approval in UK! Continued from front cover Cork is natural and renewable (extracted from the cork-oak tree every 9 years), it offers a breathable insulating material, free from any chemicals, synthetic resins or carcinogenic materials. The cork’s low thermal conductivity (λ=0,040 W/m.K) offers a high energy efficiency, thus contributing to a reduced environmental impact as well as offering economic savings. This system extends the already successful LABC registered EWI range at Ty-Mawr ˆ using Homatherm Woodfibre Boards. This woodfibre board is manufactured using a modern dry process without glues; it’s vapour permeability, high compressive strength and low thermal conductivity have

all contributed to the success of this system in the UK. Call our technical sales advisers on 01874 611350 to discuss your insulation requirements.

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.

You have to go to them sometimes.”

AA MILNE (Winnie the Pooh)

It’s not often that Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime, Winnie the Pooh, and Alice in Wonderland are mentioned in the same sentence.

However, this summer, Ty-Mawr’s ˆ products featured in Royal Horticultural Society Award-winning gardens.

Designer Lorna Davies won a Silver medal at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival where her ‘Alice in Wonderland’ creation used Ty-Mawr’s ˆ pigmented glaster®, which was rendered onto our Wood Wool Boards, which together provided a stunning backdrop for the entry. This was followed by a Gold medal for designer Anthea Guthrie at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show for her amazing creation, Winnie the Pooh Begins His Journey, where Ty-Mawr’s ˆ external limewash was used for AA Milne’s woodland shelter.

Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Heritage Asset Advisor, Sam Hale, commented: “These are amazing achievements and our congratulations go to them both.

It is always so nice to hear about the projects that our products are used on... it is the joy of the business really.”

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COMPANY NEWS

Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime on target to make excellence a habit!

Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Ltd’s green credentials were given a significant vote of confidence as it passed an Environmental Audit with flying colours.

Ty-Mawr ˆ is proud to have achieved and operates under the BS8555 Environmental Management System, a British Standard introduced in 2003 to promote best environmental practices for SMEs. The system challenges businesses to develop environmental management systems with the aim of becoming more environmentally friendly.

Managing Director, Joyce Gervis, said: “Caring for the Environment is one of our founding core principles and is at the heart of everything we do … it always has been and it always will be. This audit was an important milestone in the ongoing refinement of our working policies and practices.

Passing a rigorous audit like this does not happen by chance but is down to a lot of hard work and dedication by the team here at Ty-Mawr.” ˆ Joyce concluded: “An increasing number of customers now expect their suppliers to be able to demonstrate a commitment to environmental protection, and this is an unequivocal objective endorsement of our progress and commitment towards that. It shows that we really do practice what we preach!”

Technical Director steps in at CAT! In June, Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Technical Director, Nigel Gervis, stepped in at short notice to deliver a keynote lecture at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Machynlleth, sharing his knowledge and expertise about different types of lime in building, its history, its development and its uses. The lecture was delivered to students studying a Sustainable Materials in the Built Environment Module, part of an MSc Sustainability & Adaption programme run by CAT. Nigel assisted after Lime expert and world-renowned architect, Stafford

Holmes, (who was scheduled to deliver the session) was incapacitated following a fall. Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime were delighted to help out, albeit at short notice, and wish Stafford a speedy recovery.

Happy 200th Birthday, Singleton Birch!

Our congratulations go to one of our key suppliers, Singleton Birch Ltd, as they celebrate their 200th anniversary. Singleton Birch is the UK’s leading independent lime supplier, with a worldwide customer base. Their product range includes quicklime, hydrated lime, natural hydraulic lime, graded chalk, aggregates and other specialist products and services. The company was established in 1815 and is named after the founder, Wm. Singleton Birch, who was a minerals merchant.

Since the 1850s, Singleton Birch Ltd has been quarrying Lincolnshire chalk, and is now a global supplier of lime products and services.

Thanks received for our part in a never-to-be repeated event!

New distribution network in the North Ty-Mawr ˆ products are now available through JT Dove Ltd, a major stockist of building materials. Established in 1869, in Newcastle and one of the city’s very earliest merchants to supply the building industry, JT Dove is a major stockist of Timber, Plumbing & Building Materials, with 15 outlets serving every sector of the construction industry in the North of England and Scotland.

The Directors and staff at Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Ltd were delighted to receive a letter from the Dean of Leicester Cathedral expressing his thanks for the part Ty-Mawr ˆ played in an event of historical and international significance, namely the reinterment of King Richard III. Ty-Mawr’s ˆ involvement in this event started in 2014 when it was selected by the architects to Leicester Cathedral, van Heyningen & Haward, to design the floor to hold the tomb being prepared for the reinterment of the last Plantagenet King of England. Ty-Mawr’s ˆ original brief was to undertake the design, as well as the supply of the materials for our innovative Sublime® limecrete flooring system which was subsequently installed in the Cathedral as part of its £2.5m refurbishment works. The Very Reverend David Monteith explained that eyes of the world witnessed a historic series of events that will never be repeated. He said: “We have received numerous expressions of thanks and good wishes at the Cathedral, and on behalf of the city and county, relating to all aspects of the project, not least the craftsmanship and attention to detail that went into the physical works carried out in the Cathedral to make it all possible.”

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