A glance at websites on straw bale homes might give you the impression that pests and straw do not mix. Wrong! It maybe uncommon, but pests can inhabit straw bale walls, as a client recently discovered. A problem with moths Two years ago we did carpentry and joinery work for Read more
‘Sustainable’ is a buzz word that businesses like to use. It is often a short hand way of saying “We’re doing our bit for the environment”. However, ‘sustainability’ is about more than preserving nature; it is also about people. Sustaining our Locality Oliver Gibbs Carpentry and Joinery joined the Shropshire Read more
In choosing a carpenter, most people consider ‘will this person do a good job’, but not ‘will this carpenter be fuelling the illegal trade in timber’. The United Nations declared 2011 to be the ‘International Year of Forests’ and presented some eye-opening figures. 31% of the world’s land is made Read more
Oliver Gibbs was commissioned to help build an ecological office in Minsterley with lime-rendered straw walls and a turf roof