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<babalubird@
>
> You bring up something that concerned me, besides the meeting of
> different materials.
>
> With the shrinkage problems of papercrete, what about monopour
> walls? Do these crack like crazy? Worse than using papercrete brick
> and papercrete mortor?
>
> Connie
>
Connie - I don't think in the end that the continuous pour will crack
anymore than the mortared blocks. Also like adobe, it is easily
repaired and seldom structural. I live in an earthship and have dealt
with the cracking issue with moving earth. The correct mixture will
certainly reduce cracking. I question the value of rebar in PC as it
doesn't really adhere to it very well. - also I would have concerns
with load bearing PC structures as I do with strawbales.
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