Having never built in the pacific NW, I can only speculate. Around here our normal rainfall is only about 8.5" per year and that all happens in a two month "monsoon" season. The last several years have been heavy rain years with much flooding. If you put enough portland cement into your mix, it will do fine in wet areas. My top pent is covered with a layer of 1:1 cement to paper mix, and it shows no deterioration after several years in the weather, unsealed. Other areas have varying amounts of portland cement, down to 0% in some sections.
In your area and climate I would definitely use cement rich mix and seal the outside of any papercrete exposed to the weather.
Spaceman.
Ernie Phelps wrote:
__._,_.___--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "panache_fine_art" <panache_fine_art@...> wrote:I have an acre of dense forest land that I want to build a papercrete dome, my biggest question is if the papercrete can survive the rainy pacific nw? and if so, what should I pay attention to make it work?Spaceman? He's our big dome guy, maybe he can chip in. I can attest that if you mix it right it handles rain just fine. And we have recent posts from folks in WV which is pretty rainy / snowy.
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