Fri 23 October 2015
When the south wall was going to be cob, we were going to embed blue glass bottles in it as a feature. The bottles need to go through the wall, end to end, as little light channels. Despite changing to bales for the wall, we wanted to keep the glass bottle idea. This took some planning.
Some time ago I had bought a glass cutter, so we fished it out and set it up and Dave had a go - creating a rather lovely blue glass vase for me. But in the event, we found that the bottles didn't need to be cut, as the width of the wall was just longer than two of them. So I found a drain pipe piece that was lying around outside and turned out to be a perfect diameter and we constructed a trial light channel.
When the south wall was going to be cob, we were going to embed blue glass bottles in it as a feature. The bottles need to go through the wall, end to end, as little light channels. Despite changing to bales for the wall, we wanted to keep the glass bottle idea. This took some planning.
Some time ago I had bought a glass cutter, so we fished it out and set it up and Dave had a go - creating a rather lovely blue glass vase for me. But in the event, we found that the bottles didn't need to be cut, as the width of the wall was just longer than two of them. So I found a drain pipe piece that was lying around outside and turned out to be a perfect diameter and we constructed a trial light channel.
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