Thursday evening - I've just got back from an all-day job interview to find the outside of the house starting to take shape. The last couple of days R has been putting the battening on and today he started on the Heraklith board, which will hold the render. Suddenly the windows look right - set into the outside wall, as it were. The pictures tell the story:



The Heraklith board - looks a bit like hard Golden Slice ... without the cheese ... or the oats, or... well anyway: wood grated and then squashed together. No unpleasant chemicals.





It is screwed to the battens through a special, and ridiculously expensive, plastic washer.




The individual Heraklith boards are cemented together.




The total effect - almost. There's a bit missing to the right of the window.