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Tradical Hemcrete is a unique, highly sustainable construction product for the creation of insulating walls as well as insulation layers for floors and roofs. Tradical Hemcrete is a blend of specially prepared hemp shiv (Tradical HF) and a special lime based binder (Tradical HB). Together these products form a bio-composite building material that can be used both for the creation of buildings that have excellent thermal and acoustic properties as well as creating a healthy living and working environment.

Additionally Tradical Hemcrete has the ability to make an impact on the future of sustainable building. Helping to reverse the damaging effects of greenhouse gases, TradicalHemcrete locks up approximately 110kg of CO2 per m3 of wall and provides one of the best value materials for low impact, sustainable and commercially viable construction.

Properties:

  • Low density

  • High thermal insulation

  • High sound insulation

  • High thermal inertia

  • Good vapour permeability

  • Good flexibility

  • Fire and pest resistant

  • Can significantly reduce CO2 emissions

  • Inherently airtight structures

  • Low waste

Durability

Tradical Hemp Lime products have physical characteristics that can cope with the flexure that naturally occurs in buildings. The products are rodent, mould and fungus resistant and have excellent fire resistance to conform to current building regulations. The lime based binder has the extended durability common to lime construction products that have easily outlasted their designers.  

Aesthetics

Tradical Hemp Lime products provide the possibility for a wide range of excellent quality finishes. The Tradical Hemcrete, render and plaster products can be finished in the normal manner of such products with finishes ranging from as cast to a smooth finish. The Hemp Lime products form an ideal substrate for the application of Tradical renders, plasters and decorative products. The tight quality control regimes in manufacture ensure consistency and conformity in the selected final appearance.  

Sustainability

Tradical Hemp Lime products are among the most ecologically sound of building products. Hemp does not require agrochemicals in its cultivation. The hemp, in common with all similar plants, transforms carbon dioxide during its rapid growth and captures the carbon, releasing the oxygen to atmosphere.

This has an immediate positive effect in achieving the sequestration of the principal greenhouse gas CO2

 

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