Want to build your own eco-house, or work in eco-construction? Then you need this lime-plaster coating technique! Come learn how to coat exterior walls with a beautiful natural and durable finish. It’s particullary adapted for the strawbale building technique developed by the GREB ecovillage.

This very popular workshop is back! This time, you’ll get to train on our new eco-cabin, a GREB strawbale mini-house.  Audrée will show you all that she learn during the construction of her own house. She also has gained a lot of experience during training and partnerships with the greatest names in Québec.  She organized a workshop at her house with Sylvie Plaire, and recently partnered with Gabriel Gauthier. This pedigree ensures you a qualified teacher! She already lead several workshops in eco-construction. Especially, led our last lime plaster workshop. You’ll find the video about this workshop below. You can see how a group of dedicated and motivated apprentices ended the course able, on their own, to apply a lime plaster on an exterior wall, for a beautiful and durable finish of ecological buildings.

Green construction is a rising domain! The popularity of eco-building is constantly increasing, as well as it’s market shares. If you want to take part into the adventure, be part of the solution, develop your skills, your passions or talents, then you need to attend! Not only will you learn from a skilled teacher, but you’ll be surrounded by like-minded and like-valued people, in a project dedicated to promote an ecological renewal.

Vidéo de l’atelier l’année dernière:

Course Objective :

Being able to realize this step of the construction in an autonomous manner: preparing the jobsite and the structure to receive the plaster, mixing and applying the coating on the walls, knowing the colorations and finishings that are possible to add to the basic technique.

You’ll leave with a good theoretical knowledge, but more importantly, numerous hours of supervised practice to ensure you get the gestures well and work safely. As you’ll be in a relatively small group, you’ll be able to ask numerous questions and have your technique corrected, as well as practicing each step of the process.

Level required:

We welcome people with any experience, and we will help everybody make progress.

Course language:

The teacher will be giving the course in french, and will be able to translate the difficult parts. However, if you need full time translation, thank you for noticing us. We cannot promise it, but if several students need it, we’ll arrange something.

Accommodation:

The price includes a camping spot (an 8’x10′ platform) for the Friday and Saturday nights. Please bring your own caping gear.

Alternatively, you can reserve one of our eco-cabins, just visit https://terraperma.ca/sejourner/types-hebergement/ or call the reservation center: 1-514-291-6368

Material necessary:

Each student must come with the following gear:

• Construction boots ideally (steel toes) , {we will tolerate solid hiking-like boots, but if you seriously want to do construction at home, we encourage you to invest in a good pair of working boots.}
• Individual safety equipment: (dust mask, safety googles, ear defenders, construction gloves) {For hygiene sake, we cannot lend these equipment, but we’ll be selling a whole kit  on site, we havent determined the price yet}
• Working clothes: Have to be tough, strong, adapted to the weather and you shouldn’t mind dirtying them. They musn’t hang loose at the sleeve, the neck, the belly. Have a spare in case of rain.
• Camping gear: The course spans on two days, a camping spot (8×10 plateform) is included in the course’s price. (Friday and Saturday nights). Bring the camping gear you see fit (tent, mattress, sleeping bag etc…), and extra things for the evening (music instruments, etc… )
• Food for your stay: Meals are not included in the course’s price. You’ll have access to a collective kitchen, equipped with propane stoves and a range of cooking gear. However, depending on the group size, it might become difficult to cook all together. We strongly advise that your meals be prepared in avance. Please be aware that we don’t have access to a fridge. If everybody agrees, it will be possible to proceed with a potluck formula. WE’ll discuss this possibility shortly before the course with all the students.
• Swimsuit and towel: the course price includes access to the whole Terra Perma parc, that includes a private, pristine, protected lake. Bring what you need to enjoy it! Soap, sunscreen and bug reppelant are banned from the lake, please be considerate ????
• Your own construction tools (optional) We’ll gladly lend you our tools!! However, if you have tools you’d like to familiarize yourself with, or that you want to explore deeper, it will be more interesting for you to come with them.

The price includes: 

Participation to the workshop for one person, camping spot, access to a collective kitchen, access to Terra Perma’s parc

Possible supplement: Safety gear kit (disposable dust mask, safety googles, ear plugs (2 pairs), construcion gloves.) (price to be set)

Teacher Audrée Lavallée

Artisane écologique, touche a tout… Principalement éco-designer de vêtements, accessoires et costumes sur mesure sous le nom de Zoluna. Permacultrice dans l’âme, rêveuse d’un monde plus en harmonie avec notre environnement et nos valeurs profondes. Eco-constructrice d’une maison en ballots de paille méthode Greb, l’habitat de l’hêtre, construite avec des matériaux recyclés mixtes, rocket stove, masse thermique, solaire passive, jardins et culture en forêt… Amoureuse des enduits a la chaux et de toutes les possibilités qui s’y rattachent! Passionnée du partage des connaissances qui nous permettent d’être de plus en plus autonomes!

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