Welcome to the group.
I'm impressed. I hope you'll keep posting pictures and share your
experiences with all of us.
What is your papercrete mix recipe? Are you using any reinforcement
inside your pours? How thick are they?
It looks like beautiful country surrounding your building site. Can
you describe your climate? What is typical humidity in the summer?
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "fullcycle" <fullcycle@...>
wrote:
>
> Today we awoke to find an invitation to this group. We are two
> Grandmothers, Carrie & Elisia Ross-Stone, we have our own online
> business and we are building a house out of recycled materials --
> primarily papercrete!
>
> We have a little website devoted to our project at
> www.builtfromtrash.com which has not been updated for many months as
> we are heavily into the building season.
>
> We are seeing the "light at the end of the tunnel" and are trying to
> get our (already 3 year) project mostly finished before winter.
>
> We made a mixer using a drill press and food processor blade and
added
> clay and Portland Cement to the paper slurry in a cement mixer.
>
> We are pouring the slurry, bucket-by-bucket into slip forms to
create
> walls and ceilings.
>
> Not the most efficient method but it is the best we could do with
what
> we had and it is working!
>
> Our foundation is packed tires and we are using recycled windows
(and
> some seconds).
>
> At the center of our building project is a 12X50 mobile home we got
> for free.
>
> After the house is finished it will be 24X50 as each papercrete
> "addition" is six feet wide and 50 feet long!
>
> We are opening up the sides of the trailer as the walls and ceilings
> are closed in.
>
> Hard to imagine? Hope you will look at the website.
>
> Our goal is to make a great and super efficient house for free or
next
> to nothing and then teach other people (especially those who do not
> think they will ever own a home) how to do it themselves.
>
> We are making a video, doing the website (will be vastly improved
over
> time), and eventually hope to teach others how to do what we are
doing
> -- only better!
>
> We are very excited to find this group and are looking forward to
> hearing about your projects and sharing and getting ideas!
>
> Carrie & Elisia
>
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