Flint is found in abundance in the Chiltern Hills and consequently
has been used for thousands of years for building in this area. It
is an incredibly durable material and will out last any civilisation
that chooses to build with it!
As flint is a natural material it has no impact on the environment
in it's use or disposal. When you also consider how attractive flint
looks in buildings, it truely is a wonderful building material that
is worth the extra time and investment needed, due to the skills required
to build with it.
H.G. Matthews uses chalk flint, field flint and knapped flint (also
known as napped flint).
Flint goes extremely well with brick and can be used decoratively
or structurally on a building. We highly recommend that lime mortar
is used instead of cement mortar on a building as it uses less energy
to produce and allows the flint to be re-used at the end of the building's
life.
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