The walls have been strengthened with card inserts to prevent warping. These make the walls very strong. Some can be removed later once the Das clay has dried to ease fitting of windows.
The walls are painted with dilute PVA.
The Das is rolled out to a 1mm thickness
Sheets of Das are pressed onto the walls.
The window and door apertures are roughly pushed through.
The once pristine card shell now looks rather ragged, but this will change once the surface is sanded and the corners filed to shape. The far end of the row is of rendered stone which will be created using a different technique. I am going to experiment sprinkling a PVA surface with sand or pepper for this.
The chimneys are prepared separately and will be fixed in place once the windows and roof is in place. The whole shell is now left to dry thoroughly before carving the stone courses can start.
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